Data Science and Social Research

Preface.- INDEX.- Introduction. Enrica Amaturo, Biagio Aragona.- Part I Epistemology: On Data, Big Data and Social Research. Is It a Real Revolution? Federico Neresini.-New Data Science - The Sociological Point of View; Biagio Aragona.- Data Revolutions in Sociology; Barbara Saracino.- Blurry Boundaries: Internet, Big New Data and Mixed-Method Approach; Enrica Amaturo, Gabriella Punziano.- Social Media and the Challenge of Big Data/Deep Data Approach; Giovanni Boccia Artieri.- Governing by Data - Some Considerations on the Role of Learning Analytics in Education; Rosanna De Rosa.- Part II Methods, Software and Data Architectures: A Knowledge-based Model for Clustering and Hierarchical Disjoint Non-negative Factor Analysis; Mario Fordellone, Maurizio Vichi.- TaLTaC 3.0. A Multi-levelWeb Platform for Textual Big Data in the Social Sciences; Sergio Bolasco and Giovanni De Gasperis.- Latent Growth and Statistical Literacy; Emma Zavarrone.- University of Bari's Website Evaluation; Laura Antonucci, Marina Basile, Corrado Crocetta, Viviana D'Addosio, Francesco D. d'Ovidio, Domenico Viola.- Advantages of Administrative Data - Three Analyses of Students' Careers in Higher Education; Andrea Amico, Giampiero D'Alessandro, Alessandra Decataldo.- Growth Curve Models to Detect Walking Impairment: the Case of InCHIANTI Study; Catia Monicolini, Carla Rampichini.- 1) Recurrence Analysis - Method and Applications; Maria Carmela Catone, Paolo Diana, Marisa Faggini.- Part III On-line Data Applications: Big Data and Network Analysis - A Promising Integration for Decision-Making; Giovanni Giuffrida, Simona Gozzo, Francesco Mazzeo Rinaldi, Venera Tomaselli.- White House Under Attack - Introducing Distributional Semantic Model for the Analysis of US Crisis Communication Strategies; Fabrizio Esposito, Estella Esposito, Pierpaolo Basile.- #theterrormood - Studying the World Mood after the Terror Attacks on Paris and Bruxelles; Rosanna Cataldo, Roberto Galasso,

Carlo Natale Lauro is Professor Emeritus of Statistics at the University of Naples Federico II, where he was Chair of the Ph.D. course on computational statistics (1988-2014). He was President of the International Association for Statistical Computing and International Federation of Classification Societies. His main scientific interests include data science, multivariate analysis, computational statistics and data mining.

Enrica Amaturo is Full Professor of Sociology and Head of the Department of Social Sciences of the University of Naples Federico II. She is President of the Italian Sociological Association and was a member of the Italian Commission on Social Exclusion (1999-2001; 2007-2011). Her main interests are methods for the analysis of new media, mixed-methods research and the analysis of social exclusion.

Biagio Aragona is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Department of Social Sciences of the University of Naples Federico II, where he teaches social research methods and advanced methods for quantitative research. His research activities primarily involve the use of statistical sources for the analysis of social inequalities and the analysis of the challenges and opportunities that new data offer for the social sciences.