April 2020 big data & social research roundup
With a third of the world’s population currently in some form of lockdown to control the spread of the coronavirus, the imperative to better understand the nature of the outbreak could not be greater. In the latest edition of our monthly newsletter, we are giving a shout-out to the response of the computational social science community.
The quantity of COVID-19 news, some of it more reliable than others, can be overwhelming. We’ve put together a resource hub to help you navigate the numbers, browse maps and visualizations, and access tools to conduct your own data analysis. We’ve also included links to resources from SAGE Publishing for managing the transition to online teaching, as well as accessing and publishing research related to COVID-19.
In other news this month, we are hiring a SAGE Ocean Fellow to join us remotely from wherever you are staying safe from the virus, to work with us to develop a new automated text analysis tool for political science research. If you’re a grad student with a healthy (or unhealthy) enthusiasm for text mining, apply by 20th April.
Read on for all this plus our regular emerging tech updates and exciting news for Twitter researchers (spoiler alert - you’re good to go on the API).
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| Our response to the COVID-19 pandemic |
Hello to all our subscribers. Hope everyone is staying healthy and limiting social interaction as much as possible. This newsletter reflects the response of the global computational social science community as they work to collect, analyze and share data on COVID-19. Drawing from the work of this research community, we’ve compiled a list of the resources available for working with COVID-19 data, including datasets, GitHub repositories and visualizations. Visit our hub to find these, together with examples of the big data response to the outbreak, and tips for handling self-isolation. Do you have resources to share with our community? Email us at ocean@sagepub.com. |
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SAGE Publishing is providing access to a range of free teaching and research materials to support the transition to distance learning. There is also free access to research data and findings relevant to the outbreak. |
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Blog: Mapping and visualizing coronavirus data A list of visualization platforms, interactive COVID-19 maps, and visualization best practices. |
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We have an exciting opportunity for a graduate student to join our Product Management team for a 6 week text mining project. As a SAGE Ocean Fellow, you’ll be helping us to develop a prototype for cleaning and preparing large scale political corpora for text mining. |
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Twitter now explicitly allows the use of its API in academic research, following an update and simplification of its developer policy. |
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