A Computational Social Science Framework for Text Analysis and Social Media Modeling
Abstract
The social sciences investigate human and social dynamics and organization
at all levels of analysis (consilience), including cognition, decision
making, behavior, groups, organizations, societies, and the world system.
Computational social science is the integrated, interdisciplinary pursuit of
social inquiry with emphasis on information processing and through the
medium of advanced computation. The main computational social science areas
are automated information extraction systems, social network analysis,
social geographic information systems (GIS), complexity modeling, and social
simulation models. This summer school will focus on automated data
extraction algorithms and related modeling systems. Just like Galileo
exploited the telescope as the key instrument for observing and gaining a
deeper and empirically truthful understanding of the physical universe,
computational social scientists are learning to exploit the advanced and
increasingly powerful instruments of computation to see beyond the visible
spectrum of more traditional disciplinary analyses.