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SOCKS: The Science of Online Corpora, Knowledge, and Stories - Video
6/25/2025
"SOCKS is a big data tool which enables us to understand human text in ways that reveal things about human beings. Whether it's Wikipedia or Twitter or Reddit or all these kind of spaces where people talk, we can see things that are happening in all those conversations that we couldn't see if we're just looking one page at a time or one tweet at a time." Randall Harp, Associate Professor of Philosophy, UVM
"SOCKS is a big data tool which enables us to understand human text in ways that reveal things about human beings. Whether it's Wikipedia or Twitter or Reddit or all these kind of spaces where people talk, we can see things that are happening in all those conversations that we couldn't see if we're just looking one page at a time or one tweet at a time." Randall Harp, Associate Professor of Philosophy, UVM

Katie Ekstrom Grenon, SOCKS Doctoral Candidate, Interprofessional Health Sciences Program at UVM
7/31/2025
"I wish I had started sooner because this is so fun and there's so much to do, but I couldn't have. I think we needed this technological computational revolution to ask kinds of questions that are really important for improving human outcomes." Katie Ekstrom Grenon, SOCKS Doctoral Candidate, Interprofessional Health Sciences Program, UVM
"I wish I had started sooner because this is so fun and there's so much to do, but I couldn't have. I think we needed this technological computational revolution to ask kinds of questions that are really important for improving human outcomes." Katie Ekstrom Grenon, SOCKS Doctoral Candidate, Interprofessional Health Sciences Program, UVM