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Data.gov.in
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/12/18/data-gov-in/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 18, 2012 A new initiative to provide free open access to statistical data from the Indian government.
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Fake news spreads faster than true
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/03/16/fake-news-spreads-faster-than-true/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 16, 2018 A team from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) cross-checked the spread of 126,000 stories on Twitter against a database of stories fact-checked by six...
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Standards of conduct in banking
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/11/17/standards-of-conduct-in-banking/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 17, 2014 Read the recent Financial Conduct Authority reports to find out which 5 banks it fined for failing to control business practices in their foreign...
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Attractiveness surveys (for Business)
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/05/26/attractiveness-surveys-for-business/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 26, 2017 Not Beauty! A series of reports on business attractiveness produced by EY – which countries attract foreign investment.
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Visualising Palestine
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/12/15/visualising-palestine/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 15, 2017 This award winning site was originally launched in 2012.
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(Dis)Connected Infrastructures and Violence Against Women project
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/08/03/disconnected-infrastructures-and-violence-against-women-project/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 3, 2018 British Academy funded project involving staff from Kings College London, LSE and Indian universities.
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Food security
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/09/24/food-security/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 24, 2018 Numbers starving worldwide rising Shocking news from the latest Food Security and Nutrition in the World Report released by the UN’s Food and Agricultural Organization.
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Kae Tempest
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/11/30/kae-tempest/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 30, 2023 Documentary about trans rapper, playwright, novelist and poet Kae Tempest. Follows them on their rap tour but also as they transition. Only available to watch in the UK.
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How much is an Oxbridge degree worth?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/12/22/how-much-is-an-oxbridge-degree-worth/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 22, 2014 Released this week- interesting data in the Earning by Degree report from the Sutton Trust which considers differences in earnings from graduates from different universities and in...
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Open government
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/12/22/open-government/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 22, 2014 How open is your government? The latest Global Open Data Index from the Open Knowledge Foundation ranks 97 nations according to the openness of their data on 10 themes: national...