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| The [[Community Data Science Collective]] is an interdisciplinary research group made of up of faculty at the [http://www.com.washington.edu/ University of Washington Department of Communication] and [http://www.communication.northwestern.edu/departments/communicationstudies/ Northwestern University Department of Communication Studies].
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| We are social scientists applying a range of quantitative and qualitative methods to the study of online communities. We seek to understand both how and why some attempts at collaborative production — like Wikipedia and Linux — build large volunteer communities and high quality work products.
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| Our research is particularly focused on how the design of communication and information technologies shape fundamental social outcomes with broad theoretical and practical implications — like an individual’s decision to join a community, contribute to a public good, or a group’s ability to make decisions democratically.
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| Our research is deeply interdisciplinary, most frequently consists of “big data” quantitative analyses, and lies at the intersection of communication, sociology, and human-computer interaction.
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