Big Data Repository
For those interested, some researchers at Purdue are creating a repository for publicly available data. It sounds like they’re pretty early in the process, but there might be opportunities for collaboration (or just to access the data on your own).
The full announcement (which I got via the SPSP listserv) is below:
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We are a research team consisting of two psychologists and two computer scientists at Purdue University and University of Pennsylvania, working on a “big data research infrastructure” project called HUBALIVE.
Our vision is to help researchers interested in human behavior observations to collect and analyze their data in a way that is 1) bigger, 2) easier, 3) faster, and 4) less expensive. The HUBALIVE project aims to allow researchers in social and organizational sciences to access a large volume of video, image, and text data that are publicly available around the world (e.g., 70,000 live video streams with associated metadata; for more info, visit: www.hubalive.org). To this end, our online data repository and accompanying analytic tools called “HUBALIVE” will be made available free-of-charge for research purposes.
At this juncture, we are interested in gauging the initial level of interest in (free) access to such data in the field of social and organizational sciences. We are also interested in identifying scholars who might be interested in collaborating with us for various research opportunities. If you are one of them, please visit the following link to take a 1-minute survey and register for more information and updates: purdue.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/
Please let us know if you have any questions or thoughts to share:hubalive@purdue.edu.
We would very much appreciate you forwarding this to those who may be interested.
Thank you,
Sang Eun Woo
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychological Sciences
Purdue University
www.purdue.edu/hhs/psy/about/
Yung-Hsiang Lu
Associate Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Purdue University
engineering.purdue.edu/HELPS
Lyle H. Ungar
Professor
Department of Computer and Information Science
University of Pennsylvania
www.cis.upenn.edu/~ungar
Louis Tay
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychological Sciences
Purdue University
www.purdue.edu/hhs/psy/about/