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    <title>Should social science be more solution-oriented? : Nature Human Behaviour</title>
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    <title>Adapting computational text analysis to social science (and vice versa) | Big Data &amp; Society</title>
    <dc:date>2015-12-05T13:36:52+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Social scientists and computer scientist are divided by small differences in perspective and not by any significant disciplinary divide. In the field of text analysis, several such differences are noted: social scientists often use unsupervised models to explore corpora, whereas many computer scientists employ supervised models to train data; social scientists hold to more conventional causal notions than do most computer scientists, and often favor intense exploitation of existing algorithms, whereas computer scientists focus more on developing new models; and computer scientists tend to trust human judgment more than social scientists do. These differences have implications that potentially can improve the practice of social science.

Based on my admittedly fortunate experience collaborating with computer scientists on both research and teaching, I can report that the era of the “two cultures” (Snow, 1959) is over.1 Instead of epistemological chasms, I have found modest differences in orientation, of which I shall mention three, reflecting computer scientists’ and social scientists’ respective intellectual traditions. These differences require social scientists to do some extra work to adapt the powerful tools that computer scientists provide to social-science problems, but offer in return insights that can improve the way we think about explanation more broadly. Because my own “Big Data” comprises texts, I shall limit my observations to computational text analysis (Blei et al., 2003).

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    <title>[1211.4783] Inference of the Russian drug community from one of the largest social networks in the Russian Federation</title>
    <dc:date>2013-02-03T14:54:36+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arxiv.org/abs/1211.4783</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This study aims to gain insight into what constitutes the drug community in the Russian Federation; information that is absent in official governmental data but is vital for developing effective and much needed intervention strategies to counter the on-going 'drug epidemic'. 
Methods 
Members of the on-line drug community are identified from a crawled set of almost 100,000 users from the social network 'LiveJournal' by context sensitive text mining of the users' blogs using a dictionary of known drug-related official and 'slang' terminology. The interests that are more (or less) common within this sub-community are determined using Fisher's exact tests and Hochberg and Benjamini's false discovery rate control procedure. A 'psychological portrait' of the 'average' Russian drug user is created by clustering these indicative interests. In addition, a naive Bayesian classifier is presented for assessing one's susceptibility to the 'drug virus'. 
Results 
A total of 268 significant interests separating between users that most actively spread information on narcotics and the rest of the network and a set of themes summarizing these interests. Three sub-networks of users which can be uniquely classified as being either 'infectious', 'susceptible' or 'immune' to the 'drug virus'. 
Conclusions 
The 'average' drug user in the Russian Federation is generally more interested in topics such as Russian rock, non-traditional medicine, UFOs, Buddhism, yoga and the occult. The three sub-networks are all scale-free. The presented method seems to be fruitful for assessing opaque communities within society.]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In their recent book Economic Anthropology, Chris Hann and Keith Hart write about one of their main goals:  “We hope to persuade economists with real world concerns to take an interest in what anthropologists have discovered about the human economy, and in the kinds of theories we have advanced to understand it” (Hann and Hart 2011:9).  However, they also make this point quite clear: “There is not much hope for dialogue with those who define economics exclusively as the application of an individualistic logic of utility maximization to all domains of social life” (Hann and Hart 2011:9).  Ultimately, they say, “The project of economics needs to be rescued from the economists” (Hann and Hart 2011:162)."]]></description>
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    <title>Agent-Based Modeling: The Right Mathematics for the Social Sciences? [PDF]</title>
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    <title>[1003.6087] &quot;How many zombies do you know?&quot; Using indirect survey methods to measure alien attacks and outbreaks of the undead</title>
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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["We originally wrote this article in Word, but then we converted it to Latex to make it look more like science."
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    <title>Computational Social Science Society | Open Agent Based Modeling Consortium</title>
    <dc:date>2010-03-20T23:47:49+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.openabm.org/node/204</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["We are pleased to announce the establishment of the new Computational Social Science Society (called CSSS, or “C-triple-S”), officially registered in Washington DC on 16 December, 2009, as a 501 (c)(3) scientific non-profit professional organization to serve members in our field of computational social science. This new organization originated at the last meeting of NAACSOS, when the gathered members unanimously moved to establish the new CSSS and elect officers to provide for continuity of leadership and build on NAACSOS’ best past accomplishments."
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    <title>Causality and Statistical Learning - Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science</title>
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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The place where I think Sloman is misguided is in his formulation of scientific models in an either/or way, as if, in truth, social variables are linked in simple causal paths, with a scientific goal of figuring out if A causes B or the reverse. I don't know much about intelligence, beer consumption, and socioeconomic status, but I certainly don't see any simple relationships between income, religious attendance, party identification, and voting--and I don't see how a search for such a pattern will advance our understanding, at least given current techniques. I'd rather start with description and then go toward causality following the approach of economists and statisticians by thinking about potential interventions one at a time. I'd love to see Sloman's and Pearl's ideas of the interplay between observational and experimental data developed in a framework that is less strongly tied to the notion of choice among simple causal structures."
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    <title>What is the Answer to the Suburban Question? | Newgeography.com</title>
    <dc:date>2010-02-25T13:53:08+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["This is the backdrop to the papers that we have collected in our special issue. Its aim is to present work that asks ‘what is happening in the suburbs, in terms of the built form, the economy and social relations’. They are not necessarily written ‘in defense of suburbs,’ but engage suburbs as if they matter. "
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    <title>Conference Proceedings</title>
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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The current global financial crisis, visibly catalyzed by the rapid drop in securitized mortgage valuations in the summer 2007, has entailed a dramatic decrease in the availability of credit, wealth destruction linked to stock market valuations, the failure of banks and insurance companies, numerous other bankruptcies, the growth of governmental intervention, a deep and protracted recession, and a general rise in the uncertainty of Capitalistic institutions.  It is in unsettled times such as these that hegemonic and taken-for-granted ideas and institutions may be challenged, and new alternatives cultivated.  In the context of the early 21st century, it is the hegemonic ideals of markets, market-based solutions, and the ideology of neoliberalism that is on trial."
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    <title>Economist's View: Polanyi's &quot;The Great Transformation&quot;</title>
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