Please note that today's STS Circle with David Lazer will be held in Pound Hall
200 on the Harvard Law School Campus.
STS Circle at Harvard
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David Lazer
Northeastern, Political Science
on
Computational Social Science: The Use of "Big Data" to Study Human Behavior
Monday, September 15
12:15-2:00 pm
****New Location: Pound Hall 200, Harvard Law School****
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Lunch is provided if you RSVP.
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before Thursday morning, September 11.
Abstract: What is potential of "big data" in understanding social systems?
That is, what are the possibilities in repurposing the digital breadcrumbs we
leave behind into an understanding of human society? This talk will examine
the potential of a social science based on big data, but will also discuss the
major challenges. The focal example will be Google Flu Trends (GFT), built on
research published in Nature in 2008, which claimed to accurately "nowcast" flu
prevalence, but which has been an abject failure the last several years. The
likely reasons for its failure point to more systematic challenges for big
data, and how research on big data needs to be done and organized within the
academy.
Biography: David Lazer is Distinguished University Professor of Political
Science and Computer and Information Science, Northeastern University,
Co-Director, NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks. His research focuses on the
nexus of social networks, computational social science, and collective
intelligence. He is an Associate Editor for Social Networks and Network
Science, and a reviewing editor for Science. His research has been published in
such journals as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, the
American Political Science Review, Public Opinion Quarterly, and the
Administrative Science Quarterly.
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