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Exploring evidence-based policing
Money & Business

Exploring evidence-based policing

...data and be more readily quantified this might seem like common sense, but these same approaches have also emerged in a wide range of other fields. This includes areas such as management and education where evidence is often less quantitative – that is to say, reliant on numbers and numeric data – but instead more qualitative and is based more on opinions, impressions...
Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
OpenMinds Talk: Performing Online Live Experiments 24/7: “An Internet of Laboratory Things”
Miscellaneous

OpenMinds Talk: Performing Online Live Experiments 24/7: “An Internet of Laboratory Things”

...analysis can be conducted from afar through keyboards and screens How to share the thrill of real time observing of the night sky and how to do it collaboratively without colocation How professional engineers and scientists might benefit from online access to instrumentation for training and development For almost half a century The Open University has championed the...
The science of chocolate
Health, Sports & Psychology

The science of chocolate

...analysis. However, it only happened during the first two weeks of dark chocolate consumption; after that the effect was not apparent. But 100g of dark chocolate a day for two weeks is a lot of chocolate! As 100g of dark chocolate contains about 550 kcal, this is roughly a quarter of an average person’s daily calorific requirement of 2000 kcal for a woman and 2500 kcal...
Professionals negotiating different ways of knowing
Education & Development

Professionals negotiating different ways of knowing

...data to rigorous, systematic analysis reveals contexts and influences to which as a professional she was completely oblivious. Kathy illustrates well the value of looking at the everyday familiar with fresh academic eyes. One thing that happens to a number of professional doctorates is that their sense of who they are changes. They assume a new identity. Dr Aubrey-Smith...
Should we test drugs on pregnant women?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Should we test drugs on pregnant women?

...data available about drug safety during pregnancy, many of these women will face a stark choice: use medications that have unknown effects on their developing children, or forgo treatments that are crucial to their own health. In the autumn of 2013, Heidi Walker, a lab technician who lives in Nottingham, England, was hospitalised for severe depression. Over the course of...
Decolonising computing?
Digital & Computing

Decolonising computing?

...Data / datafication. In both contexts, my concern has been to unpack how the phenomena are discursively constructed vis-à-vis geopolitical, body-political and other issues. With regards to Internet governance (Ali, 2018a), I have drawn attention to three matters that I suggest are ‘entangled’ with the issue of ‘alignment’ which I maintain constitutes a preeminent...
Preparing for your digital life in the 21st Century
Science, Maths & Technology

Preparing for your digital life in the 21st Century

...data as sequences of numbers. Computers use digital technologies; so the for benefit of this unit the term digital life refers to the influence of computers, in a wide variety of forms, on the world. In this unit you will learn a little about the historical development of computers and their role in today’s society, and you will consider examples of digital technologies...
Why the economy can't explain Trump or Brexit
Society, Politics & Law

Why the economy can't explain Trump or Brexit

...analysis). When it comes to Brexit or Trump, think successful plumber, not starving artist or temporary lecturer. [Graph illustrating point described in text] Some might say that even though these populist voters aren’t poor, they really, actually, surely, naturally, are concerned about their economic welfare. Well, let’s take a look at the top concerns of Trump...