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课程主页: https://www.coursera.org/learn/computational-social-science-methods
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课程名称：计算社会科学方法 课程概述：本课程为您提供计算社会科学的当前机会和广泛影响的概述。无论是世界上最有价值公司的服务，政府机构的潜在影响，还是社会与政治运动的力量，计算社会科学都在研究人类行为以塑造其发展。简单来说，所有这一切都是通过计算手段进行的社会科学。 在本课程中，我们将回答三个问题： I. 为什么现在需要计算社会科学？ II. 计算社会科学覆盖哪些内容？ III. 计算社会科学的实例有哪些？ 在最后一部分，我们将从更高的视角探讨计算社会科学的四个主要应用。首先，来自加州大学伯克利分校的布鲁门斯托克教授讨论如何通过研究当今社交互动留下的大量数字足迹来获取见解，尤其是在促进国际发展的方面。其次，来自加州大学河滨分校的谢尔顿教授向我们介绍机器学习的世界，包括推动当今计算领域的基本概念。接着，来自加州大学圣地亚哥分校的富勒教授介绍社交网络的力量，最后，来自加州大学默塞德分校的斯马尔迪诺教授解释计算机仿真如何帮助我们解开社会涌现的一些神秘。 课程大纲： 1. 计算社会科学（CSS） - 描述：您将能够检视数字革命带来的社会科学历史和当前挑战，讨论社会的核心神秘：社会涌现，回顾科学方法的基本构建块及其如何适用于当前可用的新计算工具，并为“社会研究”逐渐成熟为“真正的科学”辩护。 2. 计算社会科学实例：数据科学 - 描述：您将通过案例研究了解计算社会科学在现实世界中的应用，讨论数字足迹的实例，并描述计算社会科学的应用方式。您将实践活动，配置机器以创建一个可供后续分析的数据库。 3. CSS实例：机器学习与人工智能 - 描述：您将发现人工智能如何将新闻故事转变为全球动荡和潜在恐怖袭击的实时观测站，以及脑扫描如何揭示道德价值观的某些方面。您将与能够解读您艺术技能的人工智能进行互动实践。 4. CSS实例：社交网络和计算机仿真 - 描述：您将探索社交网络和人类动态如何创建比个人更庞大的系统：社会系统。您将讨论社交网络和人类动态遵循的可识别模式，并识别社交网络分析和计算机仿真如何成功解开社会涌现的一些神秘。
Name:Computational Social Science (CSS)
Description:In this module, you will be able to examine the history and current challenges faced by social science through the digital revolution. You will be able to discuss the mystery at the core of society: social emergence. You will be able to recall the fundamental building blocks of the scientific method and how they apply to the new computational tools we now have available. You will be able to defend what people mean when they say that ‘social studies’ are currently maturing to become a ‘real science’.
Name:Example of Computational Social Science: Data Science
Description:In this module, you will be presented with an example of how computational social science is applied in the real world through a case study. You will be able to discuss examples of digital footprint and describe how computational social science is applied. You will practice an activity and be able to configure a machine to create a database that can later be used for analysis.
Name:Examples of CSS: Machine Learning & AI
Description:In this module, you will be able to discover how artificial intelligence can convert news stories into a real-time observatory of global unrest and potential terror attacks, and how brain scans can be used to reveal aspects of your moral values. You will be able to practice interacting with artificial intelligence that can interpret your art skills.
Name:Examples of CSS: Social Networks and Computer Simulations
Description:In this module, you will be able to discover how social networks and human dynamics create systems that are larger than you and me: social systems. You will be able to discuss how social networks and human dynamics follow recognizable patterns. You will be able to identify how social network analysis and computer simulations are currently quite successful in untangling some of the mysteries of social emergence.
This course gives you an overview of the current opportunities and the omnipresent reach of computational social science. The results are all around us, every day, reaching from the services provided by the world’s most valuable companies, over the hidden influence of governmental agencies, to the power of social and political movements. All of them study human behavior in order to shape it. In short, all of them do social science by computational means. In this course we answer three questions: I. Why Computational Social Science (CSS) now? II. What does CSS cover? III. What are examples of CSS? In this last part, we take a bird’s-eye view on four main applications of CSS. First, Prof. Blumenstock from UC Berkeley discusses how we can gain insights by studying the massive digital footprint left behind today’s social interactions, especially to foster international development. Second, Prof. Shelton from UC Riverside introduces us to the world of machine learning, including the basic concepts behind this current driver of much of today's computational landscape. Prof. Fowler, from UC San Diego introduces us to the power of social networks, and finally, Prof. Smaldino, from UC Merced, explains how computer simulation help us to untangle some of the mysteries of social emergence.
