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Computational analysis offers new ways to derive meaning from text. We use large corpora of text as social sensors to measure what people feel, think, and talk about, which allows us to track the emergence of shared social understandings.

This is a research hub and training center at the forefront of Computational Social Science, a rapidly growing field that leverages computational tools to advance our understanding of human behavior and the complex social dynamics it can bring about.

The program aims to broaden and deepen the doctoral student's knowledge in the subject of analytical sociology and to make the doctoral student well prepared for independent work in the field.

IAS conduct cutting-edge research on important social, political and cultural matters. The research is sociological - in its original and broadly conceived meaning.

The vision of The AI and Global Development Lab is to combine AI and earth observation to analyze the causes and consequences of human development historically, geographically, and globally—thereby enhancing research on sustainability.

Every year IAS arranges a research symposium where researchers at IAS and invited guests present their research and discuss questions of relevance for the various research areas of IAS.

Researchers from sociology and statistics implement a scalable seeded topic model that extracts interpretable meaning structures in perhaps the largest text corpus ever analyzed in the social sciences.

The Swedish Interdisciplinary Research School in Computational Social Science provides courses, seminars, and networking opportunities for doctoral students interested in the emerging field of computational social science.

Examining how different ethnic, economic, and gender groups become segregated across urban spaces, schools, and firms, and the consequences of this segregation for those affected.

To break segregation, we need to understand what causes it. Maria Brandén and Peter Hedström use large amounts of data to study what happens at the individual level, and what that means at societal level.