Tag: big data

  • In their spare time

    Saw this recently on Legal Futures, one of my favourite online sources of professional legal news in E+W: Law students build app aimed at helping crime victims My eye was caught by this sentence: Mr Bull, LawBot’s founder and managing director, who is German and speaks six languages, wrote the software. So just to slow…

  • Our data: free and open-access

    Recently I was trawling a publisher’s website for a technology article (Springer, since you ask), with no-access pages and tariff barriers all around me, when a cheeky wee popup asked me: Would you use a data collaboration website to share your research data with colleagues? Yes, publicly Yes, but only privately No I don’t have…

  • Modestly big data for legal education

    The Human Face of Big Data has been splashed across screens & newsprint the last few days — see The Guardian’s excellent Datablog article, and Scientific American for summaries of what it’s about.  According to Rick Smolens, one of the two founders, it will last for two months, asks respondents 60 questions via a mobile…