Interview with Concept Grant 2020 winner: Knowsi
SAGE has announced the 2020 winners of its Concept Grant program, which provides funding for innovative software solutions that support social science research. In this blog we interview Andrew Lovett-Barron, the creator of the winning tool, Knowsi; a portal for researchers and participants to manage their consent relationship.
Making sensitive text data accessible for computational social science
Text is everywhere, and everything is text. More textual data than ever before are available to computational social scientists—be it in the form of digitized books, communication traces on social media platforms, or digital scientific articles. Researchers in academia and industry increasingly use text data to understand human behavior and to measure patterns in language. Techniques from natural language processing have created a fertile soil to perform these tasks and to make inferences based on text data on a large scale.