Programming as Social Science

A network by @pdbrooker (@LivUniSoc) and @mark_carrigan (@CamEdFac) committed to practice-led research into the role of programming within the social sciences.

[Digital Education Manchester @DTCEManchester]

Exciting opportunity to join our team @EducationUoM: two year postdoctoral position w/ @Louis_Major_ exploring digital technology’s role in personalising learning and assessment. Closing date Jan 31st.

Please share with anyone who might be interested 👇
https://t.co/d9TkOaz4Rc

[Sage Libraries @Sage_libraries]

Haven't mastered your Python skills yet? @pdbrooker talked to #SAGECampus about digital data, form and content and how to teach #PaSS with #Python. Head over to our blog to find out more!
#Programming #SocialScience #DataScience #Research

https://t.co/JVuG3SfFPx

[Digital Education Manchester @DTCEManchester]

We've got exciting events planned for the 22/23 academic year:

- Monthly webinar on urgent issues in digital ed
- Internal programme of digital engagement workshops
- Philosophy of technology reading group
- Monthly seminar on social media for academics

Watch this space 👀

[Big Data & Society @BigDataSoc]

Check out Phillip Brooker's (@pdbrooker) new commentary: Computational ethnography: A view from sociology'. Part of our ongoing #MachineAnthropology special issue. #digitalmethods, #ethnography

[Programming as Social Science @ProgSocSci]

This will be a fantastic talk, get along if you can!

[Programming as Social Science @ProgSocSci]

@jboy @FosdemResearch Brilliant, thank you for the tip John, looking forward to it!

[Big Data & Society @BigDataSoc]

New paper from the #MachineAnthropology special theme 🚨 'The Thick Machine: Anthropological AI between explanation and explication' by Anders Kristian Munk (@anderskmunk), Asger Gehrt Olesen (@asgergehrt) and Mathieu Jacomy (@jacomyma). Read more here: https://t.co/F0Etsw5tFO

[ZenBot @_Zen_Bot_]

ZenBot is ON STRIKE! @ULivUCU2 members are striking to fight for the jobs of lecturers in HLS (read more and find out what you can do to help at: https://t.co/kvK09aXmCj). Support us with Zen, solidarity and bots. #FightForHealthJobs

[ZenBot @_Zen_Bot_]

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[Sage Methods @Sage_Methods]

Catch up on the latest #SAGECampus blog post! Our online course instructor, @pdbrooker talks about #Programming as Social Science and how to teach PaSS with #Python. #SocialScience #DataScience #Research https://t.co/2FycwxP3XG

[Programming as Social Science @ProgSocSci]

@hcaelacceber Excellent file naming conventions though! 😂 Thankyou!

[Programming as Social Science @ProgSocSci]

Bootcamp #2 is finished! 🙌

Would any of our participants like to share their experience?

[Programming as Social Science @ProgSocSci]

I LOVE this kind of stuff; interesting to think about applications of computer programming that use hardware to engage with the world (esp. that calls back to old-school forms like telegrams and switchboards). And, of course, always a sucker for a big red arcade button.

[Manu @mrcatacroquer]

Hello world! I want to share with you a device I made, its name is "Yayagram", a machine that helps our beloved elders to keep communicating with their grandchildren . How? Let me open a thread to give you all the details of this contraption.

[Programming as Social Science @ProgSocSci]

We've got one week left of the bootcamp. By next week we'll have produced working prototypes for data mining, data visualisation, web scraping and a Twitter bot!

[Programming as Social Science @ProgSocSci]

@hcaelacceber Am sure we can find a way to talk about it and put a design together! 😊

[Programming as Social Science @ProgSocSci]

Ohhhh, this is great. Nice little project for anyone doing the bootcamp!

[Sekou Tyler @sqlsekou]

#DuBoisChallenge

The #DuBoisChallenge will last 7 weeks. The goal is to recreate W.E.B. Du Bois data visualizations with a modern tool. The datasets are in GitHub and the read me section will have more information about the challenge.

Link: https://t.co/hIuJFaBYNs

[Programming as Social Science @ProgSocSci]

Week 4 of our @NCRMUK Python bootcamp and people have gone from zero to web-scraping/data-mining/visualising-data/using-social-media-APIs!

[Programming as Social Science @ProgSocSci]

We're already into week 3 of the Python bootcamp and we now have three groups: digital qualitative, mixed methods and data mining. This week we're moving on from basic techniques to begin building something for the first time ⛏

[Programming as Social Science @ProgSocSci]

@wsi2016 😊