New Forms of Knowledge

We examine how new forms of data and computational systems can be combined with theories and methods from across disciplines to create new forms of knowledge. We take an interdisciplinary approach to working with digital data, developing robust methodologies to make this useful and actionable for researchers, government, industry and civil society. We are at the forefront of research on ‘social machines’ and are pioneering methods to capture, store, manage, analyse and visualise large-scale, complex and diverse data from multiple sources in the Southampton Web Observatory.