computational social science computational social science refers to the academic subdisciplines concerned with computational approaches to the social sciences this means that computers are used to model simulate and analyze social phenomena fields include computational economics computational sociology cliodynamics culturomics and the automated analysis of contents in social and traditional media it focuses on investigating social and behavioral relationships and interactions through social simulation modeling network analysis and media analysis definitions there are two terminologies that relate to each other social science computing ssc and computational social science css in literature css is referred to the field of social science that uses the computational approaches in studying the social phenomena on the other hand ssc is the field in which computational methodologies are created to assist in explanations of social phenomena computational social science revolutionizes both fundamental legs of the scientific method empirical research especially through big data by analyzing the digital footprint left behind through social online activities and scientific theory especially through computer simulation model building through social simulation social media content and traditional media content computational social science work increasingly relies on the greater availability of large databases currently constructed and maintained by a number of interdisciplinary projects including the seshat global history databank which systematically collects stateoftheart accounts of the political and social organization of human groups and how societies have evolved through time into an authoritative databank seshat is affiliated also with the evolution institute a nonprofit thinktank that uses evolutionary science to solve realworld problems dplace the database of places languages culture and environment which provides data on over 1400 human social formations the atlas of cultural evolution an archaeological database created by peter n peregrine chia the collaborative information for historical analysis a multidisciplinary collaborative endeavor hosted by the university of pittsburgh with the goal of archiving historical information and linking data as well as academicresearch institutions around the globe international institute of social history which collects data on the global social history of labour relations workers and labour human relations area files ehraf archaeology human relations area files ehraf world cultures clioinfra a database of measures of economic performance and other aspects of societal wellbeing on a global sample of societies from 1800 ce to the present the google ngram viewer an online search engine that charts frequencies of sets of commadelimited search strings using a yearly count of ngrams as found in the largest online body of human knowledge the google books corpus the analysis of vast quantities of historical newspaper content has been pioneered in computational sociology cliodynamics seshat project computational cognition digital sociology social web social network analysis online content analysis predictive analytics essa european social simulation association portal paaa panasian association for agentbased approach in social systems sciences csssa computational social science society of the americas 2019 international conference on computational social science life in the network the coming age of computational social science retrieved june 10 2015 seshat 