Notable Scholars and Business Leaders share Research and Inspiration with Next Generation of Computational Social Scientists
The first Summer Institute in Computational Social Science hosted at a Historically Black College or University featured a panel of guest speakers who inspired participants with their research and professional trajectory. Lecture topics include re-entry into the job force for incarcerated people, financial statuses of small businesses in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic, social identities and systems of power, and discriminatory bias within technology.
Innovative “Bite-Sized Lunchtime Talks” Offer Unique Opportunity for SICSS-Howard/Mathematica Participants To See Data at Work
SICSS-Howard/Mathematica participants had the benefit of novel Bite-Sized Lunchtime Talks during the inaugural SICSS at a Historically Black College or University. The purpose of this SICSS-H/M specific site innovation was to introduce participants to people and organizations doing impactful and complementary work with data.
Unlocking crime data for research: An update from 2019's SAGE Concept Grant winners
Text Wash uses machine learning and natural language processing to unlock previously untapped crime data, that so far has been inaccessible to research due to the need to anonymize the personally identifiable information it contains.
Roundup: #text2data - new ways of reading
‘From text to data - new ways of reading’ was a 2-day event organised by the National Library of Sweden, the National Archives and Swe-Clarin. The conference brought together librarians, digital collection curators, and scholars in digital humanities and computational social science to talk about the tools and challenges involved in large scale text collection and analysis.
Image tagging in SAGE Journals - part one
At SAGE, we recently asked the question how could Cloud Vision APIs be applied to support scholarly publishing? For example, can they be used for new products or product features, to improve the editorial workflow, or to otherwise enhance SAGE operations or quality of life?
Using Data to Help Migrants Find Work
The topic of refugees in america seems to be getting swept under the rug, however the issue is still very prominent and needs solving before getting out of hand. By using an algorithm based on demographics and census data new research tries to put an ease to these questions and offers real and modern day solutions to this debate. The one caveat is it requires those in positions of privilege to help.