Posts Tagged ‘Quantitative methods’
Just as an additional part of my interview on data has come out on SFR Player, I am preparing to attend a major conference on data and statistics next week in Brussels, with participation of national statistical institutes from European and other countries. Official statisticians who mainly used to do surveys, now fully realize the […]
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Tags: Big data, Network Analysis, Quantitative methods, Social science data, social theory, Statistical modeling, Web-based social networks
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
The one-day workshop on “Introduction to Social Network Analysis” that I gave two weeks ago (wow, time flies…) at the University of Greenwich was a great satisfaction! A good audience of about 15 people (not too few, not too many), all very bright and nice. We had interesting and stimulating questions, and it was quite […]
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Tags: Inter-organisational Networks, Intra-organisational networks, Network Analysis, Networks and Markets, Quantitative methods, Social science data, Web-based social networks
I am going to give another one-day workshop on Introduction to Social Network Analysis in a couple of weeks time -more precisely on Monday, 14th January, at the University of Greenwich, London, as part of a Winter School for researchers and PhD students in social science, management and economics, dedicated to Analytical Software. The rationale […]
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Tags: Inter-organisational Networks, Intra-organisational networks, Mixed methods, Personal networks, Quantitative methods, Social science data, Web-based social networks
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
[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
I have just come back home from the annual conference of the British Sociological Association in Leeds. Lots of participants, excellent organisation, and a surprisingly nice (though rainy and chilly!) town with a modern, functional, well-equipped campus. Overall, however, a sense of unease prevailed. Perhaps it was the very theme of the conference: “Sociology in […]
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Tags: Impact, Public sociology, Qualitative data, Quantitative methods, Social media for research, Social science data, social theory, Sociology, Statistical modeling
Of all the economic bubbles … few have burst more spectacularly than the reputation of economics itself. So wrote The Economist in July 2009, commenting on the financial crisis. In the last few years, many have pointed their fingers at the discipline and its incapacity to predict the crisis, let alone to devise remedies for […]
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Tags: Economic analysis, economic methodology, History of economics, Qualitative data, Quantitative methods, Social science data, Statistical modeling, Trans-disciplinarity
I gave a one-day workshop on Introduction to Social Network Analysis in July, and it was a great experience -for me and, from what I could see, for participants. I am now about to repeat the experience, and I’m so excited about it! Indeed, at the upcoming Winter School on Analytical Software at the University […]
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Tags: History of social science, Inter-organisational Networks, Intra-organisational networks, Networks and Markets, Public policy analysis, Quantitative methods, Social science data, social theory, Statistical modeling, Trans-disciplinarity, Web-based social networks
The End of Privacy?
Yesterday, Antonio Casilli and I gave a presentation of our ongoing project on testing the hypothesis of the “End of Privacy” in online communications. The workshop was organised by our funder, Fondation Cigref, in their offices in Paris and brought together all their current grantees. Besides our own work, many of the others seemed quite interesting […]
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Tags: Agent-based models, Network Analysis, Quantitative methods, Social simulation, social theory, Web, Web-based social networks
