COMPUTATIONAL SOCIAL SCIENCE

Computational Social Science (CSS) is a new area of research which aims to analyze socio-cultural phenomena through new kinds of data and novel technologies. The overall goal of the department is to develop and provide methods and tools for the social sciences to mine digital behavioral data (especially from the web), to collect sensor data (e.g., via RFID chips or cell phone apps), and to combine this new kind of data with traditional survey data in order to improve the analyses of a broad range of socio-cultural phenomena. The CSS department tackles these tasks with approaches from machine learning, text and data mining, and network analysis.

Registration numbers: VR1449 (W)

VAT numbers: DE 814 839 735

Primary location: Mannheim Germany