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Undergraduate Module Descriptor
SSI1002: Programming for the Social Sciences
This module descriptor refers to the 2023/4 academic year.
Indicative Reading List
This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.
Basic reading:
- McLevey, J. (2021) Doing Computational Social Science: A Practical Introduction Sage Publications Ltd: London
- Van Atteveldt, W., Trilling, D. & Calderon, C. (2022) Computational Analysis of Communications: A Practical introduction to the Analysis of Texts, Networks, and Images with Code Examples in Python and R Wiley Blackwell: Chichester
- Mesquita, E. & Fowler, A. (2021) Thinking Clearly with Data: A Guide to Quantitative Reasoning and Analysis Princeton University Press Woodstock.
- Zhang, J., Wang, W., Lin, Yu-Ru, & Tong, H. (2020) ‘Data-Driven Computational Social Science: A Survey’ Big Data Researchhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.bdr.2020.100145
- Edelmann, A., Wolff, T., Montagne, D. & Bail, C. (2020) ‘Computational Social Science and Sociology’ Annual Review of Sociology 46(1): 61-81 https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-soc-121919-054621