Funda Ustek-Spilda is currently a Research Officer at the London School of Economics, Department of Media and Communications. She is part of the Horizon 2020 research project, Virt-EU. She also continues her work at ARITHMUS as a Visiting Researcher. Funda is working on her first research monograph “Choosing to be Invisible, Dying to be Visible” on the invisible work of women workers in the informal sector, which will be published by Routledge. https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/contributor/funda-ustek-spilda/rss en Innovation & Technology Solutions Tue, 05 Jun 2018 12:00:00 +0000 Stephan Scheel, Funda Ustek-Spilda https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/community/2018/06/05/why-big-data-cannot-fix-migration-statistics https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/community/2018/06/05/why-big-data-cannot-fix-migration-statistics Big promises that “big data” will provide more accurate, real-time international migration statistics are overblown, say researchers Stephan Scheel and Funda Ustek-Spilda. They explain the political problems with statistics that cannot be solved by a technological fix.