.... Their remit was to deliver personalised interventions with new students that ensured those students re-engaged with their university experience. The focus was on improving retention through peer-to-peer conversations and saw the SSOs triangulating information drawn from learning analytics data, institutional...

... is that of market indices. These play a key role in global markets, being illustrative for the data world we live in. Indices are regulatory, epistemic, commercial, and automated objects. These features have to be simultaneously produced and maintained. Based on ethnographic observations in a data analytics firm, I...

... dominant myths: first, that most people on Cockatoo Island were transported convicts; second, the assumption Cockatoo Island’s inmates were the ‘worst’ kind of criminals; and third, the island’s association with bushranging, an antipodean form of highway robbery. Bringing a data-driven approach to archival...

.... Both the staff and the customers provide the data. Following that, the data were examined using a five-point Likert scale and a thorough proportion to ascertain the influence of BI on banking system affairs. The results confirmed a number of practices that business intelligence benefits the financial...

... development well beyond 2030. Sustainable Development Goals human rights data democracy delivering paradigm shift experiential learning Why would or should the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and SDG 16 in particular (“peace, justice, and strong institutions”) be of interest to scholars researching...

...As the foregoing discussion of data initiatives and innovation illustrates and numerous studies confirm, closing the justice gap cannot be left to justice institutions alone. Collaboration among a wide range of justice sector actors and between them and other governmental and nongovernmental actors...

... in the State’s representation, to whatever treaty body, and to research a particular issue, or potentially a wide range of issues, using both official and unofficial data. An effective shadow report will both contextualize and augment. The process of writing it will involve challenging the veracity of objective...

... Sustainable Development Goals city-academic partnerships localization task forces data Introduction: The SDGs and Human Rights at the Local Level Launched in 2018, the SDGs in L.A. is a multi-phase, multilateral project aimed at adopting and adapting the Goals across Los Angeles. It originated...

...The successful application of automation relies heavily on data, but equally important is connectivity to that data to ensure it can be accessed by those that need it at the right time. Whilst common data environments are invaluable in providing centralised access to share current information...

... in the book have in common is their reliance on data. Data comes from many sources, whether dynamic or static, but activities that can benefit the majority of technologies include structuring and managing data, whether that be product or service data, requirements or responses. Structuring data...

... and achieve ‘success’. This chapter is focused on evaluative data and the stories that data and its production make (in)visible and the excess data that gets left behind. I document the ways that health interventions use evidence and the shifts in evaluation towards making sense of the complex contexts...

... in Kenya. At the time of writing, the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) and the WG are near completion of a survey module on the school environment that can be included in household surveys. Administrative Data Another readily available and useful source of data on persons...

...CHANGE recommendations data intersectionality longitudinal Key Findings Definition and Measurement A working class academic (WCA) identity is nuanced, with elements such as cultural background, financial challenges, and the subjective awareness of one’s class identity within the academic...

... in the process of developing such a framework is the absence of empirical data and experience from the implementation of this emerging technology. This chapter outlines the possible impacts of AVs and discusses their uncertainty and trade-offs in relation to sustainable urban development. The categorisation...

...Abstract The aim of this chapter is to investigate the immigrant women entrepreneurship phenomenon in Italy by focusing on the Polish experience. Stemming from the most current data on immigration in Italy and on immigrant women entrepreneurs and women-led firms, by analysing the regions in which...

... juxtaposition between the “data power” – as emerging from recent cases (Section 2) – that dominant tech companies enjoy and the concept of consumer sovereignty (Section 3) lies at the core of the proposal's attempt to identify digital core platforms as market gatekeepers. Accordingly, this chapter critically...

...Abstract This chapter examines the shifting significance of data ownership and athlete rights as they pertain to the growth and expansion of the global sports gambling industry. It provides a nuanced overview of the ‘datafication’ of society, tracing how the omnipresent embrace of digital...

...-term literacy department chair, to proclaim “data is [G]od.” Wilson's emergent, inventive metaphor aptly portrays the perplexing conditions under which his career ended, and how my long-term research project likewise concluded. School reform teacher knowledge contexts of teaching teaching metaphors...

... at large corporations, sheds light on the various ways in which AI is transforming HR (administrative aspects, recruitment, training, motivation, etc.). It has become clear that these practices must be examined critically, with reference to the issues of HR data, the risk of gadgetization...

... and competitive platforms, data analysis problems, interpreting images, moderating content or transcribing video. Tasks on space-based platforms are performed by employees personally at certain physical locations and include a taxi, delivery, home services (like plumbing or electrician), housework and maintenance...