The Power of Data | LSE Festival Event
17 June 2023
Speakers: James Fransham, data journalist, The Economist; Alexandra Gomes Research Fellow, LSE Cities; Angela Spatharou Senior Partner and the EMEA Leader, Healthcare & Life Sciences, IBM Consulting.
Chair: Ken Benoit, Director of the Data Science Institute and Professor of Computational Social Science in the Department of Methodology, LSE
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How Web 3.0 Technology and Data Policy Combine to Promote Data Sovereignty, Privacy, and Trust
25 May 2023
Speakers: Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web; Ken Benoit, Director of the Data Science Institute and Professor of Computational Social Science in the Department of Methodology, LSE
Chair: Minouche Shafik, President and Vice Chancellor of the London School of Economics and Political Science
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Follow the Science? Data, Models and Decisions in the 21st Century
24 January 2023
Speakers: Professor Diane Coyle, Bennett Professor of Public Policy at the University of Cambridge; Dr Stephanie Hare, Researcher, broadcaster and author focused on technology, politics and history; Dr Erica Thompson, Senior Policy Fellow in Ethics of Modelling and Simulation at the LSE Data Science Institute, funded by a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship.
Chair: Baroness Minouche Shafik, President and Vice Chancellor of the London School of Economics and Political Science.
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Data Science and the Future of Social Science
21 September 2022
Data science has revolutionised the social sciences at the same time as industries and academia are being transformed by the availability of big data, coupled with massive increases in computing power.
Speakers: Caroline Gorski, Chief Executive, R² Factory at Rolls-Royce; Ming Tang, Chief Data and Analytics Officer, NHS England; Professor Helen Margetts OBE FBA, Professor of Internet and Society at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford; Dr Stefan Hunt, Chief Data and Technology Insights Officer, Competition and Markets Authority .
Chair: Ken Benoit, Director of the Data Science Institute and Professor of Computational Social Science in the Department of Methodology, LSE
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