September 4th

What can Political Science get out of Data Science, and vice versa?

Professor Giovanna Maria Dora Dore will be talking about Data Science from a Social Sciences perspective and her work with The Cassandra Project.

Please read (Lazer et al., 2020), (Dore & McCarthy, 2022), and (Edelmann et al., 2020) before class.

This class and reading are one of your four mandatory reflections - due before class next week.

References

2022

Learning to Play with the Machines in Social Science Research: Bringing the Theory Back In

Giovanna Maria Dora Dore and Arya D. McCarthy

In Proceedings of the Human-Machine Collaboration and Teaming Conference (ICML-HMCaT), 2022

Bib

@inproceedings{giovanna2022,
  title = {Learning to Play with the Machines in Social Science Research: Bringing the Theory Back In},
  author = {Dore, Giovanna Maria Dora and McCarthy, Arya D.},
  year = {2022},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Human-Machine Collaboration and Teaming Conference (ICML-HMCaT)},
  url = {https://slideslive.com/38986428/learning-how-to-play-with-the-machines-in-social-science-research-bringing-the-theory-back-in}
}

2020

Computational social science: Obstacles and opportunities

David MJ Lazer, Alex Pentland, Duncan J Watts, and 8 more authors

Science, 2020

Bib

@article{lazer2020computational,
  title = {Computational social science: Obstacles and opportunities},
  author = {Lazer, David MJ and Pentland, Alex and Watts, Duncan J and Aral, Sinan and Athey, Susan and Contractor, Noshir and Freelon, Deen and Gonzalez-Bailon, Sandra and King, Gary and Margetts, Helen and others},
  journal = {Science},
  volume = {369},
  number = {6507},
  pages = {1060--1062},
  year = {2020},
  publisher = {American Association for the Advancement of Science}
}

Computational social science and sociology

Achim Edelmann, Tom Wolff, Danielle Montagne, and 1 more author

Annual review of sociology, 2020

Bib

@article{edelmann2020computational,
  title = {Computational social science and sociology},
  author = {Edelmann, Achim and Wolff, Tom and Montagne, Danielle and Bail, Christopher A},
  journal = {Annual review of sociology},
  volume = {46},
  number = {1},
  pages = {61--81},
  year = {2020},
  publisher = {Annual Reviews}
}