Introduction to Computational Social Sciences (SoSe 2026)

Opal: Link here.

Time: TBA

Location: TBA

Module: Sociology Department

Language: English

Assessment: TBA

Description:

Social media generates new types of data for quantifying human behavior, but also raises interesting research questions about the interaction between technology and society. In this course, we will learn the basics of computational social science and apply its methods in hands-on exercises to real-world data science problems.

Philipp Lorenz-Spreen
Philipp Lorenz-Spreen
Junior Research Group Leader

My research interests are causal inference in dynamic time series systems