Ziyad Marar, President, Global Publishing at SAGE, gives the opening keynote at London Info International on how the rise of big data and new technology is transforming the nature of social research

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Publishing Innovations in
the Age of Big Data
Ziyad Marar
President, Global Publishing
SAGE
@ZiyadMarar
London Info International
December 5th 2017

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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.’

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

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‘The future is already
here. It’s just not very
evenly distributed’
William Gibson

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Nick Adams

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Nick Adams

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Brain Blueprint Basket

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19. Challenges to
Innovation 1
Knowing too
Little

20. Challenges to
Innovation 2
Knowing too
Much

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Lean Value Tree Framework

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Four problem areas
COLLABORATION TOOLS & SOFTWARESKILLS DATA
1 2 3 4
MISSION
Improve social science through tools and
skills for working with big data
GOALS
BETA
LEVEL
PRODUCT
IDEAS

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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

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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
for Social Scientists
Practical Data
Management in R
for Social Scientists
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

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Tim O’Reilly

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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

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2018 Investments in Tools
• Software tools
• Start ups
• By social scientists for social science
Concept Grants
Joint Ventures
Investments

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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

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flourish

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Ziyad Marar
President, Global Publishing
SAGE
@ZiyadMarar
London Info International
December 5th 2017