Growing Artificial Societies: Social Science from the Bottom Up
, by Joshua M. Epstein and Robert L. Axtell (1996)
, by Joshua M. Epstein and Robert L. Axtell (1996)
Awesome Computational Social Science
A list of awesome resources for Computational Social Science
This page lists names, links and short descriptions. The original list on GitHub is the source and belongs to its authors.
Books
Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age
, by Duncan J. Watts (2004)
Networks, Crowds, and Markets: Reasoning About a Highly Connected World
, by David Easley and Jon Kleinberg (2010)
In 2 lists
Everything is Obvious
, by Duncan J. Watts (2011)
Agent_Zero: Toward Neurocognitive Foundations for Generative Social Science
, by Joshua M. Epstein (2014)
Social Phenomena: From Data Analysis to Models
, edited by Bruno Gonçalves, Nicola Perra (2015)
Computational Social Sciences
, Springer book series (2015-2023)
Big Data Is Not a Monolith
, edited by Cassidy R. Sugimoto, Hamid R. Ekbia, and Michael Mattioli (2016)
Bit By Bit: Social Research in the Digital Age
, by Matthew J. Salganik (2017)
Decoding the Social World: Data Science and the Unintended Consequences of Communication
, by Sandra González-Bailón (2017)
Digital Sociology: The Reinvention of Social Research
, by Noortje Marres (2017)
How Behavior Spreads: The Science of Complex Contagions
, by Damon Centola (2018)
The Model Thinker: What You Need to Know to Make Data Work for You
, by Scott E. Page (2018)
What is Digital Sociology?
, by Neil Selwyn (2019)
The Oxford Handbook of Networked Communication
, edited by Brooke Foucault Welles and Sandra González-Bailón (2020)
Research Exposed: How Empirical Social Science Gets Done in the Digital Age
, edited by Eszter Hargittai (2020)
Retooling Politics: How Digital Media Are Shaping Democracy
, by Andreas Jungherr, Gonzalo Rivero, and Daniel Gayo-Avello (2020)
Sociologia Digital: uma breve introdução
, by Leonardo Nascimento (2020)
A First Course in Network Science
, by Filippo Menczer, Santo Fortunato, Clayton A. Davis (2020)
How Humans Judge Machines
, by Cesar A. Hidalgo, Diana Orghian, Jordi Albo Canals, Filipa De Almeida, Natalia Martin (2021)
The Science of Science
, by Dashun Wang and Albert-László Barabási (2021)
Doing Computational Social Science - A Practical Introduction
, by John McLevey (2021)
Big Data and Social Science: Data Science Methods and Tools for Research and Practice, 2nd Edition
, by Ian Foster, Rayid Ghani, Ron S. Jarmin, Frauke Kreuter and Julia Lane (2021)
Text as Data: A New Framework for Machine Learning and the Social Sciences
,, by Justin Grimmer, Margaret E. Roberts, and Brandon M. Stewart (2022)
Computational Analysis of Communication
, by Wouter van Atteveldt, Damian Trilling, and Carlos Arcila Calderon (2022)
The SAGE Handbook of Social Media Research Methods
, edited by Anabel Quan-Haase and Luke Sloan (2022)
Handbook of Computational Social Science Volume 1 & 2
, edited by Uwe Engel, Anabel Quan-Haase, Sunny Xun Liu, Lars Lyberg (2022)
Research Handbook on Digital Sociology
, edited by Jan Skopek (2023)
Handbook of Computational Social Science for Policy
, by Eleonora Bertoni, Matteo Fontana, Lorenzo Gabrielli, Serena Signorelli, Michele Vespe (2023)
Computational Thinking for Social Scientists
, by Jae Yeon Kim (2023)
Computational Thinking and Social Science
, by Matti Nelimarkka (2023)
Conferences
Conference on Complex Systems
, in particular the Computational Social Science satellite
EPSA - European Political Science Association Conference
(Methods division)
ICA - Annual International Communication Association Conference
(Methods Division)
Computational Social Science Events Worldwide
, Public Calendar
Education >Online Courses and Material
CSC2552 Topics in Computational Social Science: AI, Data, and Society
Seminar course taught by Ashton Anderson at the University of Toronto, Canada.
