Data in Society
Challenging Statistics in an Age of Globalisation
Herausgeber: Evans, Jeff; Southall, Humphrey; Ruane, Sally
Data in Society
Challenging Statistics in an Age of Globalisation
Herausgeber: Evans, Jeff; Southall, Humphrey; Ruane, Sally
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This book analyses societal trends and controversies related to developments in data ownership, access, construction, dissemination and interpretation, looking at the ways that society interacts with and uses statistical data.
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This book analyses societal trends and controversies related to developments in data ownership, access, construction, dissemination and interpretation, looking at the ways that society interacts with and uses statistical data.
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- Verlag: Bristol University Press
- Seitenzahl: 414
- Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juli 2019
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 23mm
- Gewicht: 626g
- ISBN-13: 9781447348221
- ISBN-10: 1447348222
- Artikelnr.: 54682101
- Herstellerkennzeichnung
- Libri GmbH
- Europaallee 1
- 36244 Bad Hersfeld
- gpsr@libri.de
- Verlag: Bristol University Press
- Seitenzahl: 414
- Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juli 2019
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 23mm
- Gewicht: 626g
- ISBN-13: 9781447348221
- ISBN-10: 1447348222
- Artikelnr.: 54682101
- Herstellerkennzeichnung
- Libri GmbH
- Europaallee 1
- 36244 Bad Hersfeld
- gpsr@libri.de
Jeff Evans is Professor Emeritus in the Faculty of Science and Technology at Middlesex University, UK. He researches the public understanding of statistics, and influences on adults' mathematical learning. Sally Ruane is Reader in Social Policy and the Director of the Health Policy Research Unit in the School of Applied Social Sciences at De Montfort University, UK. Humphrey Southall is Professor of Historical Geography at the University of Portsmouth, UK, and directs the Great Britain Historical GIS. He researches the origins of Britain's north-south divide and promotes public engagement with historical statistics.
Book Introduction ~ Humphrey Southall, Jeff Evans and Sally Ruane; 1: How
Data are Changing; Introduction ~ Humphrey Southall and Jeff Evans;
Statistical work: the changing occupational landscape ~ Kevin McConway; The
creation and use of big administrative data ~ Harvey Goldstein and Ruth
Gilbert Data Analytics ~ Ifan Shepherd and Gary Hearne; Social Media Data ~
Adrian Tear and Humphrey Southall; 2: Counting in a Globalised world;
Introduction ~ Sally Ruane and Jeff Evans; Adult Skills Surveys and
Transnational Organisations: Globalising Educational Policy ~ Jeff Evans;
Poverty and health care surveys in the Global South: Towards making valid
estimates ~ Roy Carr-Hill; Counting the Population in Need of International
Protection Globally ~ Brad Blitz, Alessio D'Angelo and Eleonore Kofman; Tax
justice and the challenges of measuring illicit financial flows ~ Richard
Murphy; 3: The Changing Role of the State; Introduction ~ Sally Ruane and
Humphrey Southall; The control and 'fitness for purpose' of UK official
statistics ~ David Rhind; The Statistics of Devolution ~ David Byrne;
Welfare reform: national policies with local impacts ~ Christina Beatty and
Steve Fothergill; Social insecurity and the changing role of the (welfare)
state: Public perceptions, social attitudes and political action ~
Christopher Deeming and Ron Johnston; Access to data and NHS privatisation:
reducing public accountability ~ Sally Ruane; 4: Economic Life;
Introduction ~ Humphrey Southall, Sally Ruane and Jeff Evans; The
'distribution question': the role of statistical analysis in measuring and
evaluating trends in inequality ~ Stewart Lansley; Labour market statistics
~ Paul Bivand; The financial system ~ Rebecca Boden; The difficulty of
building comprehensive tax avoidance data ~ Prem Sikka; Tax and spend
decisions: did austerity improve financial numeracy and literacy? ~ David
Walker; 5: Inequalities in Health and Well-being; Introduction ~ Sally
Ruane and Humphrey Southall; Health Divides ~ Anonymous; Measuring Social
Wellbeing ~ Roy Carr-Hill; Re-engineering health policy research to measure
equity impacts ~ Tim Doran and Richard Cookson; The Generation Game: Ending
the phony information war between young and old ~ Jay Ginn and Neil
Duncan-Jordan; 6: Advancing social progress through critical statistical
literacy; Introduction ~ Jeff Evans, Humphrey Southall and Sally Ruane; The
Radical Statistics Group: Using Statistics for Progressive Social Change ~
Jeff Evans and Ludi Simpson; Lyme disease politics and evidence-based
policy-making in the UK ~ Kate Bloor; Counting the uncounted: contestations
over casualisation data in Australian universities ~ Nour Dados, James
Goodman and Keiko Yasukawa; The quantitative crisis in UK Sociology ~
Malcolm Williams, Luke Sloan and Charlotte Brookfield; Critical Statistical
Literacy and Interactive Data Visualisations ~ Jim Ridgway, James
Nicholson, Sinclair Sutherland and Spencer Hedger; Full Fact ~ Amy Sippitt;
What a difference a dataset makes? Data journalism and/as data activism ~
Jonathan Gray and Liliana Bounegru; Book Epilogue .
