Computational Social Science in the Age of Big Data

Preface Cathleen M. Stuetzer / Martin Welker / Marc Egger 9 Big Data Analytics: Obstacles and Opportunities for Social Science I. Epistemological Perspectives Brenda L. Berkelaar / Luis Francisco-Revilla 16 Motivation, Evidence, and Computation: A Research Framework for Expanding Computational Social Science Participation and Design Biagio Aragona 63 Beyond Data Driven Social Science: Researching Big Data Assemblages Jan R. Riebling 77 The Medium Data Problem in Social Science II . Data, Methods, and Instruments Jakob Jünger 104 Mapping the Field of Automated Data Collection on the Web: Collection Approaches, Data Types, and Research Logic Mareike Wieland / Anne-Marie In der Au / Christine Keller / Sören Brunk / Thomas Bettermann / Lutz M. Hagen / Thomas Schlegel 131 Online Behavior Tracking in Social Sciences: Quality Criteria and Technical Implementation Elisabeth Günther / Damian Trilling / Bob van de Velde 161 But How Do We Store It? (Big) Data Architecture in the Social-Scientific Research Process Fionn Murtagh 188 The Geometric Data Analysis and Correspondence Analysis Platform: New Potential and New Challenges, Including Ethics, of Big Data Analytics Ulrik Brandes / Michael Hamann / Mark Ortmann / Dorothea Wagner 213 On the Persistence of Strongly Embedded Ties Yannis Skarpelos 235 Big Visual Data in Social Sciences III . Case Studies Ji-Ping Lin 268 Human Relationships and Kinship Analytics from Big Data Based on Data Science: A Study on Ethnic Marriage and Identity Using Taiwan's Indigenous Peoples as an Example Alessandro Cimbelli / Cinzia Conti / Fiorenza Deriu 303 The Use of Big Data in Studying Migration Routes: New Tools and Applications Theoni Stathopoulou / Haris Papageorgiou / Konstantina Papanikolaou / Athanasia Kolovou 326 Exploring the Dynamics of Protest with Automated Computational Tools. A Greek Case Study Jérémy Ducros / Elisa Grandi / Pierre-Cy rille Hautcoeur / Raphaël Hekimian / Emmanuel Prunaux / Angelo Riva / Stefano Ungaro 355 Collecting and Storing Historical Financial Data: DFIH Project Daniel Richter / Michael Bartl 378 Affective Computing Applied to a Recipe Recommendation System IV. Tutorial Section Rianne Conijn / Wouter Nij Bijvank / Chris Snijders / Ad Kleingeld / Uw e Matzat 396 From Raw to Ready-made Data. A Hands-on Manual for Pre-processing Learning Management System Log Data for Learning Analytics Yannick Rieder / Simon Kühne 423 Geospatial Analysis of Social Media Data - A Practical Framework and Applications Using Twitter Authors 447