Computational-SocSci-Labs

Academic paper reviews & publication presentations for the UofT Computational Social Science course

1. Paper Presentation

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.

2. Paper Reviews

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.