Data Stories - Engaging with Data in a Post-truth World Event

Speaker information

Professor Elena Simperl, is a professor of Computer Science in the Web and Internet Science (WAIS) research group in the department of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) at the University of Southampton. Her primary domain of research is at the intersection between knowledge technologies, social computing, and crowdsourcing. In particular she is interested in socially and economically motivated aspects of creating and using semantically enabled content on the Web, and in paradigms, methods, and techniques to incentivise collaboration and participation at scale.