Research Centre Centre for Big Data
Centre for Big Data (CeBiDa) is an interdisciplinary research centre focusing on big data analytics, methodologies, modelling, big data learning and visualisations of big data in different contexts. It combines research across natural science, humanities, social science and technical sciences.
Vision
The Centre has a strategic aim to conduct research and offer courses both internally and externally.
In order to fully commit to this strategic aim the Centre has intensified interdisciplinary collaboration through facilitating closer integration and synergy between natural science, humanities, social science and technology. Roskilde University holds a unique position by working across a broad spectrum of highly relevant research areas, educational aspects and having established collaboration with a range of external stakeholders like NGOs, private companies, universities and public institutions. CeBiDa demonstrates the strengths of interdisciplinarity and intersectoral collaboration on a local, national and international level.
The purpose of CeBiDa is to strengthen:
- Interdisciplinary research with big data
- Innovation and implementation of interdisiplinary big data solutions
- Further external funding for research projects
- Provide important knowledge on big data, which can be used by stakeholders in both the public and private sector
Focus
CeBiDa focuses on strengthening the interdisciplinary collaborations across departments internally and between departments and external stakeholders in the area of big data.
We work within the area of big data in the following areas:
- Social services
- Health care
- Education
- Media and communication
- Natural sciences

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Contact
Centre leader Henrik Bulskov, Assosiate professor, Department of People andTechnology, bulskov@ruc.dk
Vice centre leader Jannie Møller Hartley, Assosiate professor, IDepartment of Communication and Arts, jath@ruc.dk
AdministartionSara Schrøder Kaas, AC-fuldmægtig, sarask@ruc.dk
Researchers

Base at Roskilde University
Centre for Big Data is an interdisciplinary centre with roots in all RUC's departments: Department overview
The centre works with big data in social science, health care, education, communication and media as well as natural sciences and will be part of many of the university programmes - bachelor's, master's and exchange programmes and for our PhD schools.
There are many related research units - among them: Audiences & Mediated life research group // Organizing, Communication and Digitization research group // Programming, Logic and Intelligent Systems research group // Sustainable Digitalization research group

More information
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Contact
Henrik Bulskov
Centre leader, Associate professor
Phone +45 4674 2272
bulskov@ruc.dk
Jannie Møller Hartley,
Vice centre leader, Associate professor
Phone +45 4674 3753
jath@ruc.dk
Administration
Sara Schrøder Kaas
Administration officer
Phone +45 4674 3433
sarask@ruc.dk