In the information age, there’s increasing amounts of data availabe:
Could society be placing too much reliance on the quantity of information at its disposal when it should be equally focused on its accuracy?
subject of a conference on 5th November
The Big Data event at the British Academy, due to take place on 5 November, will assemble academic researchers and statisticians to discuss how best to use the increasingly accessible sets of public data on anything from education to road safety.
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