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Science 6 February 2009:
Vol. 323. no. 5915, pp. 721 - 723
DOI: 10.1126/science.1167742
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Perspectives

SOCIAL SCIENCE:
Computational Social Science

David Lazer,1 Alex Pentland,2 Lada Adamic,3 Sinan Aral,2,4 Albert-László Barabási,5 Devon Brewer,6 Nicholas Christakis,1 Noshir Contractor,7 James Fowler,8 Myron Gutmann,3 Tony Jebara,9 Gary King,1 Michael Macy,10 Deb Roy,2 Marshall Van Alstyne2,11

A field is emerging that leverages the capacity to collect and analyze data at a scale that may reveal patterns of individual and group behaviors.

1Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA. E-mail: david_lazer{at}harvard.edu. Complete affiliations are listed in the supporting online material.

2Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.

3University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.

4New York University, New York, NY, USA.

5Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA.

6Interdisciplinary Scientific Research, Seattle, WA, USA.

7Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA.

8University of California-San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.

9Columbia University, New York, NY, USA

10Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA.

11Boston University, Boston, MA, USA.

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