Data are Changing; Introduction ~ Humphrey Southall and Jeff Evans;
Statistical work: the changing occupational landscape ~ Kevin McConway; The
creation and use of big administrative data ~ Harvey Goldstein and Ruth
Gilbert Data Analytics ~ Ifan Shepherd and Gary Hearne; Social Media Data ~
Adrian Tear and Humphrey Southall; 2: Counting in a Globalised world;
Introduction ~ Sally Ruane and Jeff Evans; Adult Skills Surveys and
Transnational Organisations: Globalising Educational Policy ~ Jeff Evans;
Poverty and health care surveys in the Global South: Towards making valid
estimates ~ Roy Carr-Hill; Counting the Population in Need of International
Protection Globally ~ Brad Blitz, Alessio D'Angelo and Eleonore Kofman; Tax
justice and the challenges of measuring illicit financial flows ~ Richard
Murphy; 3: The Changing Role of the State; Introduction ~ Sally Ruane and
Humphrey Southall; The control and 'fitness for purpose' of UK official
statistics ~ David Rhind; The Statistics of Devolution ~ David Byrne;
Welfare reform: national policies with local impacts ~ Christina Beatty and
Steve Fothergill; Social insecurity and the changing role of the (welfare)
state: Public perceptions, social attitudes and political action ~
Christopher Deeming and Ron Johnston; Access to data and NHS privatisation:
reducing public accountability ~ Sally Ruane; 4: Economic Life;
Introduction ~ Humphrey Southall, Sally Ruane and Jeff Evans; The
'distribution question': the role of statistical analysis in measuring and
evaluating trends in inequality ~ Stewart Lansley; Labour market statistics
~ Paul Bivand; The financial system ~ Rebecca Boden; The difficulty of
building comprehensive tax avoidance data ~ Prem Sikka; Tax and spend
decisions: did austerity improve financial numeracy and literacy? ~ David
Walker; 5: Inequalities in Health and Well-being; Introduction ~ Sally
Ruane and Humphrey Southall; Health Divides ~ Anonymous; Measuring Social
Wellbeing ~ Roy Carr-Hill; Re-engineering health policy research to measure
equity impacts ~ Tim Doran and Richard Cookson; The Generation Game: Ending
the phony information war between young and old ~ Jay Ginn and Neil
Duncan-Jordan; 6: Advancing social progress through critical statistical
literacy; Introduction ~ Jeff Evans, Humphrey Southall and Sally Ruane; The
Radical Statistics Group: Using Statistics for Progressive Social Change ~
Jeff Evans and Ludi Simpson; Lyme disease politics and evidence-based
policy-making in the UK ~ Kate Bloor; Counting the uncounted: contestations
over casualisation data in Australian universities ~ Nour Dados, James
Goodman and Keiko Yasukawa; The quantitative crisis in UK Sociology ~
Malcolm Williams, Luke Sloan and Charlotte Brookfield; Critical Statistical
Literacy and Interactive Data Visualisations ~ Jim Ridgway, James
Nicholson, Sinclair Sutherland and Spencer Hedger; Full Fact ~ Amy Sippitt;
What a difference a dataset makes? Data journalism and/as data activism ~
Jonathan Gray and Liliana Bounegru; Book Epilogue .
Book Introduction ~ Humphrey Southall, Jeff Evans and Sally Ruane; 1: How
Data are Changing; Introduction ~ Humphrey Southall and Jeff Evans;
Statistical work: the changing occupational landscape ~ Kevin McConway; The
creation and use of big administrative data ~ Harvey Goldstein and Ruth
Gilbert Data Analytics ~ Ifan Shepherd and Gary Hearne; Social Media Data ~
Adrian Tear and Humphrey Southall; 2: Counting in a Globalised world;
Introduction ~ Sally Ruane and Jeff Evans; Adult Skills Surveys and
Transnational Organisations: Globalising Educational Policy ~ Jeff Evans;
Poverty and health care surveys in the Global South: Towards making valid
estimates ~ Roy Carr-Hill; Counting the Population in Need of International
Protection Globally ~ Brad Blitz, Alessio D'Angelo and Eleonore Kofman; Tax
justice and the challenges of measuring illicit financial flows ~ Richard
Murphy; 3: The Changing Role of the State; Introduction ~ Sally Ruane and
Humphrey Southall; The control and 'fitness for purpose' of UK official
statistics ~ David Rhind; The Statistics of Devolution ~ David Byrne;
Welfare reform: national policies with local impacts ~ Christina Beatty and
Steve Fothergill; Social insecurity and the changing role of the (welfare)
state: Public perceptions, social attitudes and political action ~
Christopher Deeming and Ron Johnston; Access to data and NHS privatisation:
reducing public accountability ~ Sally Ruane; 4: Economic Life;
Introduction ~ Humphrey Southall, Sally Ruane and Jeff Evans; The
