The rise of vast data sets and the emergence of new technologies is changing social science research. To support researchers develop new computational social science skills and access and work with data at a scale previously unimaginable, SAGE Publishing has launched SAGE Ocean.
SAGE is an international, leading publisher of 70 titles in Engineering, Materials Science and Computing. The collection includes the 18 journals of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers alongside other essential research from a diverse range of subjects including rehabilitation and assistive technologies, mechanical engineering and polymer materials. The collection now features the leading open access journal in its field, Advances in Mechanical Engineering.
In this month’s Big Data Newsletter, SAGE is offering readers a free course from SAGE Campus: Introduction to Big Data for Social Scientists. This short course explores how large-scale datasets and computational methods are changing social research, providing users with answers to frequently asked big data questions.
You can also catch up on our latest data science webinars! If you missed out on the Python and R webinars, you can watch the recordings for free here:
Los Angeles, CA - With so much attention to curriculum and teaching skills to improve student achievement, it may come as a surprise that something as simple as how a classroom looks could actually make a difference in how students learn. A new analysis finds that the design and aesthetics of school buildings and classrooms has surprising power to impact student learning and success. The paper is published today in the inaugural issue of Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences (PIBBS).
Los Angeles, CA - With so much attention to curriculum and teaching skills to improve student achievement, it may come as a surprise that something as simple as how a classroom looks could actually make a difference in how students learn. A new analysis finds that the design and aesthetics of school buildings and classrooms has surprising power to impact student learning and success. The paper is published today in the inaugural issue of Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences (PIBBS).
Los Angeles, CA - Leading independent and academic publisher SAGE, has today launched Big Data & Society, an open access (OA), peer reviewed scholarly journal dedicated to exploring the implications of Big Data for societies. Big Data& Society aims to move beyond the usual notions of Big Data and provide a platform for connecting debates on how Big Data practices are reconfiguring academic, social, industry, business and government relations, expertise, methods, concepts and knowledge.
This month SAGE Publishing took to the stage as part of the ESRC’S Festival of Social Science, looking at the impact of big data on social research. You can watch a full video of the panel debate in our latest Big Data and Social Research newsletter below.
Already planning your activities for 2017? Well look now further- we have also done a quick roundup of some of next year’s computational social science summer schools and workshops, find out more in the latest edition.
This month's Big Data Newsletter shares the news that the 2018 Summer Institute in Computational Social Science has launched. The event will include lectures, group problem sets, and participant-led research projects and is aimed at both social scientists and data scientists and will be held at Duke University in mid-June.
SAGE Ocean announced today that it has awarded a Concept Grant to Text Wash, a new software tool that anonymizes personally identifiable text data, making it accessible to social scientists without compromising its usability for research.
Los Angeles, CA - SAGE today announces that it will begin publishing Annals of Otology, Rhinology & Laryngology (Annals), effective immediately.
Survey Results Explore Trends in Big Data Research among Social Scientists
Washington, DC - From abortion and euthanasia to climate change, stem cell research, hydraulic fracturing, and medical marijuana, science has become increasingly politicized. This trend is deepened by the role government funding plays in scientific research and development. Exploring this uneasy alliance between two realms that, until recent times, had little to do with each other is the new Science and Politics: An A-to-Z Guide to Issues and Controversies, published by CQ Press.