05/08/2012One Race, Every Medalist Ever | Kevin Qualey and Graham Roberts
This video compares Usain Bolt, current world record holder in the men’s 100 ...
07/04/2010Prayer Companion | Interaction Research Studio, Goldsmiths
Developed by the interaction research studio of Goldsmiths, University of Lon-...
30/06/2013Mapping the Republic of Letters | Humanities + Design by CESTA
Before email, the world of scholarship relied on its own networks, which facil...
08/05/2014A new era of knowledge | Interviews
La transformació del periodisme des dels anys 50 i 60 ha generat noves formes...
09/03/2012Bloomberg billionaires | Bloomberg Visual Data
The Bloomberg Billionaires index, which launched in 2012 and tracks the 300 ri...
01/05/201423andMe experience | CCCB
The DNA Testing Kit is a product that is commercialised online and allows us t...
04/12/2013_BIG BANG DATA
_BIG BANG DATA is an exhibition about the ‘datafication’ of the world curate...
29/05/2014España en llamas | CIVIO
Why does woodland burn? Does anyone pay for it? Every summer thousands of fore...
30/06/2012Stranger Visions | Heather Dewey-Hagborg
In Stranger Visions the artist creates sculptures of human faces based on ge- ...
18/02/2014Winning Formula | Near Future Laboratory
Winning Formula, is project by Near Future Laboratory which takes the form o...
28/02/2012New York Health Department Restaurant Ratings Map | Jeremy White
The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene performs unannounced...
09/06/2004Cinema Redux | Brendan Dawes
Cinema Redux processes the contents of a film to generate an 8 x 6-pixel image...
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A new era of knowledge
A NEW ERA OF KNOWLEDGE
The revolution of disciplines after Big DataFrom professional football and literary studies to crime prevention, today the fields of knowledge that have been profoundly changed by access to big data sets are countless. Data science methodologies are opening up new paths in numerous disciplines creating specialised fields that are associated with new professional profiles.
Thus, today, in urban planning, we talk of smart city technologies; in the press, of data journalism, and in departments of history, of digital humanities.
The first wave of data-driven products is also generating tensions and rifts in the respective industries, as is happening with the highly controversial personalised genome analysis services.