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For researchers who would like to know more about curating big data, the UK Data Service team of experts are on hand to help. And given that the principles of curating all data, be it big or small, are the same, a good starting point is the publication Managing and Sharing Research Data: A Guide to Good Practice by Louise Corti, Veerle Van den Eynden, Libby Bishop and Matthew Woollard.
The authors of this article, Louise Corti and Dr Sharon Bolton, ran a session on Managing, curating and publishing data at the Essex Big data and Analytics Summer School 2015, data curation can address some of the problems surrounding the use of big data. A similar course will be run in September 2016. Slides from the 2015 event are available A further challenge is that ‘traditional’ sources of socio-economic data become less reliable and/or less accessible. The consultation for brazil rcs data the 2021 UK census proposes the exploration of administrative data (really no more than another term for big data) to supplement the 2021 census. The exploration of this topic is warmly welcomed, but these sources should not be seen as the magic bullet to reduce costs. Obviously data collection costs might fall, but data analysis costs may rise, and the richness of available data may become diluted. Perhaps less important, but not a negligible problem will be access by a third party. The UK has one of the longest running and most successful data archives which make data accessible to researchers. The replacement of traditional surveys with less robust big data may, for various rights-related reasons, reduce the opportunity for reuse. We note that government has been keen on the idea of increasing efficiency by sharing and linking administrative data but we are still at a very early stage in effective research access to and linkage of these extraordinary well-regulated forms of data; any policy developments towards the further use of big data needs to be cognizant of the fact that effective access and use of existing administrative data and other types of ‘big data’ is still far from being achieved. So, again, here are both opportunities and challenges for data service professionals.
For researchers who would like to know more about curating big data, the UK Data Service team of experts are on hand to help. And given that the principles of curating all data, be it big or small, are the same, a good starting point is the publication Managing and Sharing Research Data: A Guide to Good Practice by Louise Corti, Veerle Van den Eynden, Libby Bishop and Matthew Woollard.
The authors of this article, Louise Corti and Dr Sharon Bolton, ran a session on Managing, curating and publishing data at the Essex Big data and Analytics Summer School 2015, data curation can address some of the problems surrounding the use of big data. A similar course will be run in September 2016. Slides from the 2015 event are available A further challenge is that ‘traditional’ sources of socio-economic data become less reliable and/or less accessible. The consultation for brazil rcs data the 2021 UK census proposes the exploration of administrative data (really no more than another term for big data) to supplement the 2021 census. The exploration of this topic is warmly welcomed, but these sources should not be seen as the magic bullet to reduce costs. Obviously data collection costs might fall, but data analysis costs may rise, and the richness of available data may become diluted. Perhaps less important, but not a negligible problem will be access by a third party. The UK has one of the longest running and most successful data archives which make data accessible to researchers. The replacement of traditional surveys with less robust big data may, for various rights-related reasons, reduce the opportunity for reuse. We note that government has been keen on the idea of increasing efficiency by sharing and linking administrative data but we are still at a very early stage in effective research access to and linkage of these extraordinary well-regulated forms of data; any policy developments towards the further use of big data needs to be cognizant of the fact that effective access and use of existing administrative data and other types of ‘big data’ is still far from being achieved. So, again, here are both opportunities and challenges for data service professionals.