How data change science and society

Sylvestre Duroudier was a postdoctoral researcher at the PACTE Laboratory. During one year, he worked on the Blablacar project. The aim was to study territorial patterns designed by an emerging form of transportation, that is carpooling from the most used Blablacar platform about at 95 % of car sharing offers.

Claire Wolfarth is a young doctor at the LIDILEM laboratory in Grenoble. Since her master's thesis, she has been interested in the benefits of natural language processing (NLP) for learning to write. She is particularly working on the Scoledit project on pupils' writings. This project has developed over time to become international.

Antoine Machut is post-doctorant at the Pacte Laboratory from Université Grenoble Alpes. He worked with the Grenoble Alpes Data Institute in 2018-2019 with the project FlexMediaLives. The aim is to provide new data and new analytical frameworks to understand the adjustments made by individuals throughout their careers in social worlds governed by flexible labor markets, such as those for journalists in the media.

Clément Bert-Erboul was a post-doctoral researcher at the Grenoble Alpes Data Institute in 2018-2019. He is specialized in online community studies and practices web scraping to collect online data for social science research. He was mainly working with Gilles Bastin on analyzing journalist careers on LinkedIn, and with Jean Finez and the ECO-INTIME team. He was also working on the #festival project to map the professional logic of online music criticism in France.

Bernard Roukhomovsky, researcher in literature, coordinates the ENCHRE project on the digital edition of Henri de Régnier's notebooks. It is developed within the framework of the UMR Litt&Arts with the ELAN team. It is supported by the CAHIER consortium (TGIR Huma-Num), Démarre SHS! and the Société des lecteurs d'Henri de Régnier (SLHDR). A partnership with the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BnF) and the Bibliothèque de l'Institut de France is also at the heart of this large-scale project.

The Grenoble Alpes Data Institute has just published its report 2017-2020.

Jean Finez is assistant professor in sociology and is interested in the functioning of digital markets. He has been member of the Pacte lab for 3 years. He is currently working with Pierre Brasseur, Jean-Marc Francony and Jingyue Xing on research devoted to the platform economy for the broadcasting of live pornographic shows.

Laura Fancello is a bioinformatician working at the “Exploring the Dynamics of Proteomes” (Edyp) team (Univ. Grenobles Alpes, CEA, Inserm, IRIG-BGE). In 2019, she obtained a Junior Chair from the Data Institute and she is investigating the use of transcriptome information to enhance protein identification in proteomics.

This Study by Prof. Théodore Christakis discusses extensively the concept of "European Digital Sovereignty". It presents the opportunities opened by the concept but also the risks and pitfalls. It provides a panorama of the major debates and developments related to digital/cyber issues in Europe.