Course on Introduction to Computational Social Science
Master level course materials by Aliakbar Akbaritabar at the University of Rostock
Course on Computational approaches to migration research
Master level course materials by Aliakbar Akbaritabar at the University of Rostock
NLP+CSS 201 Tutorials
Tutorials for advanced natural language processing methods designed for computational social science research.
SICSS Learning Materials
Open source teaching and learning resources for computational social science
Social and Economic Networks: Models and Analysis
Online course on social and economic networks taught by Matthew O. Jackson
Toolkit for Digital Methods
A wiki of resources for digital methods in Social Sciences
UCCSS: University of California Computational Social Science
Multidisciplinary, multi-perspective, and multi-method guide on how to better understand society and human behavior with modern research tool.
Education >Videos and Lectures
A gentle introduction to network science
, by Renaud Lambiotte, University of Oxford (2018)
Introduction to computational social science
, by Matthew J. Salganik, Princeton University (2019)
Python for Computational Social Science and Digital Humanities
, by Christopher Cameron, Cornell University (2023)
Education >Workshops
NLP + CSS
a series of workshops on natural language processing (NLP) and computational social science (CSS).
Topics in Digital and Computational Demography
, PhD level, one week course.
Education >University Course Programs
BA/BSc in Data Science and Society (DSS)
, Central European University, AUT
BA Data Science and Economics
, University of Manchester, GBR
BSc Social Sciences with Data Science
, University College London, GBR
Bachelor of Social Sciences in Data Science and Policy Studies
, Chinese University of Hong Kong, HKG
Bachelor of Social Sciences in Social Data Science
, Lingnan University, HKG
BSc in Computational Social Science
, University College Dublin, IRE
Bachelor Computational Social Science
, University of Amsterdam, NLD
BS in Social Data Science
, University of Maryland, USA
BS in Social Data Analytics
, Pennsylvania State University, USA
BS in Computational Social Science
, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Master Computational Social System
, TU Graz, AUT
Master of Science program in Social Data Science
, Central European University, AUT
Master in Computational Social Sciences
at the University of Lucerne, CHE
MSc in Computational Social Science
, Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen), CHN
Master of Data Science for Public Policy
, Hertie School, DEU
Master Social and Economic Data Science
, University of Konstanz, DEU
Mannheim Master in Social Data Science
, University of Mannheim, DEU
M.Sc. Quantitative Data Science Methods: Psychometrics, Econometrics and Machine Learning
, University of Tübingen, DEU
Master Computational Social Systems
(This course of study is being phased out), RWTH Aachen, DEU
Master of Science (MSc) in Social Data Science
, University of Copenhagen, DNK
Master in Computational Social Science
, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, ESP
Master of Contemporary Societies
, track on social data science, University of Helsinki, FIN
MSc&T “Data and Economics for Public Policy”
, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, FRA
Master in Data Science for Social Sciences
, Toulouse School of Economics, FRA
MSc Applied Social Data Science
, London School of Economics and Political Science, GBR
MSc Data Analytics and Social Statistics (Online)
, University of Manchester, GBR
MSc Data Science and Public Policy
, University College London, GBR
MSc Human and Social Data Science
, University of Sussex, GBR
MSc Social and Geographic Data Science
, University College London, GBR
MSc Social Data Science
, University of Exeter, GBR
MSc Social Data Science
, University of Oxford, GBR
MSc Social Research Methods and Statistics with Computational Social Science
, University of Manchester, GBR
MSc in Social Data Science
, Corvinus University of Budapest, HUN
Masters in Computational Social Science
, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Jodhpur, IND
MSc Politics and Data Science
, University College Dublin, IRE
MSc Social Data Science
, University College Dublin, IRE
MSc/PG Diploma Applied Social Data Science
, Trinity College Dublin, IRE
Master programme Data Science for Economics and Health
, University of Milan, ITA
Master in Social Data Science
, University of Milano-Bicocca, ITA
Master in Social Sciences for a Digital Society
, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, NLD
Master's Programme Computational Social Science
, Linköping University, SWE
Master Computational Social Science
, Koç University, TUR
Master of Management Science and Engineering
, Stanford University, USA
Master of Computational Social Science (MaCSS)
, University of California Berkeley, USA
M.S. in Computational Social Science
, University of California San Diego, USA
M.A. in Computational Social Science
, University of Chicago, USA
M.S. in Computational Analysis & Public Policy
, University of Chicago, USA
Master of Science in Data Analytics & Computational Social Science
, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies: Computational Social Science Concentration
, George Mason University, USA
Master of Science in Data Science for Public Policy
, Georgetown University, USA
MA in Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences: Data Science Focus
, Columbia University, USA
Master of Science in Public Policy and Data Science
, University of Southern California, USA
