# Computational Social Science **Entity class:** Scientific field ## Definition **Computational social science** uses large-scale digital data, network analysis, simulation, machine learning, and statistical inference to study human behavior and social organization. It makes interaction, diffusion, mobility, coordination, and institutional change available to computational analysis. ## Relevance to this collection It connects [[wiki/Kathleen Carley|Kathleen M. Carley]], [[wiki/Alex Pentland|Alex Pentland]], [[wiki/Dynamic Network Analysis|Dynamic Network Analysis]], [[wiki/Social Physics|Social Physics]], and [[wiki/Agent-Based Modeling|Agent-Based Modeling]]. ## Relationships - **master collection:** [[collections/Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and the Intelligence Environment|Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and the Intelligence Environment]]. - **intellectual neighborhood:** [[wiki/Intellectual Neighborhood of the Counterterrorism Collection|Intellectual Neighborhood of the Counterterrorism Collection]]. ## Sources / Provenance - [MIT News, “Social physics,” March 4, 2014](https://news.mit.edu/2014/social-physics-0304). **As of:** 2026-09-23