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Chris Bail
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Chris Bail
@chris_bail
Duke Professor directing scai.duke.edu, sicss.io & polarizationlab.com author of Breaking the Social Media Prism.
- I would be much more proud of this new t-shirt had it not been recommended to me by Amazon
- 1/ Can A.I. do our literature reviews for us? Stop everything and try elicit.org, an amazing new tool that uses large language models to answer research questions via empirical research- in the video below I ask it "Does social media negatively impact mental health?"
00:00 - 1/ The *last* thing we need right now is more untested speculation about how to fix social media. We have *research* that can help us evaluate @elonmusk’s proposals to transform Twitter, and many of these studies might inspire him to throw some cold water on his plans 🧵
- 1/n Are you a *complete beginner* in computational social science who wants to learn how to code? I'm happy to announce our new "coding bootcamp" video tutorials for the Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science: compsocialscience.github.io/summer-institu…
- How can we use data science to solve social problems? My "Data Science and Society" course at Duke University is once again fully open-source, with new material coming throughout the semester: youtube.com/watch?time_con… Class website: dssoc.github.io/schedule/
- 1/5 Interested in learning how to collect and analyze social media data using topic models, text networks, or word2vec? I'm pleased to announce I am releasing an open source version of my "Text as Data" class from Duke's Data Science program: cbail.github.io/textasdata/Tex…
- VERY exciting news from @twitter today: 1) academics can now apply for access to the full historical archive of tweets; 2) we can now collect far more tweets each month than in the past; 3) better ways of tracking conversations and filtering tweets...and many other goodies!Academics are one of the biggest groups using the #TwitterAPI to research what’s happening. Their work helps make the world (& Twitter) a better place, and now more than ever, we must enable more of it. Introducing 🥁 the Academic Research product track! blog.twitter.com/developer/en_u…
- YouTube's algorithm is *not* radicalizing people according to a study by leading scholars that examined 29 million YouTube viewing sessions and recently appeared in a prestigious peer reviewed journal: pnas.org/content/118/32…
- 1/ Do you want to learn about computational social science online *for free*? Announcing the brand new video archive from the Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science, with more than 167 videos created by 17 top scholars, + many more to come! sicss.io/overview
00:00 - When you get your undergraduate degree you feel like you know everything; when you get your masters degree you feel like you know nothing. When you get your PhD you still feel like you know nothing, but realize that neither does anyone else 😂
- 1/n Want to learn about computational social science this summer? We are posting high-quality video lectures of ALL the material from the Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science (#SICSS2020) by @msalganik and I over the next few weeks! compsocialscience.github.io/summer-institu…
- Are you interested in learning how data science can solve societal problems? My entire "Data Science and Society" course for undergrads @DukeU is now available online featuring video lectures in unnecessarily high definition! dssoc.github.io/schedule/
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