Social Sciences, Future Tense

Ensuring the data-rich future of the social sciences.

Massive increases in the availability of informative social science data are making dramatic progress possible in analyzing, understanding, and addressing many major societal problems. Yet the same forces pose severe challenges to the scientific infrastructure supporting data sharing, data management, informatics, statistical methodology, and research ethics and policy, and these are collective...

The Future of Spatial Analysis in the Social Sciences

file:///N|/Voss/Courses/Spatial%20Statistics/Books%20and%20Articles/Anselin%20L.%201999.htm (1 of 25)6/9/2006 2:36:06 PM The Future of Spatial Analysis in the Social Sciences This paper presents a personal view on some emerging research directions at the interface of social science and spatial analysis. Particular emphasis is placed on methodological challenges presented by developments in soci...

Future Perfect? The Future of the Social Sciences in Public Health

This is a critical and perhaps unprecedented time for the social sciences in public health. While there are many opportunities for the social sciences to continue making transformative contributions to improve population health, there are significant challenges in doing so, particularly in a rapidly changing political landscape. Such challenges are both external (e.g., congressional calls for r...

Citizenship, Social Media, and Big Data: Current and Future Research in the Social Sciences

This special issue of the Social Science Computer Review provides a sample of the latest strategies employing large data sets in social media and political communication research. The proliferation of information communication technologies, social media, and the Internet, alongside the ubiquity of high-performance computing and storage technologies, has ushered in the era of computational socia...

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