{"repo":"jaeyk/comp_thinking_social_science","free":true,"listed":false,"github":"https://github.com/jaeyk/comp_thinking_social_science","clone":"git clone https://github.com/jaeyk/comp_thinking_social_science.git","description":"Computational Thinking for Social Scientists book project","language":"TeX","stars":73,"topics":["data-science","computational-social-science","digital-humanities","r","python","visualization","social-sciences","web-scraping","machine-learning"],"license":"CC0-1.0","category":"scrapers-browser-automation","readme_excerpt":"Computational Thinking for Social Scientists This is the git repository for Computational Thinking for Social Scientists . This book intends to help social scientists to think computationally and develop proficiency with computational tools and techniques necessary to research computational social science. Mastering these tools and techniques not only enables social scientists to collect, wrangle, analyze, and interpret data with less pain and more fun, but it also let them work on research projects that would previously seem impossible. The book is divided into two main subjects (fundamentals and applications) and six main sessions. Part I Fundamentals 1. Why computational thinking 2. Best practices in data and code management using Git and Bash 3. How to wrangle, model, and visualize data easier and faster 4. How to use functions to automate repeated things and develop data tools (e.g., packages and shiny apps) Part II Applications 5. How to collect and parse semi-structured data at scale (e.g., APIs and webscraping) 6. How to analyze high-dimensional data (e.g., text) using machine learning 7. How to access, query, and manage big data using SQL Feedback Please feel free to create issues if you find typos, errors, missing citations, etc. via the GitHub repository associated with this book. Contact Content developer: Jae Yeon Kim. Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Email: jaekim@unc.edu Special thanks This book is as much","default_branch":null,"files":null,"tree":[],"storefront":"/r/jaeyk","claimed":false,"request_supported":{"post":"https://gitbuyer.com/r/jaeyk/comp_thinking_social_science/request-supported","requests":0},"note":"indexed from public GitHub; nothing is for sale on this page. Clone it from GitHub. Paid listings live at /search."}