Computational-SocSci-Labs
Academic paper reviews & publication presentations for the UofT Computational Social Science course
Inside the 'pre ' folder, the paper "The spread of true and false news online" was annotated and discussed in a seminar. The annotated paper can be read here .
Inside the 'rev ' folder, reviews of 12 major papers in computational social science are written to be used for peer-review purposes throughout the course of 6 review seminars.
2.1 The spread of true and false news online (2018)
Reviewed in session 1. Review can be read here .
2.2 Quantitative Analysis of Culture Using Millions of Digitized Books (2011)
Reviewed in session 1. Review can be read here .
2.3 Large-scale physical activity data reveal worldwide activity inequality (2018)
Reviewed in session 2. Review can be read here .
2.4 Human Decisions and Machine Predictions (2017)
Reviewed in session 2. Review can be read here .
2.5 The Role of Social Networks in Information Diffusion (2012)
Reviewed in session 3. Review can be read here .
2.6 Experimental Study of Inequality and Unpredictability in an Artificial Cultural Market (2006)
Reviewed in session 3. Review can be read here .
2.7 An Experimental Study of Search in Global Social Networks (2003)
Reviewed in session 4. Review can be read here .
2.8 Algorithm aversion: People erroneously avoid algorithms after seeing them err (2014)
Reviewed in session 4. Review can be read here .
2.9 Growing Closer on Facebook: Changes in Tie Strength Through Social Network Site Use (2014)
Reviewed in session 5. Review can be read here .
2.10 Predicting poverty and wealth from mobile phone metadata (2018)
Reviewed in session 5. Review can be read here .
2.11 Crowd-sourced Text Analysis: Reproducible and Agile Production of Political Data (2016)
Reviewed in session 6. Review can be read here .
2.12 To put that in perspective: Generating analogies that make numbers easier to understand (2018)
Reviewed in session 6. Review can be read here .
2.13 Man is to computer programmer as woman is to homemaker? Debiasing word embeddings (2016)
Reviewed in session 7. Review can be read here .
2.14 Discrimination in online ad delivery (2013)
Reviewed in session 7. Review can be read here .
2.15 Experimental Evidence of Massive-scale Emotional Contagion through Social Networks (2014)
Reviewed in session 8. Review can be read here .
2.16 Where are human subjects in Big Data research? The emerging ethics divide (2016)
Reviewed in session 8. Review can be read here .