Data science & policy research at the Urban Institute : clusters, scraping & data visualization.

Graham MacDonald, Chief Data Scientist at the Urban Institute, discusses data science and policy research using clustering techniques, data scraping, and data visualization, including how data scientists can support social science researchers, his journey into data visualization, the use of big data...

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Other Authors:	MacDonald, Graham (Speaker)
Format:	Video
Language:	English
Language Notes:	Closed-captions in English.
Published:	London : SAGE Publications Ltd, 2019.
Subjects:	Big data. Data mining. Quantitative research. Automatic data collection systems. Social sciences > Research > Data processing. Information visualization. Cluster analysis. Data Mining Données volumineuses. Exploration de données (Informatique) Recherche quantitative. Collecte automatique des données. Sciences sociales > Recherche > Informatique. Visualisation de l'information. Classification automatique (Statistique) Automatic data collection systems Big data Cluster analysis Data mining Information visualization Quantitative research Social sciences > Research > Data processing
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Summary:	Graham MacDonald, Chief Data Scientist at the Urban Institute, discusses data science and policy research using clustering techniques, data scraping, and data visualization, including how data scientists can support social science researchers, his journey into data visualization, the use of big data for new insights, skill sets to work with big data, the importance of data visualization at the Urban Institute, examples of projects using data science, and collaboration between social science researchers and data scientists.
Physical Description:	1 online resource (1 video file (00:21:07)) : sound, colour
ISBN:	9781526499981 1526499983