Computational Social Science Courses and Certifications

Microcredential

Computational Social Science

129 reviews

Explore the intersection of technology and society with this 26-week course from UC Davis. Learn to use computational tools to understand human behavior, study digital footprints, and simulate hypothetical scenarios.

• Coursera
• 26 weeks, 3 hours a week
• On-Demand
• Paid Course
• 5 courses

Computational Social Science Methods

126 reviews

Explore the reach and applications of computational social science in this 4-week course by UC Davis. Learn about machine learning, social networks, and computer simulation.

• Coursera
• 11 hours 20 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course (Audit)

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Computer Simulations

46 reviews

Explore theoretical possibilities in social science with UC Davis's course on computer simulations. Learn to build and study artificial societies, combining models with real-world data.

• Coursera
• 12 hours 49 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Computational Social Science Capstone Project

32 reviews

UC Davis offers a 4-week course where students apply computational social science skills to a capstone project, involving data scraping, network visualization, machine learning, and simulation modeling.

• Coursera
• 13 hours 38 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Social Network Analysis

5 reviews

This course is designed to quite literally ‘make a science’ out of something at the heart of society: social networks. In the first part of the course we focus on network structure. In our hands-on lab, you will also visualize and analyze a network with…

• Coursera
• 10 hours 10 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Agent-Based Models with Python: An Introduction to Mesa

About the Tutorial: This tutorial introduces Agent-Based Modeling with the python-based libraryMesa, throughthe seminalSugarscape with Traders model fromGrowing Artificial Societiesby Joshua M. EpsteinandRobert L. Axtell (1996). This model represents an…

• Complexity Explorer
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course

Devoxx

Signals from the Deep Web - Making Sense of Ephemeral and Anonymous Content

Explore computational social science with Devoxx. Learn data scraping, machine learning, and reasoning in under an hour. Discover how to capture deep web data and analyze it for potential manipulation.

• YouTube
• 50 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Simons Institute

Human-AI Interaction in the Age of Large Language Models

Explore human-AI interaction with large language models in this under 1-hour material from Simons Institute. Learn how AI can transform social science and support therapists.

• YouTube
• 59 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course

Alan Turing Institute

Towards Human Behavior Modelling from Mobile Data - Dr. Nuria Oliver

Explore human behavior modeling using mobile data with Dr. Nuria Oliver from the Alan Turing Institute. Learn to infer personality, financial responsibility, and more from mobile phone data.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 3 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

An Agent-Based Model to Evaluate Interventions on Online Dating Platforms to Decrease Racial Homogamy

Explore ACM's brief study on using agent-based models to reduce racial homogamy on dating platforms, including literature review, simulation, and results.

• YouTube
• 19 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk