Computation for Social Sciences
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- 23 min
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Estimated Time: 23 min
Course Level: Beginner
Summary
Learn how to use built-in and external data to explore or model concepts and ideas using Wolfram Language. This lesson incorporates examples from literature, history, sociology and political science to showcase Wolfram Language as a complete, integrated and highly automated platform for doing social science. Examples include analyzing text from four Sherlock Holmes books, tracking the fall of the Roman Empire, mapping social networks, creating a machine learning classifier to identify author names and determining political sentiment from tweets.
Featured Products & Technologies: Wolfram Language (available in Mathematica and Wolfram|One)
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
