Notes from a Computational Social Scientist

Readings for this week: Maps, humans, and disaster

This week’s links are about disaster research, award winning portraits and how to story tell using maps and colors.

Social Change and Trendsetting: How do new movements occur?

Model Parallelization in Various Languages & Approaches to Concurrent Agent Scheduling

Often I talk about various applications of agent-based modeling (ABM), but rarely are computational approaches discussed. At George Mason, a group of students and professors are…

Time to dig into data

This week The White House added a Data Scientist

Fixing all the things from the bottom up

Imagine this. Imagine you can increase the capacity of highways by up to 30% in one year with no cost. One year! NO COST!

What is this awesome solution?

Studying the Emergence of Social Norms

Social norms emerge from the dynamics of individual social interactions. Peter Froncek, a Ph.D. student in Computational Social Science at GMU, is investigating how this happens, how they are adopted, and the process used in various network topologies. He shared…

Console Wars vs. Class Wars

Could an expanded middle class have helped Little Samson be more famous…

Using real data to validate agent based models

Researcher used the evaluation process to look at the…