As a follow-up to my post about ten papers that shaped my science, here are ten favorite books. I limit myself to science-themed books; I get inspired by fiction /other non-fiction too. 🙂 Schelling, Micromotives and Macrobehavior, 1978 Many of my fellow computational social scientists have read it (and those who haven’t already, definitely should). […]
Category: History
Why computational social science? 1960s edition
(This post is a spin-off from this essay by Fredrik Liljeros and me.) The use of computers and numerical techniques (except regression analysis) has always been outside of mainstream social and behavioral science. At the same time, computational social science was not born later than computational physics or chemistry (although it is a bit hard […]
Female pioneers in our field
Science is a man’s world. My field is not the most macho, but still, it’s worth mentioning some unsung female pioneers. Working on our essay about simulation in social science, I learned about some I didn’t know of before: Helen Hall Jennings—was behind both the methods and data collection of Jacob Moreno’s “sociograms.” Even though there […]
Petter Holme 