Welcome to Big Data Social Science

Featured Projects

Working Groups

Big Data and Political Science Working Group

Big Data and Society Working Group

Data Science and Public Policy Working Group

Building a Research Infrastructure for Harnessing the Data Revolution and Its Social Implications

Big Data Social Science has three desired goals to better support big data and related research:

(1) Expand research support

(2) Help build an intellectual community around this work

(3) Help expand data science teaching

Research Support

Intellectual Community

Data Science Teaching

Statistical Support
SSCERT will be providing Statistical and Research Design Support for divisional faculty and students. Contact information regarding this new service will be available soon at sscert.ucla.edu
Innovation Technology Studio
A new facility is currently under construction to demonstrate and assist in the use of interesting and new technologies relevant to research and teaching. Contact Tom Phelan phelan@sscert.ucla.edu for additional information.
California Census Research Data Center
The California Census Research Data Center (CCRDC) will soon be moving to into its new home at SSCERT. The Data Center provides researchers access to micro level census data in a secured environment. More information is available at http://ccrdc.ucla.edu/
Data Visualization
SSCERT can provide assistance with certain data management and visualization tasks. Contact Joy Guey joy@sscert.ucla.edu for further information.