Wolfram U

Computation for Social Sciences

Estimated Time: 23 min

Course Level: Beginner

Summary

Would you find it useful to have a complete, integrated and fully automated platform for doing social science computations? Learn how to use built-in and external data to explore or model concepts and ideas using Wolfram Language. Examples include analyzing texts written by different authors, mapping boundaries of historical empires, social network analysis and determining political sentiment from tweets.

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You'll Learn To

  • Find the frequency of specific words in texts
  • Map the expansion of historical empires over time
  • Create and annotate graphs from social network data
  • Use simple, built-in machine learning tools
  • Import data from external web APIs
  • Visualize trends in data