Centre for Business Data Analytics (cbsBDA)
Centre for Business Data Analytics aims to make seminal contributions to scientific knowledge and to create practical applications that yield meaningful facts, actionable insights, valuable outcomes, and sustainable impacts for organizations and society.
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About Center for Business Data Analytics
Center for Business Data Analytics (cbsBDA) at the Department of Digitalization at Copenhagen Business School conducts transdisciplinary basic research at the socio-technical intersections of computer science and social science with specific applications to managers in companies, teachers in schools, and residents in cities.
Research focus
cbsBDA’s basic research program is aimed at modelling and explaining socio-technical interactions using set theory. Its applied research program seeks to design, develop, and evaluate big data analytics applications for managers (descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analytics), teachers (teaching analytics and learning analytics), and citizens (public health analytics).
Approach and ambition
cbsBDA aspires to conduct engaged scholarship in the Pasteur’s Quadrant. The objective is to make seminal contributions to scientific knowledge and to create practical applications that yield meaningful facts, actionable insights, valuable outcomes, and sustainable impacts for organizations and society.
Service and outreach include public lectures, industry workshops, tutorials, and research consultancy.
Recognition and facilities
Awards and honours
Selected prizes and nominations received by cbsBDA and collaborators.
- Best Paper Nomination, LDIC 2016, Bremen, Germany
- Best Paper Award and Best Paper Nomination, ACM CABS 2014, Kyoto, Japan
- Best Student Paper Award and Best Paper Nomination, CSCL 2009, Rhodes, Greece
- Best Paper Nomination, ACM CHI 2009, Boston, USA
- Best Paper Award, ICCE 2007, Hiroshima, Japan
- DSEB—Research Dissemination Prize 2015
Infrastructure and instrumentation
Overview of facilities, IT setup, and scientific equipment available to the centre.
Physical infrastructure
- One large room with a high-resolution display and eye-tracking equipment
- Additional meeting rooms and open research spaces via the Department of Digitalization and CBS administration
IT infrastructure
- 7 virtual servers (3×Linux, 4×Windows) hosted with CBS IT and IBM Denmark
- 1 Amazon cloud server (Linux)
- 3 on-site physical servers (Winx64) at CBS and the IT University of Copenhagen
Scientific instrumentation
- Desktop eye-tracker (SMI RED 60 Hz)
- Eye-tracking glasses (SMI ETG-2)
- EEG headsets (Emotiv 16-channel)
- EDR wrist bands
- Large high-resolution displays (84ʺ 4K; 27ʺ 5K; 32ʺ curved ultrawide)
Additional access
- Facilities and equipment of the CogLab at CBS
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Department of Digitalization
Copenhagen Business School
Howitzvej 60; 2.14
DK-2000 Frederiksberg
Denmark
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Research at Center for Business Data Analytics (cbsBDA)
Research overview
Center for Business Data Analytics (cbsBDA) at the Department of Digitalization at Copenhagen Business School conducts transdisciplinary basic research at the socio-technical intersections of computer science and social science with specific applications to managers in companies, teachers in schools, and residents in cities.
cbsBDA’s basic research program is aimed at modelling and explaining socio-technical interactions using set theory. The applied research program seeks to design, develop, and evaluate big data analytics applications for managers (descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analytics), teachers (teaching analytics and learning analytics), and citizens (public health analytics).
Research at cbsBDA
Projects
Externally funded research projects:
- Big Social Data Analytics for Public Health: Copenhagen Health Innovation: ReVUS (PI, 2016–1018, 3,042,000 DKK)
- Big Social Data Analytics for Business: Industriens Fond: Big Data Tema (PI, 2015–2018, 6,200,000 DKK)
- Networked Business Institute: Public-Private Partnership (PI, 2014–2017, 3,363,837 DKK)
- Novel Augmented Reality Services in Media: Nordic Innovation (Co-PI, 2012–2013, CBS: 140,000 / 1,501,500 NOK)
- International Networking Grants: Danish Ministry of Science (PI, 2010–2012, 1,080,000 DKK)
- NEXT-TELL: EU FP7 Large-Scale Integrating Project (Co-PI, 2010–2014, CBS: 589,954 / 8,176,135 EUR)
Publications
Please see CBS Research for the complete list of publications from the Center for Business Data Analytics (cbsBDA).
Journals + Conference proceedings + Book chapters (selection from existing text):
- Vatrapu, R., Mukkamala, R. R., Hussain, A., & Flesch, B. (2016). Social Set Analysis: A Set Theoretical Approach to Big Data Analytics. IEEE Access. 10.1109/ACCESS.2016.2559584.
- Flesch, B., Vatrapu, R., Mukkamala, R., & Hussain, A. (2015). Social Set Visualizer… IEEE Big Data.
- Vatrapu, R., Hussain, A., Lassen, N. B., Mukkamala, R. R., Flesch, B., & Madsen, R. (2015). Social Set Analysis: Four Demonstrative Case Studies. Social Media & Society.
- Mukkamala, R. R., Iskou Sørensen, J., Hussain, A., & Vatrapu, R. (2015). Social Set Analysis of Corporate Social Media Crises on Facebook. EDOC 2015.
- Jensen, T., & Vatrapu, R. (2015). Ships & Roses… ECIS 2015 Proceedings.
- Tørning, K., Jaffari, Z. A., & Vatrapu, R. (2015). Current Challenges in Social Media Management. Social Media & Society.
- Zimmerman, C., Hansen, K., & Vatrapu, R. (2014). A Theoretical Model for Digital Reverberations… IJEGR, 10(1), 46–62.
- Kunst, K., & Vatrapu, R. (2014). Towards a Theory of Socially Shared Consumption… ECIS 2014 Proceedings.
- Robertson, S., Vatrapu, R., & Medina, R. (2010). Off the Wall Political Discourse… Information Polity, 15(1–2), 11–31.
- Vatrapu, R. (2010). Explaining Culture… ACM ICC 2010.
Books
- Reimann, P., Bull, S., Kickmeier-Rust, M., Vatrapu, R., & Wasson, B. (Eds.). (2015). Measuring and Visualizing Learning in the Information-Rich Classroom. Routledge, New York.
- Vatrapu, R., Mukkamala, R., & Hussain, A. (under preparation/2016). Social Set Analysis. Springer Series on Computational Social Sciences, New York.
Software
From the existing software catalogue (retain original “link, papers” notes):
- Social Data Analytics Tool — SODATO: link, papers
- Social Set Visualiser — SoSeVi: link, papers
- Domain-Specific Multi-Dimensional Classifiers — link, papers
- Repertory Grids for Formative Assessment — RGFA: link, papers
- Communication and Negotiation Tool — CoNeTo: link, papers
- iKlassroom — link, papers
Teaching (Panel content)
Teaching at Center for Business Data Analytics (cbsBDA)
Courses associated with cbsBDA across BSc, MSc, and PhD levels. The lists reflect the original course titles and notes.
Courses
- Social Media Management
- Evidence Based Management
- Big Data Analytics
- Big Social Data Analytics
- Big Data Analytics for Managers
PhD courses
- PhD: Computational Social Science
- PhD: ITM: Visual Analytics
- PhD: Affordances
- PhD: Social Set Analysis
Minor
- Data-in-Business Minor at CBS