Pre-conference on Politics & Computational Social Science 2018 - Roundup
Ahead of this year’s APSA general meeting, we attended the Politics and Computational Social Science (PaCSS) pre-conference, hosted at Northeastern University. The event brought together political scientists working with large-scale data sets and emerging computational methods.
IC2S2 - Sunday Roundup
The final day of IC2S2 kicked off with SAGE Ocean's Katie Metzler introducing the Ethics in Computational Social Science Panel, featuring Dr. Jake Metcalf, Dr. Laura Noren and Dr. Michelle Meyer.
IC2S2 - Saturday Roundup
Saturday started off with a fascinating keynote from Damon Centola on How Behavior Spreads. He talked about how weak and strong ties affect the spread of both simple and complex
IC2S2 - Friday Roundup
The SAGE Ocean team are currently at IC2S2 - the 4th Annual International Conference on Computational Social Science, which is taking place at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
Here's a round up of the action on Friday.
Sharing Story Ownership in Qualitative Research
Whose story do you tell in a study? To whom does the story belong? How do you write a research story?
4 Steps to Designing an Award-Winning Poster
A good academic conference poster serves a dual purpose: it is both an effective networking tool and a means by which to articulately communicate your research. But many academics fail to produce a truly visually arresting conference poster and so opportunities to garner interest and make connections are lost. Tullio Rossi offers guidance on how to produce an outstanding conference poster, considering the scripting, concept, design, and logistics.
Six Academic Writing Habits That Boost Productivity
What’s the secret to a productive spell of writing? Chris Smith shares insights gleaned from interviews with a diverse group of academics, from which a number of common academic writing habits stood out. These range from the simple acts of scheduling and setting self-imposed deadlines, to the use of “free-writing” techniques which help authors write their way out of blocks.
The first ever Soc Sci Foo: social media, fake news, AI & much more
The first ever Social Science Foo Camp took place earlier this month, co-hosted by SAGE, O’Reilly Media and Facebook.
What Do We Write to Convey?
Professor Davina Cooper explains how to differentiate your writing style to make your work standout and be more relevant. Academic writing doesn’t necessarily aspire to represent what is, as if the material world can be imitated point for point in thought, but to create.