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Tutorials on Computational Social Science

These tutorial notes accompany Computational Social Science: Foundations and Frontiers – a summer 2013 class at Beihang University.

The tutorial relies on a number of open-source software. In partular, Python 2.7.x with its networkx and nltk packages; R with iGraph, and [Gephi]. Installation instructions can be found in the warm-up excercise section below.

List of Tutorials

• Tutorial 0 – Warm-up Excercises
• Tutorial 0.2 – Computing Environment Setup
• Tutorial 0.3 – Explore network science
• Tutorial 0.4 – Process a tweet
• Tutorial 1 – Network Analysis
• Tutorial 1.1 – How large is a network?
• Tutorial 1.2 – How dense is a network?
• Tutorial 1.3 – Social Network Analysis with Flickr