'distribution question': the role of statistical analysis in measuring and
evaluating trends in inequality ~ Stewart Lansley; Labour market statistics
~ Paul Bivand; The financial system ~ Rebecca Boden; The difficulty of
building comprehensive tax avoidance data ~ Prem Sikka; Tax and spend
decisions: did austerity improve financial numeracy and literacy? ~ David
Walker; 5: Inequalities in Health and Well-being; Introduction ~ Sally
Ruane and Humphrey Southall; Health Divides ~ Anonymous; Measuring Social
Wellbeing ~ Roy Carr-Hill; Re-engineering health policy research to measure
equity impacts ~ Tim Doran and Richard Cookson; The Generation Game: Ending
the phony information war between young and old ~ Jay Ginn and Neil
Duncan-Jordan; 6: Advancing social progress through critical statistical
literacy; Introduction ~ Jeff Evans, Humphrey Southall and Sally Ruane; The
Radical Statistics Group: Using Statistics for Progressive Social Change ~
Jeff Evans and Ludi Simpson; Lyme disease politics and evidence-based
policy-making in the UK ~ Kate Bloor; Counting the uncounted: contestations
over casualisation data in Australian universities ~ Nour Dados, James
Goodman and Keiko Yasukawa; The quantitative crisis in UK Sociology ~
Malcolm Williams, Luke Sloan and Charlotte Brookfield; Critical Statistical
Literacy and Interactive Data Visualisations ~ Jim Ridgway, James
Nicholson, Sinclair Sutherland and Spencer Hedger; Full Fact ~ Amy Sippitt;
What a difference a dataset makes? Data journalism and/as data activism ~
Jonathan Gray and Liliana Bounegru; Book Epilogue .
Data are Changing; Introduction ~ Humphrey Southall and Jeff Evans;
Statistical work: the changing occupational landscape ~ Kevin McConway; The
creation and use of big administrative data ~ Harvey Goldstein and Ruth
Gilbert Data Analytics ~ Ifan Shepherd and Gary Hearne; Social Media Data ~
Adrian Tear and Humphrey Southall; 2: Counting in a Globalised world;
Introduction ~ Sally Ruane and Jeff Evans; Adult Skills Surveys and
Transnational Organisations: Globalising Educational Policy ~ Jeff Evans;
Poverty and health care surveys in the Global South: Towards making valid
estimates ~ Roy Carr-Hill; Counting the Population in Need of International
Protection Globally ~ Brad Blitz, Alessio D'Angelo and Eleonore Kofman; Tax
justice and the challenges of measuring illicit financial flows ~ Richard
Murphy; 3: The Changing Role of the State; Introduction ~ Sally Ruane and
Humphrey Southall; The control and 'fitness for purpose' of UK official
statistics ~ David Rhind; The Statistics of Devolution ~ David Byrne;
Welfare reform: national policies with local impacts ~ Christina Beatty and
Steve Fothergill; Social insecurity and the changing role of the (welfare)
state: Public perceptions, social attitudes and political action ~
Christopher Deeming and Ron Johnston; Access to data and NHS privatisation:
reducing public accountability ~ Sally Ruane; 4: Economic Life;
Introduction ~ Humphrey Southall, Sally Ruane and Jeff Evans; The
'distribution question': the role of statistical analysis in measuring and
evaluating trends in inequality ~ Stewart Lansley; Labour market statistics
~ Paul Bivand; The financial system ~ Rebecca Boden; The difficulty of
building comprehensive tax avoidance data ~ Prem Sikka; Tax and spend
decisions: did austerity improve financial numeracy and literacy? ~ David
Walker; 5: Inequalities in Health and Well-being; Introduction ~ Sally
Ruane and Humphrey Southall; Health Divides ~ Anonymous; Measuring Social
Wellbeing ~ Roy Carr-Hill; Re-engineering health policy research to measure
equity impacts ~ Tim Doran and Richard Cookson; The Generation Game: Ending
the phony information war between young and old ~ Jay Ginn and Neil
Duncan-Jordan; 6: Advancing social progress through critical statistical
literacy; Introduction ~ Jeff Evans, Humphrey Southall and Sally Ruane; The
Radical Statistics Group: Using Statistics for Progressive Social Change ~
Jeff Evans and Ludi Simpson; Lyme disease politics and evidence-based
policy-making in the UK ~ Kate Bloor; Counting the uncounted: contestations
over casualisation data in Australian universities ~ Nour Dados, James
Goodman and Keiko Yasukawa; The quantitative crisis in UK Sociology ~
Malcolm Williams, Luke Sloan and Charlotte Brookfield; Critical Statistical
Literacy and Interactive Data Visualisations ~ Jim Ridgway, James
Nicholson, Sinclair Sutherland and Spencer Hedger; Full Fact ~ Amy Sippitt;
What a difference a dataset makes? Data journalism and/as data activism ~
Jonathan Gray and Liliana Bounegru; Book Epilogue .