Notable Scholars and Business Leaders share Research and Inspiration with Next Generation of Computational Social Scientists
The first Summer Institute in Computational Social Science hosted at a Historically Black College or University featured a panel of guest speakers who inspired participants with their research and professional trajectory. Lecture topics include re-entry into the job force for incarcerated people, financial statuses of small businesses in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic, social identities and systems of power, and discriminatory bias within technology.
Theory and tools in the age of big data
Back in February, I had the privilege of attending Social Science Foo Camp, a flexible-schedule conference hosted in part by SAGE at Facebook HQ where questions of progress in the age of Big Data were a major topic of discussion. What I found most insightful about these conversations is how using or advocating for Big Data is one thing, but making sense of it in the context of an established discipline to do science and scholarship is quite another.
Collecting social media data for research
Human social behavior has rapidly shifted to digital media services, whether Gmail for email, Skype for phone calls, Twitter and Facebook for micro-blogging, or WhatsApp and SMS for private messaging. This digitalization of social life offers researchers an unprecedented world of data with which to study human life and social systems. However, accessing this data has become increasingly difficult.
How do we nurture an academic landscape that is more accessible to women? Let’s start by getting rid of the in-person interview
In the lead up to International Women’s Day on Friday March 8th, we posed a series of questions to leading academics. Here Laura K. Nelson, explores how we nurture an academic landscape that is more accessible to women.
The computation/context trade-Off?
I recently got jazzed about two findings coming out of the world of computational social science, primarily because they hit so close to my home (hello, junior faculty feeling the pressure to produce)