[{'text': 'hello freak [ __ ] I would love to play',
'start': 0.439,
'duration': 5.351},
{'text': 'you the dinosaurs are not real video',
'start': 3.72,
'duration': 4.82},
{'text': 'just do it God', 'start': 5.79, 'duration': 5.25},
{'text': "we probably can't play it on YouTube",
'start': 8.54,
'duration': 3.76},
{'text': "where we'll get pulled but we could play",
'start': 11.04,
'duration': 4.44},
{'text': 'the audio right play the I will put the',
'start': 12.3,
'duration': 4.59},
{'text': 'video up on the screen and play the',
'start': 15.48,
'duration': 3.389},
{'text': 'audio for you and you could just [ __ ] it',
'start': 16.89,
'duration': 4.29},
{'text': 'your head could turn beet red smokes',
'start': 18.869,
'duration': 4.381},Week 1
Computational Sociology
Intro.: Computational Social Science
“Computational social science is an interdisciplinary field that advances theories of human behavior by applying computational techniques to large datasets from social media sites, the Internet, or other digitized archives such as administrative records.”
Intro.: Computational Social Science
“[CSS is] the development and application of computational methods to complex, typically large-scale, human (sometimes simulated) behavioral data.”
Digital trace data
What does it look like?
Figure 1: Salganik, Matthew. 2018. Bit by Bit: Social Research in the Digital Age. Princeton: Princeton University Press. p.7.
Examples
Applied examples
Figure 2: https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/7/29/eabe6534/tab-article-info
Applied examples
Figure 3: https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.03820
Applied examples
Figure 4: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4088828
Applied examples
Figure 5: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aac4420
Applied examples
Figure 6: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047272714000929
Applied examples
Figure 7: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1461444810365313
Isn’t it all just [stats./quant./data science]?
Case studies
Case studies
Case studies
Case studies
Case studies
