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The Handbook of Computational Social Science is a comprehensive reference sour...The Handbook of Computational Social Science is a comprehensive reference source for scholars across multiple disciplines. It outlines key debates in the field showcasing novel statistical modeling and machine learning methods and draws from...more
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