University of California, Davis - Computational Social Science Capstone Project
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Computational Social Science Capstone Project at Coursera Overview
Duration | 14 hours |
Start from | Start Now |
Total fee | Free |
Mode of learning | Online |
Difficulty level | Intermediate |
Official Website | Explore Free Course  |
Credential | Certificate |
Computational Social Science Capstone Project at Coursera Highlights
- This Course Plus the Full Specialization.
- Shareable Certificates.
- Graded Programming Assignments.
Computational Social Science Capstone Project at Coursera Course details
- CONGRATULATIONS! Not only did you accomplish to finish our intellectual tour de force, but, by now, you also already have all required skills to execute a comprehensive multi-method workflow of computational social science. We will put these skills to work in this final integrative lab, where we are bringing it all together. We scrape data from a social media site (drawing on the skills obtained in the 1st course of this specialization). We then analyze the collected data by visualizing the resulting networks (building on the skills obtained in the 3rd course). We analyze some key aspects of it in depth, using machine learning powered natural language processing (putting to work the insights obtained during the 2nd course). Finally, we use a computer simulation model to explore possible generative mechanism and scrutinize aspects that we did not find in our empirical reality, but that help us to improve this aspect of society (drawing on the skills obtained during the 4th course of this specialization). The result is the first glimpse at a new way of doing social science in a digital age: computational social science. Congratulations! Having done all of this yourself, you can consider yourself a fledgling computational social scientist!
Computational Social Science Capstone Project at Coursera Curriculum
Getting Started and Milestone 1
What is this Specialization About?
Culminating Project Introduction
Webscraping Lab How-To
About UCCSS
A Note From UC Davis
Welcome to Peer Review Assignments!
Web Scraping Assigned Task
Milestone 2: Social Network Analysis
Milestone 2: Integrative Lab: SNA Introduction
Social Network Analysis capstone: getting started
Social Network Analysis Lab Tutorial
Milestone 3: Natural Language Processing
Milestone 3: NLP Introduction
Network Measures (Part 1)
Network Measures (Part 2)
Welcome to the Web Scraping Lab
Milestone 4: Agent-Based Computer Simulations
Milestone 4: Agent-Based Computer Simulations Introduction
One-Step Flow (Part 1)
One-Step Flow (Part 2)
Two-Step Flow
Convincing Messages
Course Summary
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