Master of Science in Survey and Data Science
, University of Michigan, USA
Master of Science in Social Policy + Data Analytics for Social Policy Certificate
, University of Pennsylvania, USA
PhD in Computational Social Science
, Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen), CHN
DPhil Social Data Science
, University of Oxford, GBR
PhD Quantitative and Computational Social Science
, University College Dublin, IRE
PhD in Information
, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
Complex Networks and Systems track of the PhD in Informatics
, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA
Network Science PhD Program
, Northeastern University, Boston, USA
PhD in Information Science
, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA
PhD Program in Social & Engineering Systems (SES)
, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA
PhD in Information Sciences
, University of Illinois, Champaign, USA
Doctor of Philosophy in Information Studies (PhD)
, University of Maryland, College Park, USA
Ph.D. in Information Science
, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Doctoral Program in Communication
, University of California, Davis, USA
Ph.D. Specialization in Computational Social Science
, University of California, San Diego, USA
Ph.D. in Information and Media
, Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA
Ph.D. in Information Technology Management
, Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA
PhD in Media, Technology, and Society (MTS)
, Northwestern University, Evanston, USA
Dual Ph.D. Program in Computer Science and Communication: Technology and Social Behavior (TSB)
, Northwestern University, Evanston, USA
PhD Program at the Kellogg School of Management
, Northwestern University, Evanston, USA
PhD in Computational Social Science
, George Mason University, Fairfax, USA
Ph.D. in Communication and Information Sciences
, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, USA
Information Science Ph.D. program
, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA
Doctoral Program in Industrial & Systems Engineering (ISE)
, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
Communication (PhD)
, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
Ph.D. Program in Communication, Information, and Media
, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, USA
Ph.D. Specialization in Data Science
, Columbia University, New York, USA
Doctorate in Communication
, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
PhD in Societal Computing
, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA
Doctorate in Informaiton Science
, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
PhD degree in Management Science and Engineering (MS&E)
, Stanford University, USA
PhD in Information
, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA
Research Groups
Data Science and AI Lab
, Abu Dhabi, ARE
Computational Social Science Methods Research Group
, QUT Digital Media Research Centre, Brisbane, AUS
Computational Social Science Lab
, Sydney, AUS
Computational Communication Science Lab
, Vienna, AUT
Digital Humanities Lab at UFBA
, Salvador, BRA
Computational Social Science Lab
, University of Toronto, Toronto, CAN
Centre for Computational Social Science
, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, CAN
Professorship of Computational Social Science (COSS)
, ETH Zürich, CHE
Social Networks Lab
, ETH Zürich, CHE
Computational Communication and Social Science Research Group
, University of Zurich, CHE
Institute of Computational Social Science
, CUHK-Shenzhen, CHN
CSS Lab RWTH Aachen
, Aachen, DEU
Computational Social Science Team, Centre Marc Bloch
, Berlin, DEU
Data Science Lab, Hertie School
, Berlin, DEU
Methods Lab, Weizenbaum-Institut
, Berlin, DEU
Social Data Laboratory
, Bremen, DEU
CSS Department at GESIS
, Cologne, DEU
CSS - SynoSys
, Dresden, DEU
Research Cluster Computational Social Science, Zeppelin University
, Friedrichshafen, DEU
Computational Communication Science Group
, Ilmenau, DEU
Chair of Data Science in the Economic and Social Sciences
, Mannheim, DEU
Lehrbereich Computational Social Sciences
, LMU Munich, DEU
Research Unit Computational Communication Science
, LMU Munich, DEU
Computational Social Science and Big Data TUM Munich
, TUM Munich, DEU
Department of Digital and Computational Demography
, Rostock, DEU
DATALAB - Center for Digital Social Research
, Aarhus, DNK
Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS)
, Copenhagen, DNK
NEtwoRks, Data, and Society (NERDS)
, Copenhagen, DNK
In 2 lists
Computational Social Science Group
, Tartu, EST
Computational Social Science Group
, Aalto University, Espoo, FIN
Centre for Social Data Science
, Helsinki, FIN
Social Data Science Lab at Cardiff University
, Cardiff, GBR
Centre for Data, Culture & Society
, Edinburgh, GBR
Oxford Internet Institute
, Oxford, GBR
Machine Learning and Economics Group
, Oxford, GBR
Social Data Institute
, University College London, GBR
Social Data Science Lab
, Queen Mary University of London, GBR
Computational Social Science Lab
, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, HKG
Web Mining Lab
, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, HKG
Computational Social Sciences and Law Lab
, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, HKG
Computational Social Sciences Lab
, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, HKG
RC2S2 Research Center for Computational Social Science
, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, HUN
Connected_Politics Lab
, Dublin, IRL
Computational Social Science Centre (CSSC)
, Bologna, ITA
