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Analytical sociology and computational social science [PDF]
Journal of Computational Social Science, 2017 Analytical sociology focuses on social interactions among individuals and the hard-to-predict aggregate outcomes they bring about. It seeks to identify generalizable mechanisms giving rise to emergent properties of social systems which, in turn, feed ...
Marc Keuschnigg +2 more
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MANIFESTO OF COMPUTATIONAL SOCIAL SCIENCE
Mediações: Revista de Ciências Sociais, 2013 The increasing integration of technology into our lives has created unprecedented volumes of data on society’s everyday behaviour. Such data opens up exciting new opportunities to work towards a quantitative understanding of our complex social systems ...
Rosaria Conte +13 more
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Computational Social Science and Sociology.
The Annual review of sociology, 2020 The integration of social science with computer science and engineering fields has produced a new area of study: computational social science. This field applies computational methods to novel sources of digital data such as social media, administrative ...
Achim Edelmann +3 more
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On the accuracy of short-term COVID-19 fatality forecasts
BMC Infectious Diseases, 2022 Background Forecasting new cases, hospitalizations, and disease-induced deaths is an important part of infectious disease surveillance and helps guide health officials in implementing effective countermeasures.
Nino Antulov-Fantulin, Lucas Böttcher
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IEEE Access, 2023 Data-driven and machine-learning-based methods are increasingly used in attempts to master the challenges of the world. But are they really the best approaches to manage complex dynamical systems?
Marcin Korecki +2 more
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Studying social networks in the age of computational social science
EPJ Data Science, 2023 Social and behavioral sciences now stand at a critical juncture. The emergence of Computational Social Science has significantly changed how social networks are studied.
Xinwei Xu
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A Bibliometric Analysis of the Use of Artificial Intelligence Technologies for Social Sciences
Mathematics, 2022 The use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Big Data analysis algorithms is complementary to theory-driven analysis approaches and becoming more popular also in social sciences.
Tuba Bircan, Almila Alkim Akdag Salah
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Social-LLM: Modeling User Behavior at Scale using Language Models and Social Network Data [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 The proliferation of social network data has unlocked unprecedented opportunities for extensive, data-driven exploration of human behavior. The structural intricacies of social networks offer insights into various computational social science issues, particularly concerning social influence and information diffusion.
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VOLUNTAS - International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, 2020 How can computational social science (CSS) methods be applied in nonprofit and philanthropic studies? This paper summarizes and explains a range of relevant CSS methods from a research design perspective and highlights key applications in our field.
Ji Ma +6 more
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Machine Learning of Concepts Hard Even for Humans: The Case of Online Depression Forums
International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 2020 Social scientists of mixed-methods research have traditionally used human annotators to classify texts according to some predefined knowledge. The “big data” revolution, the fast growth of digitized texts in recent years brings new opportunities but also
Renáta Németh +2 more
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