My work is rooted in large-scale empirical social data: signed networks from 400M+ interactions (DerStandard corpus), longitudinal social media data, sentiment analysis and emotion detection
I held the Professor for Social and Behavioral Data Science chair at the University of Konstanz, and I have researched and taught data science at Mannheim, Konstanz, and in industry contexts
Increasingly, the most consequential social data is not just generated by humans rather is it generated by AI systems interacting with humans
That shift is where my research program lives: can we use and study AI systems and maintain the same empirical rigor we apply to human subjects?
One concrete example from our work first: using LLMs as instruments to recover what a society is feeling, at scale and over time
Social data science – and where it leads
My work is rooted in large-scale empirical social data: signed networks from 400M+ interactions (DerStandard corpus), longitudinal social media data, sentiment analysis and emotion detection
I held the Professor for Social and Behavioral Data Science chair at the University of Konstanz, and I have researched and taught data science at Mannheim, Konstanz, and in industry contexts
Increasingly, the most consequential social data is not just generated by humans rather is it generated by AI systems interacting with humans
That shift is where my research program lives: can we use and study AI systems and maintain the same empirical rigor we apply to human subjects?
One concrete example from our work first: using LLMs as instruments to recover what a society is feeling, at scale and over time