The Computational Social Science Lab is an interdisciplinary research group that works at the intersection of AI, data, and society. We are part of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto.

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Research

Quantifying social organization and political polarization in online platforms
Isaac Waller and Ashton Anderson. Nature 2021.
Detecting Individual Decision-Making Style: Exploring Behavioral Stylometry in Chess
Reid McIlroy-Young, Russell Wang, Siddhartha Sen, Jon Kleinberg, Ashton Anderson. NeurIPS 2021.
Linguistic effects on news headline success: Evidence from thousands of online field experiments
Kristina Gligorić, George Lifchits, Robert West, Ashton Anderson. PLOS One, 2021.
The Complementary Nature of Perceived and Actual Time Spent Online in Measuring Digital Well-Being
Lillio Mok and Ashton Anderson. CSCW 2021.
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Blog

Social media's social structure
A new method for quantifying online social structure and applying it to political polarization on Reddit.
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Imagine All The People: A Social Map of Music on Reddit
What connects the Foo Fighers, James Blunt, and Eminem?
Introducing Maia: a Human-Like Chess Engine
We develop and introduce Maia, a machine learning model that captures human style in chess.

People

Ashton Anderson
Karim Hamadeh
Lillio Mok
Marc-Etienne Brunet
Reid McIlroy-Young