Resources

Example Papers

• Diurnal and Seasonal Mood Vary with Work, Sleep, and Daylength Across Diverse Cultures
  Scott A. Golder, Michael W. Macy
  http://www.sciencemag.org/content/333/6051/1878.abstract
• Experimental Study of Inequality and Unpredictability in an Artificial Cultural Market
  Matthew J. Salganik, Peter Sheridan Dodds, Duncan J. Watts
  https://www.princeton.edu/~mjs3/salganik_dodds_watts06_full.pdf
• Experimental evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion through social networks
  Adam D. I. Kramera, Jamie E. Guillory, and Jeffrey T. Hancock
  http://www.pnas.org/content/111/24/8788.full
• THE COST OF RACIAL ANIMUS ON A BLACK PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: USING GOOGLE SEARCH DATA TO FIND WHAT SURVEYS MISS
  Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
  http://sethsd.com/ SSRN Link
• More Tweets, More Votes: Social Media as a Quantiative Indicator of Political Behavior
  Joseph DiGrazia , Karissa McKelvey, Johan Bollen, Fabio Rojas
  link
• Machine Translation: Mining Text for Social Theory
  Pete Aceves and James Evans
  link
• The Paradox of Publicity: How Awards Can Negatively Affect the Evaluation of Quality
  Kovacs, Balazs and Amanda Sharkey
  http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2350768
• A 61-million-person experiment in social influence and political mobilization
  Robert M. Bond, Christopher J. Fariss, Jason J. Jones, Adam D. I. Kramer, Cameron Marlow, Jaime E. Settle & James H. Fowler
  http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v489/n7415/full/nature11421.html
• Information, Community, and Action: How Nonprofit Organizations Use Social Media
  Kristen Lovejoy and Gregory D. Saxton
  http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2039815
• Giving up Twitter for Lent: How and Why We Take Breaks from Social Media
  Sarita Yardi Schoenebeck
  http://yardi.people.si.umich.edu/pubs/Schoenebeck_SocialMediaBreaks14.pdf

Useful Book Resources

Books Accessible for FREE Online

• Bit By Bit: Social Research in the Digital Age
• Apress Books As a Michigan student you should have free access to this wealth of books on coding.
• An Introduction to Statistical Learning (Springer) Free on MWireless
• Text Analytics with Python (Apress) Free on MWireless

Books Accessible for FREE Online Via UM Network and Library

• Ethical Reasoning in Big Data

Books Recommended by Teachers and TAs

• Computational Social Science Discovery and Prediction- Edited by Michael Alvarez link
• Ethical Reasoning in Big Data: An Exploratory Analysis by Jeff Collmann and Sorin Adam Matei link
• Learning SQL by Alan Beaulieu link
• A bunch of books by Andrew Gelman link
• Bandit Algorithms for Website Optimization by John Myles White link

Blogs

• Andrew Gelman's Blog
• John D Cook's Blog
• Cosma Shalizi's Blog
• John Myles White's Blog

Data Sources

Some gateway sources for querying data on cultural trends:

• Google search trends
• Google N Gram - books
• NYT Chronicle - New York Times
• Public data sets for text analysis

Some data hubs:

• Twitter memes
• Network datasets
• U.S. federal government datasets
• Numerous datasets
• Awesome public datasets on Github
• Detroit Open Data
• Michigan Open Data
• Littlesis.org LittleSis* is a free database of who-knows-who at the heights of business and government.
• Carnegie data on US colleges
• US DoE college data

Some useful tools:

• Dictionary of positive terms
• Dictionary of negative terms
• Example project from 2016 (scraping, sentiment analysis, graphs by time)
• Regular Expression (regex, re) help

API resources:

• Numerous APIs
• Twitter API documentation
• Facebook API example