Comments for Computational Social Science http://compsocialscience.org Spring 2013, Department of Applied Mathematics, Columbia University Tue, 19 Feb 2013 03:23:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Comment on Lecture 2: An Introduction to Counting by Lecture 3: Counting at Scale, Part I | Computational Social Science http://compsocialscience.org/2013/02/lecture-2-an-introduction-to-counting/#comment-2 Lecture 3: Counting at Scale, Part I | Computational Social Science Tue, 19 Feb 2013 03:23:06 +0000 http://compsocialscience.org/?p=56#comment-2 [...] Last week we saw that many social science questions can be answered by simply counting relevant quantities in the data. For example looking at the median rank of movies viewed by an individual allowed us to compute the persons’s eccentricity, a value that we then used to gauge the impact of larger catalogs on people’s happiness. [...]

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