Computational Social Science Courses and Certifications

Computational Social Science Methods

151 ratings

Survey computational social science through four applications: digital footprints and development, machine learning and AI, social network analysis, and computer simulations of social emergence.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

• Best of All Time

Career Certificate

Computational Social Science

146 ratings

Digital technology changed both society and how we study it: use computational social science methods, social network analysis, computer simulations, and big data ethics to examine human behavior.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 10 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course
• 5 courses

Computational Social Science Capstone Project

34 ratings

Scrape YouTube videos, visualize the resulting networks in Gephi, analyze comment sentiment and emotion with IBM Watson NLP, and grow an artificial society through agent-based simulation.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Model Thinking

64 ratings

Think with many models: work through Schelling segregation, tipping points, Markov processes, random walks, the prisoners' dilemma, and replicator dynamics to explain social phenomena.

• Coursera
• 12 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

• Best of All Time

Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, and Ethics

6 ratings

Explore AI's history and applications, big data's opportunities and limits, and research ethics, using IBM Watson to profile personality from text and training Google's teachable machines.

• Coursera
• 3 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Computer Simulations

55 ratings

Grow artificial societies from the bottom up: study Schelling's segregation model and Sugarscape, then code your own agent-based model in NetLogo.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Social and Economic Networks: Models and Analysis

11 ratings

Model how social and economic networks form and shape behavior: centrality measures, Erdos-Renyi and preferential attachment models, strategic formation games, contagion, DeGroot learning.

• Coursera
• 8 weeks, 4 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

From Social Science to Data Science

Learn to apply Python to social science research using pandas for data manipulation, APIs for collection, statistical visualization, natural language processing, and GIS mapping.

• Coursera
• 15 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Future Robots. Towards a Robotic Science of Human Beings

Since the advent of computers, scientific theories can be expressed not only in words or mathematical symbols, as was formerly the case, but can be translated into computer programmes that reproduce r

• Federica
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Computation for Social Sciences: Wolfram U Class

Wolfram Language applied to social science questions: word frequencies across Sherlock Holmes books, mapping Rome's decline, social network graphs, and political sentiment drawn from tweets.

• Wolfram U
• 23 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Stanford Seminar - How Behavior Spreads

Explores why beneficial behaviors and innovations spread differently from diseases through social-network diffusion research and experiments.

• YouTube
• 1 hour
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Evaluating and Designing Computing Systems for the Future of Work

Explore how computing technologies reshape work, communication, and collaboration. Discover data-driven methods to understand and design AI-powered workplace systems for improved user experiences.

• YouTube
• 58 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Human-Centered AI for Mental Health Prediction in Social Media Data

Exploring human-centered machine learning for ethical and compassionate mental health predictions on social media, combining Media Studies and Computer Science approaches.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 4 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Online Communities as Model Systems for Commons Governance

Exploring how online communities serve as laboratories for self-governance, offering insights into institutional design and functioning through computational social science approaches.

• YouTube
• 58 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

人群与网络

114 ratings at Coursera

用图论、博弈论和网络模型分析社会互动、信息传播与市场机制，理解群体行为及其演化。

• Coursera
• 13 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course