My notes on Mohr, J.W. (2015) Big Data/Big Theory – Part 1. Perspectives 37(2) and Mohr, J.W. (2015) Big Data/Big Theory – Part 2. Perspectives 38(1) It’s often assumed that big data poses a threat to sociological theorising in the traditional sense, with the infamous Wired article on the ‘end of theory’ standing as emblematic of […]
Tag: computational social science
An interesting post by Fabio Rojas on the different ways in which the label ‘computational sociology’ has been used: Statistics – for the baby boomer generation of social scientists, “computing in socioal science” meant applied statistics. Remember, it requires a lot of knowledge and skill to store data and estimate models on computes with limited […]
An interesting footnote in On Sociology by John Goldthorpe speculates on the possibility of Sociology’s collapse. From pg 9: Such a collapse could conceivably come about through a series of ‘secessions’. For example, some university departments of sociology have already became in effect departments of ‘cultural studies’, and this could then prompt sociologists committed to […]
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS International Conference on Computational Social Science Finlandia Hall, Helsinki, Finland, 8-11 June 2015 WEBSITE http://www.iccss2015.eu/ IMPORTANT DATES Extended deadline for abstract submission: 7 December 2014 Opening of registration: 15 January 2015 Conference dates: 8-11 June 2015 EVENT OVERVIEW The conference will bring together scientists from different areas to meet and discuss problems […]
COMPUTATIONAL SOCIAL SCIENCE CONFERENCE Wed 11 – Fri 13 June 2014, University of Warwick, UK http://compsocsci.eu/ The increasing availability of large quantities of human behavioural data has drawn the interest of researchers across the social sciences, the natural sciences and engineering. This conference aims to bring together this interdisciplinary community to share perspectives and identify […]
COMPUTATIONAL SOCIAL SCIENCE CONFERENCE Wed 11 – Fri 13 June 2014, University of Warwick, UK http://compsocsci.eu/ The increasing availability of large quantities of human behavioural data has drawn the interest of researchers across the social sciences, the natural sciences and engineering. This conference aims to bring together this interdisciplinary community to share perspectives and identify opportunities to […]
COMPUTATIONAL SOCIAL SCIENCE CONFERENCEWed 11 – Fri 13 June 2014, University of Warwick, UKhttp://compsocsci.eu/The increasing availability of large quantities of human behavioural data has drawn the interest of researchers across the social sciences, the natural sciences and engineering. This conference aims to bring together this interdisciplinary community to share perspectives and identify opportunities to gain new insights […]
COMPUTATIONAL SOCIAL SCIENCE CONFERENCEWed 11 – Fri 13 June 2014, University of Warwick, UKhttp://compsocsci.eu/The increasing availability of large quantities of human behavioural data has drawn the interest of researchers across the social sciences, the natural sciences and engineering. This conference aims to bring together this interdisciplinary community to share perspectives and identify opportunities to gain new insights […]
