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Computational ethnography: A view from sociology [PDF]
Big Data & Society, 2022 This commentary elaborates on the ideas and projects outlined in this special issue, from a specifically sociological perspective. Much recent work in sociology proposes ‘methods mashups’ of ethnography and digital data/computational tools in different ...
Phillip Brooker
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Computational Social Science and Sociology [PDF]
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 records, and historical archives to develop theories of human behavior.
Achim Edelmann, Christopher A Bail
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Computational Sociology: A Paradigm Shift or “Econometrics” of Sociology
Humanities and Social Sciences. Bulletin of the Financial University, 2021 The article discusses the emergence of a new field of research in computational sociology that provides a framework for quantitative assessment of social processes and operates with extensive data resources. Further, the perspective of the dynamics of social science methodology is discussed: towards traditional social science with the ability to ...
Tatiana Goroshnikova
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Computational approaches in rigorous sociology: agent-based computational modeling and computational social science [PDF]
, 2022 We discuss two computational approaches of particular significance for rigorous sociology, Agent-Based Computational Modeling (ABCM) and Computational Social Science (CSS). CSS exploits novel sources of large-scale data from, for example, the Internet, telephone-communication records, or population register data, studying digital traces of social ...
Andreas Flache +2 more
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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 back on individual decision-making.
Marc Keuschnigg +2 more
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Computation and the Sociological Imagination [PDF]
Contexts, 2019 Computational sociology leverages new tools and data sources to expand the scope and scale of sociological inquiry. It’s opening up an exciting frontier for sociologists of every stripe—from theorists and ethnographers to experimentalists and survey researchers. It expands the sociological imagination.
James Evans, Jacob G. Foster
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What’s the TEE: Metrics of Temperature Extremes in Europe NUTS Regions (1980-2024) [PDF]
Scientific DataWe generate datasets quantifying extreme temperature exposure in Europe using a variety of metrics at two sub-national spatial scales (NUTS 2 and NUTS 3) and three temporal scales (daily, extreme temperature wave, and yearly) from 1980-2024.
Sara R. Ronnkvist +6 more
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COMPUTATIONAL SOCIOLOGY: APPLICATION AND DEVELOPMENT
Jurnal Partisipatoris, 2019 Along with the popularity of research on Big Data and the increasingly massive use of computer as well as internet-based research, the development of studies with a computational sociology approach has also received more attention. Computational sociology approach such as agent-based modeling or social network analysis has become a new landmark of the ...
Yanu Endar Prasetyo
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Editorial: The phenomenon of misinformation in different domains and by various disciplines [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyMarco Biella, Veronika Batzdorfer
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Challenges of Automated Identification of Access to Education and Training in Germany
Information, 2023 The German labor market relies heavily on vocational training, retraining, and continuing education. In order to match training seekers with training offers and to make the available data interoperable, we present a novel approach to automatically detect
Jens Dörpinghaus +2 more
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