A little over a week ago, I posted a blog celebrating 39 women in computational social science. We knew there would be so many more amazing researchers to add, and the social science community duly delivered, suggesting plenty of women that should also be celebrated. Therefore, rather fittingly on #AdaLovelaceDay we have published an updated […]
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Social scientists have, overall, been slower to tap into the ever-increasing flow of “big data” than their peers in the physical and medical sciences. That lethargy is a tad ironic given that so much of the big data available, whether it be government administrative data or social media feeds like Twitter, don’t have to be […]
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When natural scientists grapple with big data, they almost inevitably receive raw information from instruments that were designed to provide them the material they wanted in a format for which they had prepared. Social and behavioral scientists, in contrast, are often tapping data flows designed by other people – entrepreneurs and government are key examples […]
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In this second installment of the monthly Big Data and social research newsletter from SAGE, we highlight a new white paper on who in social science is using big data and computational techniqies, and who would like to but isn’t. The newsletter is viewable and scollable below; if you’d like to receive the newsletter in […]
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The era of analyzing big data to research issues in social science is among us. Given that the era only really arrived with the advent of the data itself, and those pools of data – sources such as social media, unstructured text, digital sensors, financial and administrative transactions — have only recently become widely available […]
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Continue ReadingJune saw an important milestone at the intersection of data science and social science – the second International Conference on Computational Social Science. The conference, hosted by the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University in Chicago, was itself a melding of two separate inaugural computational science conferences held the year before, the Computational Social Science […]
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For years political scientist Gary King – director of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University – has preached to his peers for a restructuring of the social sciences that would include “larger scale, collaborative, interdisciplinary, lab-style research teams” with big data analysis in their DNA. Increasingly, King is making the similar arguments to others outside of […]
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