Learning Computatial Methods

Tosea: For social scientists, it's not so much a fear or an apprehension, but it's mystifying. He says learning computatial methods has a very steep learning curve at the beginning. Once you get past that initial bit and learn how to use beautiful soup for passing wed pages into some very simple scraping, then people really become enthuse and see fantastic applications in their research sothere's a very steep barrier at the beginning," he adds.