The Role of Geo-Demographic Big Data for Assessing the Effectiveness of Crowd-Funded Software Projects

2015 ◽  
pp. 94-120
Author(s):  
Jonathan Bishop
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Linked Data ◽  
Data Sources ◽  
Social Phenomenon ◽  
Software Projects ◽  
Economic Problems ◽  
The Social ◽  
Business Analysis ◽  
Average Position

The current phenomenon of Big Data – the use of datasets that are too big for traditional business analysis tools used in industry – is driving a shift in how social and economic problems are understood and analysed. This chapter explores the role Big Data can play in analysing the effectiveness of crowd-funding projects, using the data from such a project, which aimed to fund the development of a software plug-in called ‘QPress'. Data analysed included the website metrics of impressions, clicks and average position, which were found to be significantly connected with geographical factors using an ANOVA. These were combined with other country data to perform t-tests in order to form a geo-demographic understanding of those who are displayed advertisements inviting participation in crowd-funding. The chapter concludes that there are a number of interacting variables and that for Big Data studies to be effective, their amalgamation with other data sources, including linked data, is essential to providing an overall picture of the social phenomenon being studied.

The Role of Geo-Demographic Big Data for Assessing the Effectiveness of Crowd-Funded Software Projects

Big Data ◽  
2016 ◽  
pp. 1452-1472 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Bishop
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Linked Data ◽  
Data Sources ◽  
Social Phenomenon ◽  
Software Projects ◽  
Economic Problems ◽  
The Social ◽  
Business Analysis ◽  
Average Position

The current phenomenon of Big Data – the use of datasets that are too big for traditional business analysis tools used in industry – is driving a shift in how social and economic problems are understood and analysed. This chapter explores the role Big Data can play in analysing the effectiveness of crowd-funding projects, using the data from such a project, which aimed to fund the development of a software plug-in called ‘QPress'. Data analysed included the website metrics of impressions, clicks and average position, which were found to be significantly connected with geographical factors using an ANOVA. These were combined with other country data to perform t-tests in order to form a geo-demographic understanding of those who are displayed advertisements inviting participation in crowd-funding. The chapter concludes that there are a number of interacting variables and that for Big Data studies to be effective, their amalgamation with other data sources, including linked data, is essential to providing an overall picture of the social phenomenon being studied.

scholarly journals PREVENTION OF HARASSMENT AT WORK

2017 ◽  
pp. 045
Author(s):  
Milica Todorović
Keyword(s):  
Preventive Measures ◽  
Tertiary Prevention ◽  
Comprehensive System ◽  
Social Response ◽  
Social Phenomenon ◽  
Etiological Factors ◽  
The Social ◽  
Effective System ◽  
Insight Into

In this paper, the author discusses the phenomenon of mobbing, or harassment at the workplace, by focusing on the concept, phenomenological characteristics and types of mobbing, the etiological factors leading to its emergence, and the consequences sustained by victims. Considering the need to have mobbing recognized and legally sanctioned as a form of harassment, the author underscores that the social response to mobbing must be conceived as a comprehensive system of preventive measures. This paper aims to provide an insight into this negative social phenomenon as a prerequisite for building an effective system of primary, secondary and tertiary prevention. In particular, the author provides an overview of the Serbian legislation on this matter and points to the role of the non-governmental sector in the prevention of mobbing.

scholarly journals TOUCHINESS AND CRITICISM. ON THE ROLE OF PHILOSOPHICAL CRITICISM IN CULTURE AND EDUCATION

2020 ◽  
Vol 56 (S1) ◽  
pp. 207-228
Author(s):  
Robert Piłat
Keyword(s):  
Social Practices ◽  
Social Phenomenon ◽  
Dense Network ◽  
Practical Application ◽  
Philosophical Inquiry ◽  
Structural Problems ◽  
The Social ◽  
Differences Of Opinion ◽  
Philosophical Criticism

In this article, I am discussing the social phenomenon of touchiness (excessive sensitivity to differences of opinion and lifestyle) as a result of the polarization of discourse in contemporary Western culture. This polarization and the resulting touchiness are partly an effect of media, but the later also reflects structural problems of cultures and social practices. The problems arise from the dense network of potentially conflicting values. I am discussing some diagnoses of this phenomenon and some purported philosophical remedies including departure from the language of values and abandoning the idea of a strong subject of action and beliefs. I am criticizing these solutions and I am proposing the idea of radical criticism instead. I am presenting the idea about established theories of philosophical criticism, including those by Horkheimer, Spaemann, Habermas. I am also presenting a practical application of the idea of radical criticism in education: promoting philosophical inquiry in the classroom.

scholarly journals A Scalable Business Intelligence Decision-Making System in the Era of Big Data

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (12) ◽  
pp. 2034-2042
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Data Warehouse ◽  
Data Storage ◽  
Business Intelligence ◽  
Unstructured Data ◽  
Data Sources ◽  
Second Step ◽  
Decision Making System ◽  
Set Up

Transformation presents the second step in the ETL process that is responsible for extracting, transforming and loading data into a data warehouse. The role of transformation is to set up several operations to clean, to format and to unify types and data coming from multiple and different data sources. The goal is to get data to conform to the schema of the data warehouse to avoid any ambiguity problems during the data storage and analytical operations. Transforming data coming from structured, semi-structured and unstructured data sources need two levels of treatments: the first one is transformation schema to schema to get a unified schema for all selected data sources and the second treatment is transformation data to data to unify all types and data gathered. To ensure the setting up of these steps we propose in this paper a process switch from one database schema to another as a part of transformation schema to schema, and a meta-model based on MDA approach to describe the main operations of transformation data to data. The results of our transformations propose a data loading in one of the four schemas of NoSQL to best meet the constraints and requirements of Big Data.

