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Computational Social Science Ariel Brio July 23, 2009
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About me BS, Policy & Management, Carnegie Mellon University, 2005 MS, Public Policy & Management, Carnegie Mellon University, 2006 US Department of Defense, 2006-2007 Booz Allen Hamilton, 2007-2009
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Contents Introduction – What is Computational Social Science? Examples Current state of the field
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Data-driven social science Computational Social Science seeks to gain meaning into social phenomena from quantitative data-sets Diverges from traditional social science in that it applies mathematical methods to mine social data Introduction
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Social Sciences include: Pure fields: Political Science Sociology Economics Psychology Applied fields Management Marketing Information systems Policy analysis Finance Introduction
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Quantitative methods Statistics & probability Operations research Data-mining Decision Science Visualization Introduction
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Logistics systems Management of goods, information, people, and resources Military Commercial Information systems Examples
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Computable General Equilibrium Models Combines databases of economic and transactional data with input/output models that describe relationships of data to economies and trade Examples
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Social Network Analysis Quantitative and visual models of social relationships Relationships are measured and clustered to better understand social dynamics Used often for targeting – both commercial and military Examples
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MLB Steroid network – Supply Examples
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MLB Steroid network – Team ties Examples
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9/11 Al Qaeda network Examples
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Al Qaeda
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Amazon network Examples
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Computational Social Science is going through a renaissance Internet, databases, and Web 2.0 transformed the measurement and storage of social systems Social networking Massive data-bases & cloud computing The field
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Organizations making an impact Academic & Research Santa Fe Institute Harvard Institute for Quantitative Social Science MIT Human Dynamics Group UCI Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Science Michigan Institute for Social Research Commercial & Industry Hi-tech: Google, Amazon, Apple, Facebook Defense: Booz Allen Hamilton, SAIC Ford Motors ExxonMobil Government & Non-profit MITRE RAND DoD, CIA, NSA, FBI The field
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Getting involved at Arizona Eller College of Management Artificial Intelligence Lab Department of Systems & Industrial Engineering Multidisciplinary University Research Institute Modeling Optimization & Research Education The field
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