What Data Science Can Tell Us About Our World

A daylong conference will cover a wide-range of topics related to computational data analysis, from how languages spread to ways of improving the value of crowdsourcing. The Data Science Workshop on Computational Social Science takes place Oct. 20. It's the first of what Dragomir Radev, the A. Bartlett Giamatti Professor of Computer Science, expects will be a regular event. "We decided we should try to cover different areas of data science," said Radev, one of the event's organizers. "We're starting with computational social science first and then switch to other areas in which data science and computer science have made an impact, for example, digital humanities, medicine, finance, etc." Radev said the event is something that likely would not have happened 10 or even five years ago.