The value of using big data technologies in computational social science

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn 04-07-August-2014, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Ch'ng, Eugene ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM NINGBO CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Computational social science; Data mining; Open source; Social network analysis; Twitter

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COMPLEX NETWORKS; DATA HANDLING; DATA MINING; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); SOCIAL SCIENCES; SOCIAL SCIENCES COMPUTING;

COMPUTATIONAL SOCIAL SCIENCE; DATA ARCHITECTURES; OPEN SOURCES; OPEN-SOURCE TECHNOLOGY; SOCIAL INFORMATION; SOCIAL MEDIA DATUM; TWITTER; TWITTER SOCIAL NETWORKS;

BIG DATA;

EID: 84986001286     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2640087.2644162     Document Type: Conference Paper

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