Data, Data, Data

Samuli Reijula & Max Noichl

2024-06-19

Why would we even want data?

• We are sometimes interested in empirical questions.
• Is my model relevant to the phenomenon? Are we in the proper problem-space?
• There is interest in policy proposals.

Data sources

• Citations vs. Text
• Web of Science ($$$)
• Scopus ($$)
• Dimensions ($$)
• Crossref
• OpenAlex

What we’ve tried

with OpenAlex Data

The emergence of

Computational Social Science

How to connect ABMs to Data?

How to connect ABMs to Data?

• Just run the ABM on the citation network…
• Make up networks with realistic params (Network-generation (Holme-Kim), Block-Models, ERGM)
• Replication patterns in data vs. actually fitting.
• Can you sample networks from text-embeddings?
• Dimensionality-reduction → spatial ABMs

Thank you!

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Literature