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Statistics and Big Data
I am late, I know… I came back last week from the NTTS (New Techniques and Technologies for Statistics) 2013 conference in Brussels and have not yet had a minute to stop and write down my impressions. Fortunately I live-tweeted during the conference, so I haven’t completely lost trace of my thoughts while there… let […]
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I was interviewd by SFR PLAYER (an online magazine published by SFR, a major Telecom provider in France) on the changes induced by the use of big data in my work as a social science researcher. The video interview (in French) is available here. The same issue features an interview with danah boyd and various […]
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Tags: Big data, Quantitative methods, Small data, Social science data, Social simulation, Statistical data, Web-based social networks
I have already mentioned our study ANAMIA, undertaken in collaboration with an interdisciplinary team of sociologists, social psychologists, philosophers, economists, and computer scientists in France and the UK. We look at the so-called “pro-ana” and “pro-mia” websites, blogs and forums (where “ana” and “mia” stand for anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa), which have raised lively […]
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Tags: Eating behaviors, Eating disorders, Food choices, Network Analysis, Pro-ana and pro-mia websites, Sociology, Trans-disciplinarity, Web-based social networks, Well-being
I was yesterday at the Just-in-Time-Sociology (JITSO) workshop in Lausanne (oh, how I still like this town, after such a long time!). JITSO was a small-scale, nice and friendly event for like-minded social researchers, who feel the urge to use their baggage of theories and techniques to provide science-informed responses to today’s fast-paced social, political […]
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Tags: 2011 UK riots, Agent-based models, Mixed methods, Public policy analysis, Quantitative methods, Social science data, Social simulation, social theory, Sociology, Web
On 14th December 2012, the French National Library (BNF, Bibliothèque Nationale de France) in Paris will host the ANR ANAMIA symposium “Understanding Pro-Ana: Body, Networks and Nutrition” (Comprendre le phénomène pro-ana : corps, réseaux, alimentation). Presentations will be in French (see program here). An English summary is available here. Attendance is free of charge but […]
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Tags: Eating behaviors, Eating disorders, Food choices, Mixed methods, Network Analysis, Pro-ana and pro-mia websites, Web-based social networks, Well-being
[SAVE THE DATE: on 14th December 2012, we will hold a symposium on “Understanding Pro-Ana: Body, Networks and Nutrition” (Comprendre le phénomène pro-ana : corps, réseaux, alimentation) at Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris. It is an output of the research project ANAMIA of which the study presented here is part]. With Antonio Casilli and Lise […]
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Tags: Eating behaviors, Eating disorders, Network Analysis, Pro-ana and pro-mia websites, Quantitative methods, Social science data, Sociology, Web, Well-being
Hello everyone, You have probably reached this page after listening to my talk on Mobs and mobiles – the “dark side” of social media in relation to the 2011 UK riots, which was broadcast yesterday on BBC Radio 3 as part of its transmission “The Essay“, in a 5-episode series entitled “At the speed of […]
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Tags: 2011 UK riots, Agent-based models, Civil violence, just-in-time-sociology, Social simulation, social theory, Sociology, Web, Web-based social networks
Statistics is not just about maths… beyond chi-squares and p-values, statistics was originally created in the seventeenth century as the science (or perhaps, the art)! of describing the state, and still does so today. Governments have statistical agencies in charge of informing it on the state of the country. Among other things, statistical agencies measure […]
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Tags: Data policy, Open data, Public policy analysis, social media, Social science data, Statistics
Hello everyone, You have probably reached this page after reading an article about our study “Social Media Censorship in Times of Political Unrest – A Social Simulation Experiment with the UK Riots” (published in the journal Bulletin of Sociological Methodology, vol. 115, n. 1). This post will provide some background information. Read the study First […]
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Tags: 2011 UK riots, Agent-based models, Civil violence, Social simulation, social theory, Sociology, Web, Web-based social networks
SNA, NS, CSS: what are we doing?
The rise of social media has brought a new life to the academic field of social network analysis (commonly referred to as SNA). Traditionally grounded in sociology with applications to neighbouring fields such as management and education, it has now expanded to a variety of other disciplines including economics, geography, psychology, science studies and even […]
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Tags: Network Analysis, Social science data, Social simulation, social theory, Sociology, Trans-disciplinarity, Web-based social networks
