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Radicalization at a Glance: PennMAP Launches Interactive Data Dashboard
The new dashboard is designed to make the Lab’s research on YouTube radicalization accessible and engaging to the general public — and, in the process, forms the first step towards revolutionizing research communication.
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CSS unites computer science, statistics, and social science to solve challenging real-world problems using novel theories. Through our mass collaboration with industry, government, and civil society, our path-breaking research generates solutions which are both innovative and practical.
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Applications open: Summer Institute in Computational Social Science 2023
The Penn Summer Institute in Computational Social Science (SICSS-Penn) is open for applications! SICSS-Penn brings together early-career researchers and provides opportunities for networking with Computational Social Science colleagues, interdisciplinary research collaborations, and guest lectures.
Radicalization at a Glance: Penn Media Accountability Project Launches Interactive Data Dashboard
PennMAP launches the first in a series of interactive data visualizations. The new dashboard is designed to make the CSSLab’s research on YouTube radicalization accessible and engaging to the general public — and, in the process, forms the first step towards revolutionizing research communication.
Researcher Spotlight: Jorge Barreras Cortes
Having just earned his Ph.D. in applied math in December, Jorge “Paco” Barreras Cortes kicks off 2023 as a fully fledged post-doctoral researcher at the CSSLab. He has driven the Lab’s work on epidemic modeling since 2020, grappling with the types of data, machine learning, and network science quandaries that underpin the toughest challenges in the field. Read on to learn more about his research journey in this month’s Researcher Spotlight.
Over the past 100 years, social science has generated a tremendous number of theories on the topics of individual and collective human behaviour. However, it has been much less successful at reconciling the innumerable inconsistencies and contradictions among these competing explanations.
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Duncan Watts
CSSLab Founder
Over the past 100 years, social science has generated a tremendous number of theories on the topics of individual and collective human behaviour. However, it has been much less successful at reconciling the innumerable inconsistencies and contradictions among these competing explanations.
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Duncan Watts
CSS Lab Founder