Computational
Social
Science

Private

Microsoft research 👥

Duncan Watts 🚩

Universtities

UC Berkeley 👥

Princeton👥

Matt Salganik🚩
(sociology)

Northeastern Uni 👥

David Lazer🚩

Cornell University 👥

CSS group

CalTech 👥

Michael Alvarez 🚩

Computational Social Science ✏
book 2016

✏Computational Social Science
article in Nature 2009

data analysis

text analysis

statistical and supervised

challenges

ethical: How data is collected
-individual privacy vs 'social supercollider'

Manual

unsupervised ML

MIT👥

Alex Pentland 🚩 #
(founder MIT Media Lab)

branches

computational social choice
-aggregation of preferences
of multiple agents

data collection

collect data
-recruit participants
-crowdsource participants
-design hypothesis and testing

reuse/repurpose data

more careful use of statistical tests
-confusion around p-values

generate data
by simulation

network analysis

social cotagion

clustered networks

multilayer networks

information transfer

interactions over time

computational journalism

social media usage biases

advantages

large scale analysis

understanding of opinions and biases

Joshua Blumenstock 🚩

Hannah Wallach # 🎊

Google 👥

Jeremy Ginsberg

Funding & Councils

DARPA 👥

NSF 👥

Sebastian Benthall
(philosophy of CSS)

✏predicting the flu 2009

understand dynamics of
social movements

crowdsourcing biases

few CSS papers published in social science journals

citizen science

Sage Publishing 👥
-Ocean

Large available datasets:
-journals & newspapers API
-Google Ngram viewer
-Twitter and other API
-network data
-SEO data
etc

social network analysis

at least half social scientists
don't have the skills

scalable

Imperial (UK) 👥
-ML initiative

Seth Flaxman
(math)

Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye
(computing) #

other groups/initiatives

Stanford 👥

Mark Algee-Hewitt

New York University 👥

Paul DiMaggio
-sociology 👤

We need better guidelines for curating textual data
pre-analysis #

University of Bristol 👥

Intelligent Systems Lab

Colin Campbell

cool projects, tools and other examples

Internet Archive
virtual reading room

Science Po 👥

Bruno Latour 🚩
(philosophy and sociology)
retired

Steven Strogatz
(math)

Ic2s2 community and conferece

IRiSS - center for computational social science

Michael Macy🚩

David Mimmo

Adam Russell

Harvard 👥

Gary King 🚩 #

perusall

thresher

The OpenScholar

UVA Netherlands👥

Damian Trilling
wrote Python for SS book

Vrije Unive Amsterdam 👥

CrowdTruth
collective intelligence

Lora Aroyo 🎊

Oana Inel 🎊

Chris Welty #

Topic modelling
counting co-occurrences/Latent Dirichlet Allocation

bag of words

sentiment based on word frequencies

NLP

distant reading #

Franco Moretti

CrowdTruth

n-grams

bias towards already digitised content

visualisation of Tolkien books: http://lotrproject.com/statistics/books/

pronoun frequencies by gender over time :http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=4126

Nebraska 👥

Stephen Ramsay
(digital humanities)

✏ towards and algorithmic criticism

Google nGram viewer

nelatoolkit.science

Social Science One (facebook)

Sloan 👥

Josh Greenberg

NER

Parts of Speech

reading/annotation

rhetorical analysis

event extraction

computational cognition

predictive analytics -business intelligence

Bloomsbury.ai
(acquired by Facebook)

EMERGING
causal relation extraction

summarization

linguistic - handcrafted patterns (manual); most common is lexical clues

logical rules: also using deep semantic reasoning to infer additional rules

machine learning (supervised, un and semi)

Facebook 👥

Lada Adamic # 🎊

✏2018 opinion CSS=/soc science+computer

✏Bit by bit

collective intelligence

predict poverty with mobile phone metadata
Blumenstock paper; best example of low cost prediction

Solomon Messing

University of Pennsylvania 👥

Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon 🎊 #

Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche 👥

Giulia Andrighetto 🎊

University of Minho PT 👤

Inês Amaral 🎊

Warwick 👥

Suzy Moat 🎊

Oxford 👥

Oxford Internet Institute

Helen Margetts 🎊

LSE 👥

Milena Tsvetkova 🎊

Taha Yasseri

GOKHAN CIFLIKLI

SÍLVIA MAJÓ-VÁZQUEZ 🎊

CHANUKI SERESINHE 🎊

Janet Pierrehumbert 🎊

Nello Cristianini

UC Davis 👥

Cuihua Shen 🎊

Leibnitz Institute for the Social Sciences 👥
GESIS

Claudia Wagner 🎊

Karen S Cook 🎊
sociology

Katrin Weller 🎊

Agnes Horvat 🎊

Ken Benoit

EC Joint Res Centre 👥

Alexandra Balahur 🎊

IBM 👥

Alexandra Olteanu 🎊

Lillian Lee 🎊

Pittsburg 👥

Janyce Wiebe 🎊

Diane Litman 🎊

Emily Falk 🎊

Jeff Hancock

social cyber-security

Santa Fe Institute 👥

Melinda Mills

Josh Tucker

Turing Institute

LinkedIn Economic Graph Research Program

Essex

James Allen Robertson

computational finance

simulations

agent based simulations

system level simulations