DATA FOR POLICY: DATA SCIENCE AND BIG DATA IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR
- indotplace
- Dec 10, 2016
- 1 min read
INNAR LIIV
How can big data and data science help policy-making? This question has recently gained increasing attention. Both the European Commission and the White House have endorsed the use of data for evidence-based policy making.
Still, a gap remains between theory and practice. In this blog post, I make a number of recommendations for systematic development paths.
RESEARCH TRENDS SHAPING DATA FOR POLICY
‘Data for policy’ as an academic field is still in its infancy. A typology of the field’s foci and research areas are summarised in the figure below.
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