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Big Data Rich and Big Data Poor LSE blog post

“The Big Data rich and the Big Data poor”: the new digital divide raises questions about future academic research

Social Media Analysis tools – check out this peer tested and reviewed list of software by the LAB at Ryerson University: http://socialmediadata.org/social-media-research-toolkit/

Russell Sage Foundation Issues RFP for Computational Social Science Projects
Through the initiative, grants of up to $150,000 will be awarded in support of innovative social science research that brings new data and methods to bear on questions of interest in the foundation’s core programs in Behavioral Economics; the Future of Work; Race, Ethnicity, a[Read more]

Social Research in the Age of Big Data – talk at University of Washington on Nov 16th by Matt Salganik http://data.uw.edu/seminar/2016/salganik/

OA article about CHORUS, a social media big data analytics tool for social scientists:
http://bds.sagepub.com/content/3/2/2053951716658060

How to use R to forecast sentiment analysis, from the Algorithmia blog

Using R to Build a Sentiment Analysis Forecasting Pipeline

Ken Benoit speaking at NYU this Thursday as part of their Text as Data series:

Text as Data Speaker Series

Some interesting lectures hosted by the Alan Turing Institute coming up:

Turing Lecture: Smarter Cities

Next Wednesday 2 November, Prof Anthony Finkelstein will present ‘National Security Science: challenges and opportunities’, followed by Prof Jon Crowcroft on ‘Systems Challenges for[Read more]

Machine Learning in R – paper published in the Journal of Machine Learning Research – https://www.r-bloggers.com/paper-published-mlr-machine-learning-in-r/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+RBloggers+%28R+bloggers%29

NYU hosts a weekly text as data speaker series – for anyone based in NYC it looks great! “The series provides an opportunity for attendees to see cutting edge text-as-data work from the fields of social science, computer science and other related disciplines.”

Text as Data Speaker Series

check out this white paper: Who is doing computational social science? – a write up of a survey by SAGE and University of Essex https://us.sagepub.com/sites/default/files/compsocsci.pdf

Machine Learning for Social Science – watch this great key note by Hannah Wallach at SciPy 2016 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqfKz-PP9FU