Is social science research trustworthy? The economist Noah Smith raises this question in a recent piece entitled “How many of our ‘facts’ about society health, and the economy are fake?” As he points ...

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The use of computational methods and tools to deepen our understanding of long-standing questions in the social sciences has been rapidly growing in recent years. This Collection includes manuscripts ...

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A bibliometric analysis of 861 Scopus-indexed articles traces how computational social science evolved from agent-based ...

Students learn how to translate topics of interest to them into social-scientific research questions and testable hypotheses and learn how to identify appropriate method(s) for exploring or testing ...

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