Exploring the political pulse of a country using data science toolsJournal of Computational Social Science - Tập 5 - Trang 987-1000 - 2022
Miguel G. Folgado, Veronica Sanz
In this paper we illustrate the use of Data Science techniques to analyse complex human communication. In particular, we consider tweets from leaders of political parties as a dynamical proxy to political programmes and ideas. We also study the temporal evolution of their contents as a reaction to specific events. We analyse levels of positive and negative sentiment in the tweets using new tools a...... hiện toàn bộ
Analyzing Twitter networks using graph embeddings: an application to the British caseJournal of Computational Social Science - - 2021
Miguel Won, Jorge M. Fernandes
Embeddings have gained traction in the social sciences in recent years. Existing work focuses on text-as-data to estimate word embeddings. In this paper, we turn to graph embeddings as a tool whose use has been overlooked in the analysis of social networks. Graph embeddings have two primary uses. First, to encode users and their interactions onto a single vector. Second, graph embeddings can be us...... hiện toàn bộ
Agent-based modeling for migration and modern slavery research: a systematic reviewJournal of Computational Social Science - Tập 4 - Trang 243-332 - 2020
Alys McAlpine, Ligia Kiss, Cathy Zimmerman, Zaid Chalabi
This systematic review aims to synthesize how agent-based modeling (ABM) has been used in migration and modern slavery research and provide the basis to model development for social science researchers exploring the use of ABM. We searched five bibliographic databases using two terminology categories: (1) migration or modern slavery terminology; (2) complex system methods terminology. Two reviewer...... hiện toàn bộ
Predicting declining and growing occupations using supervised machine learningJournal of Computational Social Science - Tập 6 - Trang 757-780 - 2023
Christelle Khalaf, Gilbert Michaud, G. Jason Jolley
In the United States (U.S.), structural changes in the economy remain varied, yet continuous, prompting the need for regular analyses of both declining and growing occupations. As automation, robotization, and digitization continues to accelerate and drive new patterns of economic change, so does the need for proactive programs and policies aimed at targeted workforce re-training. Applying machine...... hiện toàn bộ
Second-order micromotives and macrobehaviourJournal of Computational Social Science - Tập 3 - Trang 209-229 - 2020
Philippe Collard
This paper deals with the gap between the preferences of individual agents and collective outcomes. The typical example of this topic is the Schelling–Sakoda segregation model where a first-order discrimination criterion is used to decide whether or not a person will leave his place. Based on the ratio of “acceptable” people around one individual, simple simulations show that even tolerant agents ...... hiện toàn bộ
Incorporating machine learning in dispute resolution and settlement process for financial fraudJournal of Computational Social Science - Tập 6 - Trang 515-539 - 2023
Mark E. Lokanan
This paper aims to classify disciplinary hearings into two types (settlement and contested). The objective is to employ binary machine learning classifier algorithms to predict the hearing outcomes given a set of features representing the victims, offenders, and enforcement. Data for this project came from the Investment Industry Regulatory Industry of Canada’s (IIROC) tribunal hearing. The data c...... hiện toàn bộ
Influencing overseas Chinese by tweets: text-images as the key tactic of Chinese propagandaJournal of Computational Social Science - Tập 3 - Trang 469-486 - 2020
Austin Horng-En Wang, Mei-chun Lee, Min-Hsuan Wu, Puma Shen
The literature on China’s social media foreign propaganda mostly focuses on text-format contents in English, which may miss the real target and the tool for analysis. In this article, we traced 1256 Twitter accounts echoing China government’s #USAVirus propaganda before and after Twitter removed state-linked operations on June 12, 2020. The 3567 tweets with #USAVirus we collected, albeit many writ...... hiện toàn bộ