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Never heard of "computational social scientists" before. Seems to be CS people working on social issues. The reference list seems to be exclusively CS, no socia
by temp8964 5y ago
Never heard of "computational social scientists" before. Seems to be CS people working on social issues. The reference list seems to be exclusively CS, no social science at all.
Maybe they should just call themselves computer scientists.
- Anon84 5y ago(former) computational social scientist here... This particular bunch (I know several of the authors personally) are a bit more CS oriented, but CSS people do run the gamut from Theoretical/Computational Physicists (like yours truly) to CS and more traditional Social Science types. Essentially, and this is what brought me the field, we were doing Data Science before such a thing had a name and trying to answer behavioral/social questions using large (at least for the time) datasets along with some CS/ML skills. Check out my google scholar to see the kind of stuff we played with https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=rtKaL18AAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=rtKaL18AAAAJ&hl=en...
- andreskytt 5y agoThis is great stuff! I think I’ll be in touch. I’ve come from systems perspective to social sciences and have found it tremendously hard to gain traction - the data mindset is just so different. Finally got some things published but basically gave up as nobody seemed to care. Would love to pick some complexity related research back up as a hobby