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Choosing Prediction Over Explanation

21 May 2019
Along with my previous post on programming for social scientists, this is another must read paper (even if your branch of social science isn't psychology since this problem exists throughout…
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Code and Data for the Social Sciences – A Short Guide

11 Apr 2019
This paper by two economist professors now at Stanford and Brown is the best short guide (~40 pages) on what anyone writing programs for computational social science should know. I…
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University CSS Institutes

26 Jan 201921 May 2019
While there are only a dozen universities currently offering CSS degrees, there are many others with interdisciplinary institutes that research CSS and are therefore good candidates to find CSS courses.…
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What is Computational Social Science?

25 Jan 201929 Jan 2019
A decade ago when this article by many of the luminaries of the field was published in Science, it omitted details of the technical definition of the computational part. This…
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Running Deep Learning code MUCH faster on Windows

24 Apr 201825 Jan 2019
Most people doing Deep Learning in python are using TensorFlow or the easier API of Kera on top of TensorFlow.  If you're doing this you can usually speed up your…
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Python libraries included in SQL Server 2017

24 Apr 201825 Jan 2019
For data scientists, python is one of the two must have languages. The following list of python libraries come pre-installed when you install the python option during SQL Server 2017's…
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SQL Server: More popular than all open-source NoSQL engines combined

22 Apr 201825 Jan 2019
(popularity ranked here) GE's famous CEO Jack Welch had a mantra, if one of his product lines wasn't in 1st or 2nd place, he would get rid of them. Some…
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Which kind of big counts in big data?

21 Apr 201825 Jan 2019
Microsoft Research's Cambridge group wrote a paper with the mocking title Nobody ever got fired for using Hadoop on a cluster.  In it they found that 50% of internal analytics…
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More money = more value? When to get out of the cloud and come down-to-earth

21 Apr 201825 Jan 2019
Both at work and in class, I've had some opportunities to do cloud computing. It's interesting technology. But this was always on someone else's dime and mostly I didn't spend…
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A few good questions > many cool answers

21 Apr 201825 Jan 2019
Some time ago, I read this Forbes article, Big Data: Too Many Answers, Not Enough Questions. First of all the title is wrong, since this is really about data science,…

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