News | Computational Social Science Lab

End-of-Year Check-In: Celebrating the CSSLab’s Students

Jun 1, 2022 | News

The CSSLab’s research assistants and Ph.D. students play a vital role in advancing the Lab’s diverse research projects. As the Spring 2022 semester comes to a close, we would like to highlight and celebrate some of our students’ recent accomplishments, various...

From Seahawks Fan to 2022 NFL Big Data Bowl Finalist: How American Football Shaped Tai Nguyen’s Journey

Apr 27, 2022 | News, PennMAP

2022 Big Data Bowl finalists Ryan Gross, Joseph Rudoler, Tai Nguyen, and Ryan Brill present “Optimal Run Path For Kick Returners.” There’s nothing more American than football. Penn graduate student Tai Nguyen figured that out soon after arriving in the United States...

The Data Will Save Us: An Interview with CSSLab Director Duncan Watts

Apr 18, 2022 | Article, News, PennMAP

The data will save us — Or at least, that’s the hope of Wharton professor Duncan Watts, whose new initiative, the Penn Media Accountability Project, aims to expose bias in journalism by building a huge database of news for researchers and journalism watchdogs to...

Navigating the challenges of data-driven research

Apr 4, 2022 | News

The CSSLab’s Research Data Engineer, Yingquan Li, offers his perspective on data-driven social science and the challenges facing the new field of CSS. ABOVE: Yingquan Li (third from right), the CSSLab’s Research Data Engineer, at an AWS-sponsored event. In its...

Applications open: Penn Summer Institute in Computational Social Science

Mar 31, 2022 | News

The Penn Summer Institute in Computational Social Science (SICSS-Penn) is open for applications! SICSS-Penn will bring together early-career researchers and provide opportunities for networking with Computational Social Science colleagues, interdisciplinary research...