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P-values are widely used in the social sciences, but often misunderstood: and that’s a problem.

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Predicting elections on Twitter: a different way of thinking about the data

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The sum of (some) human knowledge: Wikipedia and representation in the Arab World

Experiments are the most exciting thing on the UK public policy horizon

Experiments are the most exciting thing on the UK public policy...

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How easy is it to research the Chinese web?

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Facts and figures or prayers and hugs: how people with different...

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The physics of social science: using big data for real-time predictive...

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Uncovering the structure of online child exploitation networks

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The sum of (some) human knowledge: Wikipedia and representation in the...

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Who represents the Arab world online?

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Crowdsourcing translation during crisis situations: are ‘real voices’ being excluded from...

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Slicing digital data: methodological challenges in computational social science

30 May 2012

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