Noshir Contractor, SONIC Director, was a guest lecturer from July 6th-10th at the Vienna Summer School on Digital Humanities. The courses he taught included Introduction to Social Network Analysis, Descriptive Network Analytics, Predictive Network Analytics, and Leveraging Computational Social Science to Address Grand Societal Challenges. Located at the Vienna University of Technology in Vienna, Austria, the “Summer School aims to discuss the possibilities of computer science-based research methods in the Digital Humanities while at the same time investigating the epistemological challenges of these methods as well as their theoretical bases and implications.”
Advancing The Science of Networks in Communities
