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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"Computational Social Science"”.
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EXPLORING BITCOIN WITH COMPUTATIONAL SOCIAL SCIENCE METHODS
La tesi indaga l’emergere, l’evoluzione e le dinamiche interne di Bitcoin come sistema sociotecnico ed economico. Concepito come un’alternativa radicale alla finanza tradizionale, Bitcoin nasce con l’obiettivo di decentralizzare il sistema economico, eliminare gli intermediari finanziari e …
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Challenges of computational social science analysis with NLP methods
Computational Social Science (CSS) is an emerging research area at the intersection of social science and computer science, where problems of societal relevance can be addressed by novel computational methods. With the recent advances in machine learning and natural language processing as well as …
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Pipelines for Computational Social Science Experiments and Model Building
There has been significant growth in online social science experiments in order to understand behavior at-scale, with finer-grained data collection. Considerable work is required to perform data analytics for custom experiments. In this dissertation, we design and build composable and extensible …
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High Performance Computational Social Science Modeling of Networked Populations
Dynamics of social processes in populations, such as the spread of emotions, influence, opinions, and mass movements (often referred to individually and collectively as contagions), are increasingly studied because of their economic, social, and political impacts. Moreover, multiple contagions may …
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Computing the Social: How Capitalism and Taste Shape Computational Social Science
… in a rich literature on the factors that shape computational research. Based on 24 months of digital ethnography of a university laboratory and in-depth interviews with its members, this dissertation makes two arguments. First, it asserts that disciplinary aesthetic orders are significant …
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Complex systems and a computational social science perspective on the labor market
… we explore the benefits of leveraging tools from computational social science, network science, and data-driven theories to measure the flow of opportunities and information in the context of the labor market. First, we investigate our key hypothesis, which is that opportunity/information flow …
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A Computational Analysis of Civil Resistance Dynamics and Outcomes
… resistance? To address these questions, I take a computational social science approach to examine properties of civil resistance that are not easily captured with standard econometrics or country case studies. I implement a set of computational methods, some of them dynamic with emergent …
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Social fMRI : measuring and designing social mechanisms using mobile phones
A key challenge of data-driven social science is the gathering of high quality multi-dimensional datasets. A second challenge relates to the design and execution of social experiments in the real world that are as reliable as those within a controlled laboratory, yet yield more practical results. …
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Reality hedging : social system approach for understanding economic and financial dynamics
… to use big-data driven approaches and tools from Computational Social Science for understanding, monitoring and designing economic and financial systems. The center idea in this approach is to treat economic and financial systems as systems of connected people. We are entering a new age where many …
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The constant atlas : mapping public data for individuals and their cities
… lives. In the urban informatics context and in computational social science, projects use data collected about our behavior in the urban environment to solve problems including traffic congestion and public safety, the creation of targeted advertising, and the development of entire …
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Measuring and Enhancing the Resilience of Interdependent Power Systems, Emergency Services, and Social Communities
… such as power systems and emergency services and social networks is critical for building a resilient community. As a result, we require metrics that account for both the social and infrastructure aspects of the community. While the literature on critical infrastructures such as power systems …
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Entrepreneurial Action as a Spatiotemporal Process in the Aftermath of Disasters
… models and operationlize them using the computational social science approach to investigate both the temporal dimension of entrepreneurial action as a process of opportunity identification, evaluation and exploitation over time, and the spatial dimension of entrepreneurial action as a …
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Social patterns in knowledge evolution and health policy
Using tools from data-driven computational social science, this thesis analyzes and discusses social patterns in knowledge evolution and health policy. Knowledge can be considered to be a network of interconnected concepts, hence, understanding its latent topological structure can reflect many …
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Human Behavior in Context: Analyzing Routines and Interactions Through Multi-Source Behavioral Data
… contexts. This development has given rise to Computational Social Science, a new discipline that aims to uncover patterns in human behaviour through an inherently multidisciplinary approach. From analyzing collective behaviour with complex networks, to developing computational models for …
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Governments in the spotlight? : on the use and impacts of freedom of information laws and proactive publication of government data
… My work also shows the potential of applying computational social science methods to FOI requests to study the impact of major changes in government policies on people, and rights infringements.
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A computational approach toward understanding the political language of ideologically opposing groups - from historical newspapers to social media
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2026-08-01
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Into the city: A Multi-Disciplinary Investigation of Urban Life
… within a broad range of fields, from computer science to urban-planning and criminology, as well as to policymakers. The thesis is structured in two parts. In the first part, we investigate what creates urban life. We operationalize the theory of Jane Jacobs, one of the most famous authors in …
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Understanding social influence using network analysis and machine learning
… crime and decrease poverty, we will need better computational models of how society works. In order to make computational social science a useful reality, we will need generative models of how social influence sprouts at the interpersonal level and how it leads to emergent social behavior. In …
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ALJI: Active Listening Journal Interaction
Depression is a crippling burden on a great many people, and it is often well hidden. Mental health professionals are able to treat depression, but the general public is not well versed in recognizing depression symptoms or assessing their own mental health. Active Listening Journal Interaction …
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Understanding Persuasive Communication: The Role of Heuristic Thinking, Context, and Debiasing in the Evaluation of Online Political Information
… which it is possible to access and exchange it. Social Networking Platforms (SNPs) – such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube – are of particular interest in this sense, having become fully-fledged information environments themselves in the last decade, with an increasing number of individuals …
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