Citizen Science Practices for Computational Social Science Research: The Conceptualization of Pop-Up Experiments

Citizen Science Practices for Computational Social Science Research: The Conceptualization of Pop-Up Experiments

Under the name of Citizen Science, many innovative practices in which volunteers partner up with scientists to pose and answer real-world questions are growing rapidly worldwide. Citizen Science can furnish ready-made solutions with citizens playing an active role. However, this framework is still far from being well established as a standard tool for computational social science research. Here...

Citizen Science practices for Computational Social Sciences research: The conceptualization of Pop-Up Experiments

Under the name of Citizen Science, many innovative practices in which volunteers partner with scientist to pose and answer real-world questions are quickly growing worldwide. Citizen Science can furnish ready made solutions with the active role of citizens. However, this framework is still far from being well stablished to become a standard tool for Computational Social Sciences research. We pr...

Online Experiments for Computational Social Science

Experiments are the gold standard for establishing causal relationships. While Web-based experiments (“A/B tests”) have routinely been used to assess alternative ranking models or user interface designs, they have become increasingly popular for answering important questions in the social sciences. This tutorial teaches attendees how to design, plan, implement, and analyze online experiments. F...

Social science. Computational social science.

Kinsey Reporter: Citizen Science for Sex Research

Kinsey Reporter is a global mobile app to share, explore, and visualize anonymous data about sex. Reports are submitted via smartphone, then visualized on a website or downloaded for offline analysis. In this paper we present the major features of the Kinsey Reporter citizen science platform designed to preserve the anonymity of its contributors, and preliminary data analyses that suggest quest...