Social sciences
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MSRNE 5th Anniversary Symposium – Society, Politics and the Algorithm: Social Science in the Lab
In this session we will hear talks from three leading researchers who study the social contexts of information technologies. They will highlight the way in which big data, algorithms and social media play a role…
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Microsoft Research New England: An introduction
Microsoft Research New England focuses on interdisciplinary work, integrating the more mathematical and algorithmic sciences with both the social sciences and aspects of the biomedical sciences. Our work includes applied projects in areas such as…
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Algorithmic Crowdsourcing
To build a machine learning based intelligent system, we often need to collect training labels and feed them into the system. A useful lesson in machine learning is that “more data beats a clever algorithm”.…