Sequence Analysis: Its Past, Present, and Future

Speaker:  Tim Liao, State University of New York at Stony Brook  Abstract: The application of sequence analysis (SA) in the social sciences, especially in life course research, has mushroomed in...

Machine Learning for Social Science

Speaker: Ian Lundberg, Cornell University  Abstract: This talk is based on a paper with Jennie Brand and Nanum Jeon. Computational power and big data have created new opportunities to explore...

Text Analysis for Social Science

Speaker: Ana Macanovic, Utrecht University  Abstract: The emergence of big data and computational tools has introduced new possibilities for using large-scale textual sources in social science research. We discuss five...