scholarly journals Evolution in Visual Communication of the Javanese Printed Wedding Invitations

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 315
Author(s):  
Diah Kristina ◽  
Nur Saptaningsih
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Social Organization ◽  
Social Phenomenon ◽  
Central Java ◽  
Brunei Darussalam ◽  
The Social ◽  
Values And Beliefs ◽  
Social Document ◽  
Host Evolution

Printed wedding invitations have been one of the most crucial aspects in the social organization among many countries like Brunei Darussalam, Iran, Egypt, and Persia. Javanese people also pay special attention to this social document as it represents social class, social status, prestige, and fnancial support allocated by the host. Evolution of printed Javanese wedding invitations represent social and economic pressures. The diasporic communities who were absent to earn a living brought a noticeable change by setting up the bride’s parents’ photographs in the invitations. 15 invitation texts were selected ranging from 1980 – 2017 used in Tawangmangu, Wonogiri and Sukoharjo, the eastern part of Central Java, Indonesia. There was a consistent regularity in terms of rhetorical structure. Functionally, the invitations have the same role of inviting prospective guests to share happiness in a more family-bound relationship. Inclusion of parents’ photographs, map of the location, pre-wedding photos, wise words, calendar, the profle of the couple were indicators of transformation taking place. Later, the printing decision of the invitations is pretty much customer-driven informed by the customers’ needs, values, and beliefs. Rhetorically the materialistically-driven social phenomenon was shown by an explicit gifts desired.

scholarly journals The Use of Big Data in Regenerative Planning

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 3668 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dorota Kamrowska-Zaluska ◽  
Hanna Obracht-Prondzyńska
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Efficient Solutions ◽  
Data Sources ◽  
Regenerative Approach ◽  
Development Processes ◽  
Regenerative Development ◽  
Regenerative Design ◽  
Development Paradigm

With the increasing significance of Big Data sources and their reliability for studying current urban development processes, new possibilities have appeared for analyzing the urban planning of contemporary cities. At the same time, the new urban development paradigm related to regenerative sustainability requires a new approach and hence a better understanding of the processes changing cities today, which will allow more efficient solutions to be designed and implemented. It results in the need to search for tools which will allow more advanced analyses while assessing the planning projects supporting regenerative development. Therefore, in this paper, the authors study the role of Big Data retrieved from sensor systems, social media, GPS, institutional data, or customer and transaction records. The study includes an enquiry into how Big Data relates to the ecosystem and to human activities, in supporting the development of regenerative human settlements. The aim of the study is to assess the possibilities created by Big Data-based tools in supporting regenerative design and planning and the role they can play in urban projects. In order to do this, frameworks allowing for the assessment of planning projects were analyzed according to their potential to support a regenerative approach. This has been followed by an analysis of the accessibility and reliability of the data sources. Finally, Big Data-based projects were mapped upon aspects of regenerative planning according to the introduced framework.

The Concept of the Stolypin Land Reform

Slavic Review ◽  
1964 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 275-293 ◽  
Author(s):  
George L. Yaney
Keyword(s):  
Land Reform ◽  
Historical Development ◽  
General Outline ◽  
Basic Part ◽  
Economic Problems ◽  
The Social

The Stolypin Land Reform was a series of actions taken by the Russian Imperial government during the years 1905-17 to cope with the social and economic problems of the European Russian peasants. The basic part of any analysis of the Reform, therefore, should be a description of these actions as a coherent historical development in themselves. This essay presents such a description. The discussion is divided into four topics: general interpretation, the problems the Reform had to cope with, the general outline of its evolution, and the role of force in its execution. Related topics, such as the historical forces or events which produced the Reform, its results, or its significance in larger developments, are mentioned only incidentally.

scholarly journals The role of ontologies in Linked Data, Big Data and Semantic Web applications

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 189-194 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mike Bennett ◽  
Kenneth Baclawski
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Semantic Web ◽  
Linked Data ◽  
Web Applications

scholarly journals The Role of Substantive Understanding Approaches in The Changes of Fiqh

AL- ADALAH ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-96
Author(s):  
Firdaus Firdaus ◽  
Zainal Azwar
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Social Development ◽  
Future Development ◽  
Data Sources ◽  
Information Process ◽  
Library Research ◽  
Analysis Technique ◽  
The Social

This study aims to offer an approach in changing fiqh to stay in line with the demands of the texts and, at the same time, to create benefits for Muslims in their lives. This research is entirely library research whose data sources are obtained from several sources, including the Tarikh Tasyri Tasyri written by Khudari Bek, Tarikh al-Mazahib al-Islamiyyah fi Tarikh of al-Mazahib al-Fiqhiyyah written by Abu Zahrah, and al-Ittihad al-Fiqhiyyah inda Ashab al-Hadis fi al-Qarni al-Tsalits al-Hijri by Abd al-Majid Mahmud Abd al-Majid, and several other sources relevant to the topic studied. The analysis technique used is content analysis, which is the only technique used in analyzing the information process. This research finds the fact that fiqh changes are a necessity to respond the social development as well as to create benefit for society. Efforts to change fiqh can be done by using a substantive understanding of the syara 'texts which are the basis and source of change. It is in these aspects does appear the importance of the role of substantive understanding in the process of legal changes, as a solution in responding to the current and future development of society.

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