We are dwelling in the Big Data age. The diversity of the uses
of Big Data unleashes limitless possibilities. Many people are talking
about ways to use Big Data to track the collective human behaviours,
monitor electoral popularity, and predict financial fluctuations in
stock markets, etc. Big Data reveals both challenges and opportunities,
which are not only related to technology but also to human itself. This
talk will cover various current topics and trends in Big Data research.
The speaker will share his relevant experiences on how to use analytics
tools to obtain key metrics on online social networks, as well as
present the challenges of Big Data analytics.
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Bio: Ning Wang (Ph.D) works as Researcher at the Oxford Internet
Institute. His research is driven by a deep interest in analysing a wide
range of sociotechnical problems by exploiting Big Data approaches, with
the hope that this work could contribute to the intersection of social
behavior and computational systems.