On December 21, 2022, the Director of the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences established the Computational Social Science Department! Artur Pokropek, PhD, Professor of the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, has been appointed the head of the Department.
The goal of the Department is to develop and provide methods and tools for the social sciences to analyze digital behavioural data (produced in interactions with computers, phones and other devices) and to combine digital with traditional types of survey data to improve the analysis of a wide range of socio-cultural phenomena. The Department will address these tasks using machine learning, natural language processing, network analysis, psychometrics and statistical modelling, combining various research and statistical techniques with social science expertise.