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8 May 2008

Videos from computational social science conference

As I have argued previously on this blog, social science is undergoing a paradigm shift, based on the availability (and purposeful creation) of large scale, high granularity, data sets on human behavior. Let me point now to the videos now available from the Conference on Computational Social Science that was hosted by IQSS that Sandy Pentland and I co-chaired last December. To recapitulate, this conference brought together a wide array of folks from the academy to talk about emerging areas of research at the intersection of computer and social sciences. This was a terrific event, and one I hope that I hope in coming years will be pointed to as having helped crystallize discussion about this area. Lots of great moments here, from Roy’s examination of the video records of the first two years of his son’s life, to Christakis’ presentation on the spread of obesity, to Contractor’s examination of virtual worlds. We also had a panel on the tough privacy and human subjects issues that this research poses (perhaps the key hurdle this area wrestle with at this stage), with presentations by the heads of the IRBs at Harvard and MIT, and discussions by Van Alstyne on handling e-mail data, and by Gutmann on handling geocoded data.

Posted by David Lazer at May 8, 2008 8:16 AM

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