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<p><span style="color:#1F497D">Please note that</span><span style="color:#1F497D"> today</span><span style="color:#1F497D">’s STS Circle with David Lazer will be held in Pound Hall 200 on the Harvard Law School Campus.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:black">David Lazer</span></b><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;color:black">Computational Social Science: The Use of "Big Data" to Study Human Behavior</span></b><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Please RSVP<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:black"><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1HbdY3j1fVcUeE-UqQ7pN5clAxQtaQX7Ux6Y0tRMM9E8/viewform" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">via
our online</span></b></a></span><b><span style="color:black"><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1HbdY3j1fVcUeE-UqQ7pN5clAxQtaQX7Ux6Y0tRMM9E8/viewform" target="_blank"> form</a></span></b><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:black"> before</span><span style="color:black"> Thursday
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social systems? That is, what are the possibilities in repurposing the digital breadcrumbs we leave behind into an understanding of human society? This talk will examine the potential of a social science based on big data, but will also discuss the major
challenges. The focal example will be Google Flu Trends (GFT), built on research published in Nature in 2008, which claimed to accurately “nowcast” flu prevalence, but which has been an abject failure the last several years. The likely reasons for its failure
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="color:black">Biography: </span></b></span><span style="color:black"> David Lazer is Distinguished University Professor of Political Science and Computer and Information Science, Northeastern
University, Co-Director, NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks. His research focuses on the nexus of social networks, computational social science, and collective intelligence. He is an Associate Editor for Social Networks and Network Science, and a reviewing
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