Data Intensive Research Graham Room Social and Policy Sciences – University of Bath

Social and Policy Sciences at Bath Link and interrogate Administrative Data sets Scrape and interrogate data from web New ways to answer old questions about poverty, mobility, inequality Lynne Prince Cooke, Paul Gregg, Matt Dickson Investigate new forms of digital domination (and emancipation?) Shamel Ahmed – digital trade agenda Susan Johnson – political economy of digital data markets Dynamics of co-evolving networks Mathematical model -- statistical indicators -- empirical data sets

Dynamics of Cumulative Innovation in Complex Social Systems (DCICSS) Mathematical Model of co-evolving networks Jain and Krishna http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/nlin/pdf/0210/0210070v1.pdf Empirical data sets Patents as proxy for technological innovation Mergers and acquisitions as proxy for building capabilities of businesses Systemic risk in financial institutions Co-evolving welfare systems Cities and industrial clusters Statistical tools to probe self-reinforcing synergies within datasets Illuminate scope for policy interventions http://opus.bath.ac.uk/55142/