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. 2020 Aug 28;369(6507):1060-1062.

doi: 10.1126/science.aaz8170.

Computational social science: Obstacles and opportunities

David M J Lazer^{1

2}, Alex Pentland³, Duncan J Watts⁴, Sinan Aral³, Susan Athey⁵, Noshir Contractor⁶, Deen Freelon⁷, Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon⁴, Gary King², Helen Margetts^{8

9}, Alondra Nelson^{10

11}, Matthew J Salganik¹², Markus Strohmaier^{13

14}, Alessandro Vespignani¹⁵, Claudia Wagner^{14

16}

Affiliations

Affiliations

¹ Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA. d.lazer@northeastern.edu.
² Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.
³ Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.
⁴ University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
⁵ Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
⁶ Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA.
⁷ University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
⁸ University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
⁹ The Alan Turing Institute, London, UK.
¹⁰ Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, USA.
¹¹ Social Science Research Council, New York, NY, USA.
¹² Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA.
¹³ RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany.
¹⁴ GESIS-Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Cologne, Germany.
¹⁵ Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA.
¹⁶ University of Koblenz-Landau, Landau, Germany.

PMID: 32855329
DOI: 10.1126/science.aaz8170

Computational social science: Obstacles and opportunities

David M J Lazer et al. Science. 2020.

. 2020 Aug 28;369(6507):1060-1062.

doi: 10.1126/science.aaz8170.

Authors

David M J Lazer^{1

2}, Alex Pentland³, Duncan J Watts⁴, Sinan Aral³, Susan Athey⁵, Noshir Contractor⁶, Deen Freelon⁷, Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon⁴, Gary King², Helen Margetts^{8

9}, Alondra Nelson^{10

11}, Matthew J Salganik¹², Markus Strohmaier^{13

14}, Alessandro Vespignani¹⁵, Claudia Wagner^{14

16}

Affiliations

¹ Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA. d.lazer@northeastern.edu.
² Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.
³ Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.
⁴ University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
⁵ Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
⁶ Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA.
⁷ University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
⁸ University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
⁹ The Alan Turing Institute, London, UK.
¹⁰ Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, USA.
¹¹ Social Science Research Council, New York, NY, USA.
¹² Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA.
¹³ RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany.
¹⁴ GESIS-Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Cologne, Germany.
¹⁵ Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA.
¹⁶ University of Koblenz-Landau, Landau, Germany.

PMID: 32855329
DOI: 10.1126/science.aaz8170

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Computational social science: On measurement.
Wu AX, Taneja H, Boyd D, Donato P, Hindman M, Napoli P, Webster J. Wu AX, et al. Science. 2020 Dec 4;370(6521):1174-1175. doi: 10.1126/science.abe8308. Science. 2020. PMID: 33273094 No abstract available.

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