BBC Radio 5: Drive
Dr David Stillwell, University Lecturer in Big Data Analytics & Quantitative Social Science at Cambridge Judge, comments on plans by Admiral insurance, blocked by Facebook, to allow social media "Likes" and other activities to be used to set young people's…
‘Data’ and popcorn
New exhibit at the Science Museum in London features research about our Big Data by Dr David Stillwell of Cambridge Judge Business School. A new exhibit at the Science Museum called Our Lives in Data features much-cited research on social…
The Guardian: What could Facebook target next? Our mental health data
Our Facebook status updates, “likes” and even photos could help researchers better understand mental health disorders with the right ethical safeguards, says a new study from the University of Cambridge. The data collected from social media could help improve researchers’…
Medical Express: Facebook updates could help to understand mental health disorders
Our Facebook status updates, “likes” and even photos could help researchers better understand mental health disorders with the right ethical safeguards, says a new study from the University of Cambridge. The data collected from social media could help improve researchers’…
The Wall Street Journal: The more cash people have, the happier they are
WSJ interview with Joe Gladstone, a PhD researcher at Cambridge Judge Business School, about research into money and happiness. Joe co-authored a study that found having more money in their bank account makes people happy. Another study shows that spending…
Cambridge News: From Cambridge University to Broadway with Daniel Radcliffe
Dr David Stillwell is an academic at University of Cambridge Judge Business School, so how did he end up on a New York stage? “David Stillwell" is a character in the dramatic play “Privacy" in which he describes his groundbreaking…
From academia to (off)-Broadway
David Stillwell is a big data academic at Cambridge Judge Business School. So why does he feature in a hit play at New York's Public Theater, starring Daniel Radcliffe? Dr David Stillwell is an academic through and through. Bespectacled, earnest,…
Yahoo Finance: An algorithm can predict how smart you are based on your Facebook photo
A recent study co-authored by David Stillwell, University Lecturer in Big Data Analytics & Quantitative Social Science at Cambridge Judge Business School, looked at Facebook profile images of more than a thousand people in order to predict how smart someone…
Cambridge Business Magazine: Study points to ‘happier’ e-commerce results
Money really can buy happiness when spending fits our personality, finds a pioneering “big data” study based on nearly 77,000 actual UK bank spending transactions co-authored by Cambridge Judge’s David Stillwell, along with Joe Gladstone and Sandra Matz. The three…
New Scientist: What your social media profile picture says about your personality
Is it possible to determine user’s personality by social media profile pictures? David Stilwell, University Lecturer in Big Data Analytics & Quantitative Social Science at Cambridge Judge Business School, says this is not enough: “Profile picture analysis is not going…