University of California, Davis
Computational Social Science Capstone Project
University of California, Davis

Computational Social Science Capstone Project

Martin Hilbert

Instructor: Martin Hilbert

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Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.
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Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.
4.6

(37 reviews)

Intermediate level
Some related experience required
13 hours to complete
3 weeks at 4 hours a week
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace

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There are 4 modules in this course

For this milestone, you will again web scrape videos from two YouTube channels. You will be assigned two channels to scrape. In contrast to the previous version of this exercise, you will NOT scrape the featured videos of the specified news channel, but the search results of the name of the news channel in combination with your name.

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3 videos3 readings1 assignment1 peer review1 discussion prompt

In this milestone, you will analyze a social network with help of the software Gephi.

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1 video2 readings1 peer review1 discussion prompt

In this milestone of our Integrative Lab, you will select two of the key videos identified with help of our SNA, and analyze the sentiment and emotions contained in the comment sections of the videos. We use NLP from IBM Watson for this.

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3 videos1 reading1 peer review1 discussion prompt

In this milestone, you will take all the data you created in the previous milestones and use a two-step flow model and discover how ideas can diffuse into society. Through this exercise you will grow your own artificial society from the bottom-up.

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6 videos1 peer review2 discussion prompts

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Martin Hilbert
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