Events

CDS Lunch Seminar: Images as data in social science research: Where we are and where we’re headed

Speaker: Nora Webb Williams

Location: On-Line
Videoconference link: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/91634861736?pwd=TW4rWmxzdXJMRzRyZ1FHdGdRaytQZz09

Date: Wednesday, January 26, 2022

In this talk I present a brief overview of some recent published and working papers in the realm of “images as data” in the hopes of sparking a conversation about the subfield. I’ll discuss how advances in supervised and unsupervised learning are allowing social scientists to work with large collections of images as a source of data, leading to deeper engagement with important social science questions. Focusing primarily on images posted on Twitter, the working papers address questions of (1) how to design images as data research; (2) how labeler characteristics (e.g. partisanship) affect image labels and (3) the uses and abuses of image tagging services from Microsoft, Google, and Amazon.