Jennifer Patiño
A new study at UW-Madison by Evan Polman, associate professor of marketing at the Wisconsin School of Business, Paul Hoban, assistant professor of marketing at the Wisconsin School of Business, and Lyn Van Swol, professor of communication science in the Department of Communication Arts examined motivations for unethical behavior using Big Data – a data set comprised of more than 330,000 observations from NFL games.
In a recent piece in Eos, “Data Sets Are Foundational to Research. Why Don’t We Cite Them?” researchers Suresh Vannan, Robert R. Downs, Walt Meier, Bruce E. Wilson, and Irina V. Gerasimov argue for the need for better, more specific, data citation practices and wide adoption of data set DOI assignments.
Corpus Callosum, Ebling Library’s new art journal featuring the art work of faculty, staff, and students in the health sciences at UW-Madison has released its inaugural issue.
Maij Xyooj
Big Data in health care is growing and is being used for health data models. The Hastings Center recently announced that they are building a framework for biomedical data scientists to use to help ensure that “they document key decisions and consider the potential ethical and societal consequences of those decisions during model development.”
A blog from Health Affairs discusses the challenges and opportunities of open data in mitigating the COVID-19 pandemic.