I’m excited to announce the ICPSR debut of a short workshop on theoretical modeling for the social sciences. I’d be grateful if you’d pass this along to interested students and colleagues. The description is below.

If all goes well, my goal is to expand it to a two-week course and offer it on an ongoing basis. In its current form, enrollment is relatively limited. The course is live now, at https://web.cvent.com/event/fa6f81a0-1328-4ec3-8354-8831ea7a1dd1/websitePage:645d57e4-75eb-4769-b2c0-f201a0bfc6ce

Please don’t hesitate to contact me with any questions.

Thanks, and best,
Bear


Theoretical Modeling for the Social Sciences
6/20/22—6/24/22
10:00 AM-3:00 PM
University of Michigan

The core domain knowledge of any scientific discipline is made up of theoretical models, such as the Bohr model of the atom in physics. Unfortunately, in the social sciences, we teach theory-testing much more than we teach theorizing. As a result, our theories are often poorly articulated and only loosely captured by empirical tests. This is a course about how to theorize in the social sciences, using computational models and simulations as a medium. It explores both the construction of computational models, in the easy-to-learn, open-source NetLogo programming language, and ways in which theoretical models, once constructed, might be usefully connected to data.


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Bear F. Braumoeller
Baronov and Timashev Chair in Data Analytics
Director, MESO Lab
Computational Social Science CoP Co-Lead, TDAI
Professor, Department of Political Science
The Ohio State University
http://braumoeller.com


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