ISBN:
9781351523844
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (viii, 263 Seiten)
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illustrations, text file, PDF
Series Statement:
Comparative policy evaluation 24
Series Statement:
Taylor and Francis ebooks
Series Statement:
Comparative policy evaluation
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Cyber society, big data, and evaluation
DDC:
303.4833
Keywords:
Big data Social aspects
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Social sciences Research
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Policy sciences Statistical methods
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Quantitative research
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Evaluation research (Social action programs)
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Big data Social aspects
;
Social sciences Research
;
Policy sciences Statistical methods
;
Big data ; Social aspects
;
Social sciences ; Research
;
Quantitative research
;
Evaluation research (Social action programs)
;
Policy sciences ; Statistical methods
Abstract:
chapter 1 Cyber Society, Big Data, and Evaluation: An Introduction -- chapter 2 What Is Big Data? Frédéric Lefebvre-Naré -- chapter 3 Th e Current Use of Big Data in Evaluation Steven Højlund -- chapter 4 Getting Started with Big Data: Th e Promises and Challenges of Evaluating Health-Care Quality -- chapter 5 Big Data, Real-World Events, and Evaluations Frank Willemsen -- chapter 6 Using Big Data to Study Digital Piracy and the Copyright Alert System -- chapter 7 Protecting America’s Biggest Sporting Spectacle Jonathan D. Breul -- chapter 8 Keeping Traffi c and Transit Passengers Moving—Th e Use of Big Data -- chapter 9 Exploring Big (Data) Opportunities: Th e Case of the Center for Innovation through Data Intelligence (CIDI), New York City -- chapter 10 Using “Big Data” for Equity-Focused Evaluation— Undiferstanding and Utilizing the Dynamics of Data Ecosystems -- chapter 11 Real-Time Monitoring and Evaluation—Emerging News as Predictive Process Using Big Data-Based Approach -- chapter 12 Big Bang or Big Bust? Th e Role and Implications of Big Data in Evaluation -- chapter 13 Cyber Society, Big Data, and Evaluation: A Future Perspective
Abstract:
"We are living in a cyber society. Mobile devices, social media, the Internet, crime cameras, and other diverse sources can be pulled together to form massive datasets, known as big data, which make it possible to learn things we could not begin to comprehend otherwise. While private companies are using this macroscopic tool, policy-makers and evaluators have been slower to adopt big data to make and evaluate public policy. Cyber Society, Big Data, and Evaluation shows ways big data is now being used in policy evaluation and discusses how it will transform the role of evaluators in the future. Arguing that big data will play a permanent and growing role in policy evaluation, especially since results may be delivered almost in real time, the contributors declare that the evaluation community must rise to the challenge or risk being marginalized. This volume suggests that evaluators must redefine their tools in relation to big data, obtain competencies necessary to work with it, and collaborate with professionals already experienced in using big data. By adding evaluators' expertise, for example, in theory- driven evaluation, using repositories, making value judgements, and applying findings, policy-makers and evaluators can come to make better-informed decisions and policies."--Provided by publisher
DOI:
10.4324/9780203793909
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