Behave Lab
, Milan, ITA
Center of Data Science and Complexity for Society (CDCS)
, Sapienza University, Rome, ITA
Center for Computational Social Science and Human Dynamics (C2S2)
, University of Trento and Bruno Kessler Foundation, Trento, ITA
Mobile and Social Computing Lab (MobS Lab)
, Bruno Kessler Foundation, Trento, ITA
CENTAI Institute
, Turin, ITA
Center for Computational Social Science
, Kobe University, Kobe, JPN
Computational Social Science Lab
, Institute of Science Tokyo, Tokyo, JPN
Social and Behavioural Data Science Centre
, Amsterdam, NLD
Societal Analytics Lab
, VU Amsterdam, NLD
Political Data Science (PODS) Research Group
, Oslo, NOR
Centre for Computational Social Science and Humanities
, National University of Singapore, SGP
Swedish Excellence Centre for Computational Social Science
, Linköping, SWE
UU-InfoLab (Uppsala University Information Laboratory)
, Uppsala, SWE
Center for Computational Social Sciences
, Koç University, Istanbul, TUR
Viral Lab (VRLLab)
, Sabanci University, Istanbul, TUR
Communication Data and Network Analytics Lab
, Academia Sinica, Taipei, TWN
Observatory on Social Media
, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA
In 2 lists
Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research
, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA
Soda (Social Data and AI) Lab
, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA
Lazerlab
, Northeastern University, Boston, USA
Laboratory for the Modeling of Biological and Socio-Technical Systems (MOBS Lab)
, Northeastern University, Boston, USA
Network Science Institute (NetSI)
, Northeastern University, Boston, USA
Al-Adala Lab
, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA
Colorado Laboratory for Users, Media, and Networks (COLUMN)
, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA
MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS)
, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA
Center for Spatial Data Science (CSDS)
, University of Chicago, Chicago, USA
Knowledge Lab
, University of Chicago, Chicago, USA
Social Data Science Center (SoDa)
, University of Maryland, College Park, USA
MESO (Modeling Emergent Social Order) Lab
, Ohio State University, Columbus, USA
Computational Communication Research Lab (C^2 or C-square)
, University of California, Davis, USA
Quello Center
, Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA
Computational Journalism Lab
, Northwestern University, Evanston, USA
Delta Lab
, Northwestern University, Evanston, USA
Lab on Innovation, Networks, and Knowledge (LINK)
, Northwestern University, Evanston, USA
People, Space, and Algorithms (PSA) Research Group
, Northwestern University, Evanston, USA
Science of Networks in Communities (SONIC) Lab
, Northwestern University, Evanston, USA
Center for AI in Society(CAIS)
, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
HUmans | MAchines | Networks | Social Systems Lab (HUMANS)
, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
In 2 lists
Computational Social Science Institute at UMass
, Massachusetts Amherst, USA
Computational Social Science Lab
, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, USA
Working Group on Computational Social Science
, Columbia University, New York, USA
Center for Social Media and Politics (CSMaP)
, New York Univiersity, New York, USA
Center for Information Networks and Democracy(CIND)
, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
Computational Social Science Lab (CSSLab)
, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
Network Dynamics Group
, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
Center for Computational Analysis of Social and Organizational Systems (CASOS)
, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA
PITT Computational Social Dynamics Lab
, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA
PITT Initiative on Computational Social Science
, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA
Santa Fe Institute (SFI)
, Santa Fe, USA
In 2 lists
Community Data Science Collective
, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
PhD degree in Management Science and Engineering (MS&E)
, Stanford University, USA
Center for Social Data Analytics (C-SoDA)
, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA
Computational Social Science Lab
, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA
Journals
In 2 lists
In 2 lists
Journals >Journals for Software Submissions
Selected Papers
From Factors to Actors: Computational Sociology and Agent-Based Modeling
by Michael W. Macy and Robert Willer (2002)
Life in the network: the coming age of computational social science
by David Lazer et al. (2009)
Critical Questions for Big Data
by Dana Boyd and Kate Crawford (2012)
A 61-million-person experiment in social influence and political mobilization
by Robert M. Bond et al. (2012)
Manifesto of computational social science
by R. Conte, N. Gilbert, G. Bonelli, C. Cioffi-Revilla, G. Deffuant, J. Kertesz, V. Loreto, S. Moat, J. -P. Nadal, A. Sanchez, A. Nowak, A. Flache, M. San Miguel & D. Helbing (2012)
Digital Footprints: Opportunities and Challenges for Online Social Research
by Scott A. Golder and Michael W. Macy (2014)
Social media for large studies of behavior
by Derek Ruths and Jürgen Pfeffer (2014)
Sociology in the Era of Big Data: The Ascent of Forensic Social Science
by Daniel A. McFarland, Kevin Lewis & Amir Goldberg (2016)
Installing computational social science: Facing the challenges of new information and communication technologies in…
by Raphael H. Heiberger & Jan R. Riebling (2016)
Computational Social Science Methodology, Anyone?
