Introduction to Social Simulation with Python
Source code and materials for the tutorial ‘Introduction to Simulation: Complex social dynamics in a few lines of code’. The tutorial was held on 11th July, ...
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Fitting exponential truncated power law using Python
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RESPONSE TO TURCO AND ZUCKERMAN’S “VERSTEHEN FOR SOCIOLOGY”
I predict that sociologists will have to choose between story telling and science. Turco and Zuckerman, in contrast, predict that no such choice will be forc...
VERSTEHEN FOR SOCIOLOGY: COMMENT ON WATTS
We seek only to demonstrate that his observations do not imply that the pursuit of verstehen is a diversion for the field. To the contrary, we argue that the...
社会传染动力学：阈值模型及其扩展
本文回顾了社会传染的经典模型之一阈值模型的相关内容。并且根据近年来在线服务产品采纳行为传播的实证研究讨论了阈值模型的局限性。在此基础上，介绍了一个新的模型。该模型在传统的阈值模型中引入两个新的机制，从而成功地解释了现实生活中社会传播的现象。
Computational Journalism
Journalists look for the unusual handful of individual items that might point toward a news story or an emerging narrative thread.
12行Python代码回复微信拜年
今天上午在朋友圈读到了《12行Python代码，自在随心应付微信拜年群发》一文，非常简单，主要是借助于两个python的包 itchat和pillow，可以使用pip安装。
Duncan Watts’ AMA Interview
On the other hand a single high impact paper is worth many low impact papers, so from a career perspective it’s not necessarily a waste of time to devote a y...
Common Sense and Sociological Explanations
Sociologists rely on common sense more than they realize. Moreover, this unacknowledged reliance causes serious problems for their explanations of social act...
Computational Social Science: Exciting Progress and Future Directions
In spite of many thousands of published papers, there’s been surprisingly little progress on the “big” questions that motivated the field of computational so...