Complex Systems and Computational Social Sciences

This page documents important links and readings on Computational Social Sciences.

0. CSS Toolkit for beginners

CSS 101

• SICSS Boot Camp https://sicss.io/boot_camp/
• Introduction to Complexity course https://www.complexityexplorer.org/courses/185-introduction-to-complexity
• Introduction to Agent-Based Modeling https://www.complexityexplorer.org/courses/171-introduction-to-agent-based-modeling
• Foundations and Applications of Humanities Analytics https://www.complexityexplorer.org/courses/162-foundations-applications-of-humanities-analytics
• Complexity Explorables (A collection of interactive explorable explanations of complex systems) https://complexity-explorables.org/
• NetLogo Modeling Commons https://modelingcommons.org/

1. Courses/institutions working on CSS

Santa Fe Institute

• Overview of study offerings https://www.santafe.edu/engage/learn/overview
• FAQs https://www.santafe.edu/engage/learn/faq#CSSSFAQs

Complex Systems Summer School

• SFI's hallmark training program in Santa Fe. four-week intensive.
• The Complex Systems Summer School (CSSS) is a four-week school designed to give participants a broad overview of complexity science and exposure to people in many different fields. It is focused on lectures and transdisciplinary group projects. CSSS has about 50 participants.
• Dates: June 9 - July 5, 2024 (CSSS application process usually runs from late October through January)
• ** Fees: $4,500 **

Complexity-GAINs international summer school

• two-week which focuses on ecosystems in 2024

fully-virtual Complexity Interactive

• is a two-week, part-time commitment that allows you to balance work and other responsibilities with your study of complex systems.

Postdoctoral Fellowship.

• [email protected]

SFI's Complexity Global School for Emerging Political Economies

• 2023: Dec 2023 Complexity Global School (CGS) is a collaboration between the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB) in India, the Santa Fe Institute (SFI) in the USA, and the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) in South Africa.
  https://www.complexityexplorer.org/news/149-complexity-global-school-netlogo-research-study
• 2024: July 2024 Complexity Global School (CGS) is a collaboration between la Universidad de los Andes in Bogota, Colombia, and the Santa Fe Institute (SFI) in the USA.
  https://www.santafe.edu/info/2024-complexity-global-school/overview

Graduate Workshop in Computational Social Science

• for scholars of the social sciences looking to include computational approaches in your research
• The Graduate Workshop in Computational Social Science (GWCSS) is a focused two-week program. It accepts 10 Ph.D. students working in the social sciences. There are lectures, but the majority of the program provides students with the opportunity to learn to model complex systems in their current area of research.
• two-week program in Santa Fe.
• Dates: Jun 30 2024-Jul 12 2024
• Registration fee: $2,475

Masters in Computational Social Sciences at Uni of Chicago

• https://macss.uchicago.edu/
• https://macss.uchicago.edu/content/computation-workshop

Computational Social Science at Cornell University

• https://infosci.cornell.edu/research/computational-social-science

Computational Social Science at University of Massachusetts Amherst

• Data Analytics and Computational Social Science
• https://www.umass.edu/graduate/programs/data-analytics-and-computational-social-science-0

Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science (SICSS)

• https://sicss.io/
• Brings together graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and junior faculty for 2 weeks of intensive study and interdisciplinary research

CSS summer schools in India

• SICSS-India | July 11 to July 25, 2022 | IIIT Hyderabad https://sicss.io/2022/india/
• SISS Delhi | June 13 to June 17, 2022 | Ashoka University & CSIR-Central Scientific Instruments Organisation https://sicss.io/2022/delhi/apply

2. CSS Resources

Santa Fe Institute

https://www.complexityexplorer.org/

• guide to start exploring CE https://www.santafe.edu/engage/learn/complexity-explorer

http://codingsocialscience.org/

• This book on Understanding and doing computational social science is currently under development.
• Seeking open reviews on chapters http://codingsocialscience.org/book/r1/
• Author: Matti Nelimarkka (PhD, computer science; MSSc, political science) teaches programming for social scientists at the Centre for Social Data Science, University of Helsinki.
• Introduction to computational social science https://opetus.mante.li/computationalsocialscience/
• Programming for social scientists https://opetus.mante.li/programming/
• Data Science for social scientists https://opetus.mante.li/datascience/

Coursera Computational Social Science Specialization by UC Davis

• https://www.coursera.org/specializations/computational-social-science-ucdavis
• Courses
  • Computational Social Science Methods
  • Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, and Ethics
  • Social Network Analysis
  • Computer Simulations
• https://grad.ucdavis.edu/programs/designated-emphases/gdss

Computational Social Science at Microsoft Research Lab

• https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/theme/computational-social-science/

SAGE

• 39 women doing amazing research in computational social science https://ocean.sagepub.com/blog/2018/9/28/39-women-doing-amazing-research-in-computational-social-science
• SAGE ocean - Enabling social scientists to work with BIG DATA & TECHNOLOGY https://ocean.sagepub.com/

Journal of Computational Social Science

• https://www.springer.com/journal/42001

Misc Articles on CSS

1. Computational social science: Obstacles and opportunities (DOI: 10.1126/science.aaz8170) https://science.sciencemag.org/content/369/6507/1060

2. Metzler, K., Kim, D. A., Allum, N., & Denman, A. (2016). Who is doing computational social science? Trends in big data research (White paper). London, UK: SAGE Publishing. doi: 10.4135/wp160926. Retrieved from https://us.sagepub.com/sites/default/ files/CompSocSci.pdf

3. Data-driven Computational Social Science: A Survey (DOI: 10.1016/j.bdr.2020.100145)
   https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.12372v1

4. Computational Social Science https://www.researchgate.net/publication/227897997_Computational_Social_Science

Misc events/call for in CSS

The Complexity Global School for Emerging Political Economies July 2024

The July 2024 Complexity Global School is a collaboration between the Santa Fe Institute in the USA, and la Universidad de los Andes in Colombia.
Apply by April 22nd, 2024. https://apply-sfi.smapply.org/prog/2024_complexity_global_school/

• https://www.santafe.edu/info/2024-complexity-global-school/overview The in-person portion of the school will run from Sunday, July 21, to Saturday, August 3. This in-person portion is intense, and students will not have time for outside work during these 13 days. The in-person portion of the school will focus on lectures, discussions with lecturers and peers, and the formation of project groups. From August 4th, 2024, to November 5th, 2024, there will be a less intensive virtual portion of the school. During this period, students will virtually collaborate with their selected group to finish their projects.

Call for Participants NetLogo Research Study

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