Publishing Innovations in the Age of Big Data

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Publishing Innovations in the Age of Big Data

Ziyad MararPresident, Global PublishingSAGE@ZiyadMarar

London Info InternationalDecember 5th 2017


Clay Shirky

‘Publishing is going away.... That’s not a job

anymore. That’s a button.

There’s a button that says “publish,” and when you

press it, it’s done.’







‘You are entitled to your opinion, but you are not entitled to your own facts’

Daniel Patrick Moynihan




‘The future is already

here. It’s just not very

evenly distributed’

William Gibson



Nick Adams


Nick Adams




Brain Blueprint Basket


Challenges to

Innovation 1

Knowing too

Little

Challenges to

Innovation 2

Knowing too

Much



Lean Value Tree Framework


Four problem areas

COLLABORATION TOOLS & SOFTWARESKILLS DATA

1 2 3 4

MISSIONImprove social science through tools and

skills for working with big data

GOALS

BETA

LEVEL

PRODUCT

IDEAS


SAGE Campus: A new online course platform

Mar 2017 – Concept

July 2017 – Marketing Launch

Aug 2017 – Payments Open

Sept 2017 – Courses started

URL: https://campus.sagepub.com

https://campus.sagepub.com/


Introduction to

Python for Social

Scientists

Interactive Data

Visualization with R

for Social Scientists

Introduction to

Applied Data

Science Methods for

Social Scientists

Fundamentals of

Quant Text Analysis


Practical Data

Management in R


Partner: Royal

Statistical Society

Partner: Royal

Statistical Society

Partner: University of

Berkeley D-Lab

Partner: Essex

Univeristy Summer

School

Partner: Matt Denny

& Six Red Marbles

Courses launched


Tim O’Reilly



The First Social Science FOO CAMP

• Hosted by facebook on their

campus

• 200 — 250 technologists and social

scientists for debate and inspiration

• Follows an “unconference” format


2018 Investments in Tools

• Software tools

• Start ups

• By social scientists for social science

Concept Grants

Joint Ventures

Investments


3 MODELS FOR INVESTMENT

Concept Grants

Joint Ventures

Investments

Offering a one-off grant to a social researcher who wants to take an idea

from concept to a prototype, or even a product.

SAGE would offer up to 4 grants of up to £25K / $30K in 2018.

This would get us involved with developers on Day 1 with products that

we may one day sell, as well as being a great PR opportunity as we

establish ourselves as guardians in this emerging area of computational

social research.

Identifying tools where use is limited and that we can use our brand,

product development expertise and sales & marketing heft to scale and

sell.

Straight equity or revenue share, tied into a sales, marketing &

distribution arrangement for SAGE


flourish



Ziyad MararPresident, Global PublishingSAGE

@ZiyadMarar

London Info InternationalDecember 5th 2017

Data & Analytics

Publishing Innovations in the Age of Big Data