by Joop J. Hox (2017)
The empiricist’s challenge: Asking meaningful questions in political science in the age of big data
by Andreas Jungherr and Yannis Theocharis (2017)
Computational Social Science ≠ Computer Science + Social Data
by Hanna Wallach (2018)
When Communication Meets Computation: Opportunities, Challenges, and Pitfalls in Computational Communication Science
by Wouter van Atteveldt and Tai-Quan Peng (2018)
Analytical sociology and computational social science
by Keuschnigg, M., Lovsjö, N. & Hedström, P. (2018)
Computation and the Sociological Imagination
by James Evans and Jacob G. Foster (2019)
Machine Learning for Sociology
by Mario Molina and Filiz Garip (2019)
Social data: Biases, methodological pitfalls, and ethical boundaries
by Alexandra Olteanu, Carlos Castillo, Fernando Diaz and Emre Kıcıman (2019)
Computational social science: Obstacles and opportunities
by David Lazer et al. (2020) (open access version)
Computational Social Science and the Study of Political Communication
by Yannis Theocharis and Andreas Jungherr (2020)
Computational Social Science and Sociology
by Achim Edelmann, Tom Wolff, Danielle Montagne and Christopher A. Bail (2020)
Machine Learning for Social Science: An Agnostic Approach
by Justin Grimmer, Margaret E. Roberts, and Brandon M. Stewart (2021)
Measuring algorithmically infused societies
by Claudia Wagner, Markus Strohmaier, Alexandra Olteanu, Emre Kıcıman, Noshir Contractor & Tina Eliassi-Rad (2021)
The data revolution in social science needs qualitative research
by Nikolitsa Grigoropoulou & Mario L. Small (2022)
Software >Python
Awesome Python
(other lists: 1, 2, 3) for general resources in Python
In 15 listsDetails
Software >Tutorials
Miscellaneous
Relevant Awesome Lists
Awesome Community Detection
Comprehensive list of community detection papers with title, authors, link to the paper and reference implementation.
In 3 lists
Awesome Data Science with Python
(another)
In 2 lists
Awesome Data Science
An open source DataScience repository to learn and apply for real world problems.
In 5 listsDetails
Awesome Deep Learning
A curated list of awesome Deep Learning tutorials, projects and communities.
In 9 listsDetails
Awesome Jupyter
Jupyter
In 4 listsDetails
Awesome Machine Learning
The definitive curated list of machine learning frameworks, libraries and software organized by language. Covers Python, C++, Java, JavaScript, and more with comprehensive coverage of the ML ecosystem. CC0-1.0 licensed.
In 15 listsDetails
Awesome MySQL
A curated list of awesome MySQL software, libraries, tools and resources.
In 5 listsDetails
Awesome Network Analysis
An awesome list of network analysis resources.
In 6 listsDetails
Awesome NLP
(another one)
In 6 listsDetails
Awesome Notebooks
Data & AI notebook templates catalog organized by tools.
In 4 listsDetails
In 2 lists
Awesome Python
(other lists: 1, 2, 3) for general resources in Python
In 15 listsDetails
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Awesome PHP
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