Handbook of Computational Social Science for Policy

This open access handbook describes foundational issues, methodological approaches and examples on how to analyse and model data using Computational Social Science (CSS) for policy support. Up to now, CSS studies have mostly developed on a small, proof-of concept, scale that prevented from unleashin...

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description This open access handbook describes foundational issues, methodological approaches and examples on how to analyse and model data using Computational Social Science (CSS) for policy support. Up to now, CSS studies have mostly developed on a small, proof-of concept, scale that prevented from unleashing its potential to provide systematic impact to the policy cycle, as well as from improving the understanding of societal problems to the definition, assessment, evaluation, and monitoring of policies. The aim of this handbook is to fill this gap by exploring ways to analyse and model data for policy support, and to advocate the adoption of CSS solutions for policy by raising awareness of existing implementations of CSS in policy-relevant fields. To this end, the book explores applications of computational methods and approaches like big data, machine learning, statistical learning, sentiment analysis, text mining, systems modelling, and network analysis to different problems in the social sciences. The book is structured into three Parts: the first chapters on foundational issues open with an exposition and description of key policymaking areas where CSS can provide insights and information. In detail, the chapters cover public policy, governance, data justice and other ethical issues. Part two consists of chapters on methodological aspects dealing with issues such as the modelling of complexity, natural language processing, validity and lack of data, and innovation in official statistics. Finally, Part three describes the application of computational methods, challenges and opportunities in various social science areas, including economics, sociology, demography, migration, climate change, epidemiology, geography, and disaster management. The target audience of the book spans from the scientific community engaged in CSS research to policymakers interested in evidence-informed policy interventions, but also includes private companies holding data that can be used to study social sciences and are interested in achieving a policy impact.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-978422025-07-17T12:15:56Z Handbook of Computational Social Science for Policy Bertoni, Eleonora Fontana, Matteo Gabrielli, Lorenzo Signorelli, Serena Vespe, Michele Computational Social Science Data Science Big Data Analytics Statistical Learning Machine Learning Sentiment Analysis Natural Language Processing thema EDItEUR::U Computing and Information Technology::UM Computer programming / software engineering::UMB Algorithms and data structures thema EDItEUR::U Computing and Information Technology::UY Computer science::UYQ Artificial intelligence thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PB Mathematics::PBT Probability and statistics thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences thema EDItEUR::U Computing and Information Technology::UY Computer science::UYQ Artificial intelligence::UYQM Machine learning thema EDItEUR::U Computing and Information Technology::UM Computer programming / software engineering::UMB Algorithms and data structures thema EDItEUR::U Computing and Information Technology::UY Computer science::UYQ Artificial intelligence thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PB Mathematics::PBT Probability and statistics thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences thema EDItEUR::U Computing and Information Technology::UY Computer science::UYQ Artificial intelligence::UYQM Machine learning This open access handbook describes foundational issues, methodological approaches and examples on how to analyse and model data using Computational Social Science (CSS) for policy support. Up to now, CSS studies have mostly developed on a small, proof-of concept, scale that prevented from unleashing its potential to provide systematic impact to the policy cycle, as well as from improving the understanding of societal problems to the definition, assessment, evaluation, and monitoring of policies. The aim of this handbook is to fill this gap by exploring ways to analyse and model data for policy support, and to advocate the adoption of CSS solutions for policy by raising awareness of existing implementations of CSS in policy-relevant fields. To this end, the book explores applications of computational methods and approaches like big data, machine learning, statistical learning, sentiment analysis, text mining, systems modelling, and network analysis to different problems in the social sciences. The book is structured into three Parts: the first chapters on foundational issues open with an exposition and description of key policymaking areas where CSS can provide insights and information. In detail, the chapters cover public policy, governance, data justice and other ethical issues. Part two consists of chapters on methodological aspects dealing with issues such as the modelling of complexity, natural language processing, validity and lack of data, and innovation in official statistics. Finally, Part three describes the application of computational methods, challenges and opportunities in various social science areas, including economics, sociology, demography, migration, climate change, epidemiology, geography, and disaster management. The target audience of the book spans from the scientific community engaged in CSS research to policymakers interested in evidence-informed policy interventions, but also includes private companies holding data that can be used to study social sciences and are interested in achieving a policy impact. 2023-03-03T05:21:35Z 2023-03-03T05:21:35Z 2023-02-13T17:27:10Z 2023 book ONIX_20230213_9783031166242_29 OCN: 1368010371 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/61285 9783031166242 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/97842 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/61285/1/978-3-031-16624-2.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/61285/1/978-3-031-16624-2.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/61285/1/978-3-031-16624-2.pdf Springer Nature Springer International Publishing 10.1007/978-3-031-16624-2 10.1007/978-3-031-16624-2 9fa3421d-f917-4153-b9ab-fc337c396b5a 710ad807-f1be-40c8-b6b7-7d41532d13ad 9783031166242 Springer International Publishing 490 Cham [...] open access
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Handbook of Computational Social Science for Policy
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Data Science
Big Data Analytics
Statistical Learning
Machine Learning
Sentiment Analysis
Natural Language Processing
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Data Science
Big Data Analytics
Statistical Learning
Machine Learning
Sentiment Analysis
Natural Language Processing
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