Computational social science

(via Computational social science: Making the links : Nature News & Comment)

Social Science Pushing Data Frontiers

(via Social Science Pushing Data Frontiers – Information Management Blogs Article)

Making Visible the Invisible: Meaning, Not Content, Matters in Social Data

Making Visible the Invisible: Meaning, Not Content, Matters in Social Data
Eric Openshaw and Alexander Pentland, Vice Chairman, Deloitte and Founder/Director, MIT Connection Science and Engineering Center, allthingsd.com

There is no ques­tion that in today’s con­nect­ed world — where few activ­i­ties go untracked and undig­i­tized — social data is every­where, being gen­er­at­ed by the ter­abyte. Fast on the heels of social data are innu­mer­able ideas for…

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Microsoft says social science will be the next frontier of science and technology

Microsoft in Cambridge
Microsoft in Cambridge (Photo credit: Rachel Ford James)

Microsoft Research New England head notes  that social science will be the next frontier of science and technology.

Where creativity meets technology – Boston.com

 

If you’re going to do good science, release the code

Source Code
Source Code (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

 

If you’re going to do good science, release the computer code too | Technology | guardian.co.uk.