One of the issues that she put forth was what constitutes big data? The current definition deals with 3 Vs of big data \u2013 volume, velocity and variety whereas the journal tries to deal with the relations between the different sets of data practices. The relations include social relations (new ways of connecting in a social ways), method relations (relations between actors and how they connect), data relations (relations that people are becoming aware of in daily life) and research relations (relations between academic research and data subjects).<\/p>\n The second issue she discussed was the social life of big data and how the journal will allow the authors to dynamically check the different keywords or related keywords that other authors are using. This might encourage the authors to come forward with issues that dominate the subject. The third concern she came up with is the instability in the visualization criteria and fragility in the minor alterations that can be done to the design.<\/p>\n She also discussed the critiques that are made against network diagram. One was that network diagrams lack specificity and the other one is that they are spatial with respect to patterns and it privileges over other properties. And she defended why network diagrams, although simple, are currently needed for the visualization of big data. <\/p>\n Professor Evelyn\u2019s lecture was an eye-opener with respect to the concerns of visualization in an emerging field like big data. The talk was engaging as she drew parallels with the journal and how they are going about envisaging the data they are collecting.<\/p>\n Before the presentation started all guests had a chance to meet each other in a hall where MSc students from the University of Southampton placed posters they created about a wide range of web science topics and guests had a chance to discuss these topics with the students.<\/p>\n Among many interesting posters it\u2019s possible to highlight works dedicated to addressing the following questions:<\/p>\n 1. Why people show different behavior online and offline?<\/p>\n Taekyun Kim considered the question from two different perspectives: psychology and computer science. From a psychological point of view, scientists see that people are more brave and open in communication online as there are no psychological boundaries. Also, users don\u2019t feel guilty as they think it\u2019s virtual space, they show their personality easily, which can be more usually hidden in the real world.<\/p>\n We are different persons online and offline #sotonwsi<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/CFMT6Q9gRm<\/a><\/p>\n — Elena Tsarkova (@letsarkova) January 22, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n![\"big](\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsi\/files\/2015\/01\/big-data-225x300.jpg\")
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