Handbook of Computational Social Science, Volume 2

Data Science, Statistical Modelling, and Machine Learning Methods

Uwe Engel, Anabel Quan-Haase, Sunny Liu, Lars Lyberg (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

412 Seiten

2021
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-45780-8 (ISBN)

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The Handbook of Computational Social Science is a comprehensive reference source for scholars across multiple disciplines. It outlines key debates in the field, showcasing novel statistical modeling and machine learning methods, and draws from specific case studies to demonstrate the opportunities and challenges in CSS approaches.

The Handbook is divided into two volumes written by outstanding, internationally renowned scholars in the field. This second volume focuses on foundations and advances in data science, statistical modeling, and machine learning. It covers a range of key issues, including the management of big data in terms of record linkage, streaming, and missing data. Machine learning, agent-based and statistical modeling, as well as data quality in relation to digital trace and textual data, as well as probability, non-probability, and crowdsourced samples represent further foci. The volume not only makes major contributions to the consolidation of this growing research field, but also encourages growth into new directions.

With its broad coverage of perspectives (theoretical, methodological, computational), international scope, and interdisciplinary approach, this important resource is integral reading for advanced undergraduates, postgraduates, and researchers engaging with computational methods across the social sciences, as well as those within the scientific and engineering sectors.

Uwe Engel is Professor at the University of Bremen, Germany, where he held a chair in sociology from 2000 to 2020. From 2008 to 2013, Dr. Engel coordinated the Priority Programme on “Survey Methodology” of the German Research Foundation. His current research focuses on data science, human-robot interaction, and opinion dynamics. Anabel Quan-Haase is Professor of Sociology and Information and Media Studies at Western University and Director of the SocioDigital Media Lab, London, Canada. Her research interests include social media, social networks, life course, social capital, computational social science, and digital inequality/inclusion. Sunny Xun Liu is a research scientist at Stanford Social Media Lab, USA. Her research focuses on the social and psychological effects of social media and AI, social media and well-being, and how the design of social robots impact psychological perceptions. Lars Lyberg was Head of the Research and Development Department at Statistics Sweden and Professor at Stockholm University. He was an elected member of the International Statistical Institute. In 2018, he received the AAPOR Award for Exceptionally Distinguished Achievement.

Preface

Introduction to the Handbook of Computational Social Science
Uwe Engel, Anabel Quan-Haase, Sunny Xun Liu and Lars Lyberg

Section I. Data in CSS: Collection, Management, and Cleaning

A Brief History of APIs: Limitations and Opportunities for Online Research
Jakob Jünger

Application Programming Interfaces and Web Data For Social Research
Dominic Nyhuis

Web Data Mining: Collecting Textual Data from Web Pages Using R
Stefan Bosse, Lena Dahlhaus and Uwe Engel

Analyzing Data Streams for Social Scientists
Lianne Ippel, Maurits Kaptein and Jeroen Vermunt

Handling Missing Data in Large Data Bases
Martin Spiess and Thomas Augustin

A Primer on Probabilistic Record Linkage

Ted Enamorado

Reproducibility and Principled Data Processing
John McLevey, Pierson Browne and Tyler Crick

Section II. Data Quality in CSS Research

Applying a Total Error Framework for Digital Traces to Social Media Research
Indira Sen, Fabian Flöck, Katrin Weller, Bernd Weiß and Claudia Wagner

Crowdsourcing in Observational and Experimental Research
Camilla Zallot, Gabriele Paolacci, Jesse Chandler and Itay Sisso

Inference from Probability and Nonprobability Samples
Rebecca Andridge and Richard Valliant

Challenges of Online Non-Probability Surveys
Jelke Bethlehem

Section III. Statistical Modelling and Simulation

Large-scale Agent-based Simulation and Crowd Sensing with Mobile Agents
Stefan Bosse

Agent-based Modelling for Cultural Networks: Tagging by Artificial Intelligent Cultural Agents
Fernando Sancho-Caparrini and Juan Luis Suárez

Using Subgroup Discovery and Latent Growth Curve Modeling to Identify Unusual Developmental Trajectories
Axel Mayer, Christoph Kiefer, Benedikt Langenberg and Florian Lemmerich

Disaggregation via Gaussian Regression for Robust Analysis of Heterogeneous Data
Nazanin Alipourfard, Keith Burghardt and Kristina Lerman

Section IV: Machine Learning Methods

Machine Learning Methods for Computational Social Science
Richard D. De Veaux and Adam Eck

Principal Component Analysis
Andreas Pöge and Jost Reinecke

Unsupervised Methods: Clustering Methods
Johann Bacher, Andreas Pöge and Knut Wenzig

Text Mining and Topic Modeling
Raphael H. Heiberger and Sebastian Munoz-Najar Galvez

From Frequency Counts to Contextualized Word Embeddings: The Saussurean Turn in Automatic Content Analysis
Gregor Wiedemann and Cornelia Fedtke

Automated Video Analysis for Social Science Research

Dominic Nyhuis, Tobias Ringwald, Oliver Rittmann, Thomas Gschwend and Rainer Stiefelhagen

Erscheinungsdatum	20.10.2021
Reihe/Serie	European Association of Methodology Series
Zusatzinfo	33 Tables, black and white; 102 Line drawings, black and white; 102 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	174 x 246 mm
Gewicht	1100 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Test in der Psychologie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Empirische Sozialforschung
ISBN-10	0-367-45780-6 / 0367457806
ISBN-13	978-0-367-45780-8 / 9780367457808
Zustand	Neuware