Exploring societal challenges through library data
From film credits to library catalogues, the creative industries are constantly, passively generating rich textual data. Could this data be used to shed new lig...
A little greyer and a bit more rectangular?
Using online museum collections to study the design of everyday objects A little greyer? We tracked the colour of objects overtime and found a substantial rise ...
Getting creative with big data to examine gender inequality
The term “big data” may bring to mind swaths of private information held by tech companies. But lots of big data is, in fact, visible to all – we just may...
Press release: How big data and machine learning can be used to generate more meaningful insights on gender inequality
Measuring gender imbalances in reporting on the creative industries Researchers analyse over half a million articles published across almost 20 years to examine...