7th week: Big Data & e-Science
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This week we deal with the following questions:
> How does digitalization help us to understand society?
> What is Big Data and what role does it play? > What are Computer Simulations and what role do they play?
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This week's tasks consist of 3 activities and one voluntary one:
1- Watch: watch the following lectures:
Slides7_Big Data_Hilbert.pdf Download Slides7_Big Data_Hilbert.pdf
ForNotes_Slides7_Big Data_Hilbert.pdf Download ForNotes_Slides7_Big Data_Hilbert.pdf
7-2: Computational Social Science (4:57)
7-4: Digital Big Data Footprint (5:34)
7-5: N=n: Big Data doesn't sample (7:02)
7-7: Real-time Big Data (4:09)
7-8: Big Data Machine Learning (5:38)
7-9: Dangers of Big Data (10:25)
7-10a: Why do we need computer simulations? (8:34)
Links to an external site. Links to an external site.7-10b: Big Data requires Big Visions for Big Change (17:00) Links to an external site.
Links to an external site. Links to an external site.7-11: Schelling's Segregation Model (14:31)
Links to an external site.7-12: Simulations for quantitative context-dependency (4:28)
Links to an external site. Links to an external site.7-13: e-Science for Politics and Policies (8:54)
Links to an external site. Links to an external site.7-14: All models are wrong: limits of science (6:17)
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If you want to learn more about the topics from this lecture, check out CMN150V "Computational Social Science", which also exists as open MOOC Links to an external site.:
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2- Read the following texts:
Mayer-Schönberger, V., & Cukier, K. (2013). Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think. First part of Chapter 1 = NPR excerpt Links to an external site.: BigData_MayerSchonberger_Cukier_NPRexcerpt.pdf Download BigData_MayerSchonberger_Cukier_NPRexcerpt.pdf
Woodie, A. (2013). Big Data Analytics Give Electoral Edge Links to an external site.. Datanami. Big Data Analytics Give Electoral Edge.pdf Download Big Data Analytics Give Electoral Edge.pdf
Barrett, C. L., Eubank, S. G., & Smith, J. P. (2005). If Smallpox Strikes Portland... Links to an external site. Scientific American, 292(3), 54–61.
3- Contribute to the online forum:
- Additional Voluntary:
Hilbert, M. (2015). ICT4ICTD: Computational Social Science for Digital Development Links to an external site.. In HICSS 48. IEEE Computer Society. direct link here Download direct link here
More about Big Data: Do some Big Data analysis yourself! Check out what http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Trends Links to an external site. is all about and then do some trend analytics yourself: http://www.google.com/trends/
Inspiring TEDx talk on Big data in the service of humanity
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More on agent-based computer simulations: Rauch, J. (2002). Seeing Around Corners. The Atlantic, (April); http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2002/04/seeing-around-corners/302471/ Links to an external site.