New Data Science methods and mass collaborations pose both exciting opportunities and important challenges for social science research. This panel will explore the relationship between these new approaches and traditional survey methodology. Can they coexist, even enrich one another? Dr. Mathew Salganik is one of the lead organizers of the Fragile Families Challenge, which uses data science approaches such as predictive modeling, mass collaboration, and ensemble techniques in the context of the long-running Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing panel survey. Dr. Jeremy Freese is co-PI of the General Social Survey and of a project on collaborative research in the social sciences. Dr. Colter Mitchell is research faculty at the Institute for Social Research and has done innovative work combining biological data and methods with Fragile Families and other survey data sets.

Sponsored by:
Computational Social Science RIW
Population Studies Center
Michigan Institute for Data Science