Computational social science: Obstacles and opportunities by Lazer, David M. J., Pentland, Alex, Watts, Duncan J., Aral, Sinan, Athey, Susan, Contractor, Noshir, Freelon, Deen, Gonzalez-Bailon, Sandra, King, Gary, Margetts, Helen, Nelson, Alondra, Salganik, Matthew J., Strohmaier, Markus, Vespignani, Alessandro, Wagner, Claudia

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At the crossroads: Lessons and challenges in computational social science by Borge-Holthoefer, J, Moreno, Y, Yasseri, T

Editorial: At the Crossroads: Lessons and Challenges in Computational Social Science by Borge-Holthoefer, J, Moreno, Y, Yasseri, T

Complex systems and a computational social science perspective on the labor market by Almaatouq, Abdullah

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Understanding and improving social factors in education: a computational social science approach by Gillani, N, Eynon, R

Caveat emptor, computational social science: Large-scale missing data in a widely-published Reddit corpus by Gaffney, Devin, Matias, J. Nathan

“…As researchers use computational methods to study complex social behaviors at scale, the validity of this computational social science depends on the integrity of the data. …”
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Big data in social and psychological science : theoretical and methodological issues by Qiu, Lin, Chan, Sarah Hian May, Chan, David

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The Wikipedia news network: understanding collective response to current events through the internet’s encyclopaedia by Gildersleve, P

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Network structure, brokerage, and framing: how the internet and social media facilitate high-risk collective action by Etling, B

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Likelihood-free Bayesian inference for dynamic, stochastic simulators in the social sciences by Dyer, J

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Does big data serve policy? Not without context. An experiment with in silico social science by Graziul, Chris, Belikov, Alexander, Chattopadyay, Ishanu, Chen, Ziwen, Fang, Hongbo, Girdhar, Anuraag, Jia, Xiaoshuang, Krafft, P. M., Kleiman-Weiner, Max, Lewis, Candice, Liang, Chen, Muchovej, John, Vientós, Alejandro

“…Together, these lessons suggest how different a policy-oriented computational social science would be than the computational social science we have inherited. …”
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Quantitative approaches to the network problem in program design and evaluation (case study: entrepreneurship) by Richman, J

“…</p> <p>This thesis develops a novel technique for using computational social science to design and evaluate social and economic programs. …”

Deep transfer learning with Bayesian inference by Gambardella, A

“…Lastly, in the computational social science domain, we show that knowledge can be transferred from human-designed models in order to detect malicious activity targeting a ranking algorithm.…”

Measuring happiness increases happiness by Roessler, Jannik, Gloor, Peter A.

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Computational history : from big data to big simulations by Nanetti, Andrea, Cheong, Siew Ann

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Social fMRI : measuring and designing social mechanisms using mobile phones by Aharony, Nadav

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Early prediction of movie box office success based on Wikipedia activity big data. by Mestyán, M, Yasseri, T, Kertész, J

“…Use of socially generated "big data" to access information about collective states of the minds in human societies has become a new paradigm in the emerging field of computational social science. A natural application of this would be the prediction of the society's reaction to a new product in the sense of popularity and adoption rate. …”

The anatomy of Reddit: an overview of academic research by Medvedev, A, Lambiotte, R, Delvenne, J

“…Importantly, the datasets generated by the activity of the users are often openly available for researchers, in contrast to other sources of data in computational social science. In this survey, we map the main research directions that arose in recent years and focus primarily on the most popular platform, Reddit. …”

Bots as Virtual Confederates: Design and Ethics by Krafft, Peter M., Macy, Michael, Pentland, Alex "Sandy"

“…The use of bots as virtual confederates in online field experiments holds extreme promise as a new methodological tool in computational social science. However, this potential tool comes with inherent ethical challenges. …”
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Public attitudes towards social media field experiments by Straub, VJ, Burton, JW, Geers, M, Lorenz-Spreen, P

“…The growing use of social media field experiments demands a rethink of current research ethics in computational social science and psychological research. Here, we provide an exploratory empirical account of key user concerns and outline a number of critical discussions that need to take place to protect participants and help researchers to make use of the novel opportunities of digital data collection and field studies. …”