General

To ensure global participation from the academic community, Social Science One has established commission committees in different regions and are holding or attending conferences all over the world. The co-chairs, Gary King and Nathaniel Persily, have...

Social Science One’s two-part structure has a commission of distinguished academics who sign confidentiality agreements, and forgo the right to publish without prior approval or apply for grants as part of the process. The commission serves as a trusted...

Participating companies will have access to the best academic researchers in the world to help them solve their most difficult technical problems.  At the same time, Social Science One ensures that data access to researchers occurs in ways that do not...

Numerous firms employ large numbers of first rate data scientists, but these researchers must spend much of their time working on specific questions of direct interest to the company. They often also contribute to the public good, and sometimes even...

If you are collecting informative data on people, groups, or societies in the process of doing business, enlisting independent academics to do research can help your company, your customers, your stockholders, and all of society. Although the data was...

While privacy concerns are certainly justified in the wake of recent revelations (after all, the Cambridge Analytica scandal began with misconduct by an academic), now is precisely the time to solve this problem in an effort to restore trust. Social...

For datasets that raise no legitimate privacy concerns, data may be released publicly or with minimal safeguards, such as highly aggregated data that is already released by technology firms. For more sensitive datasets, more precautions will be put in...

Social Science One brings the efforts and talents of the scientific community to the table in studying some of the greatest challenges in modern times. In the case of the Facebook partnership, we intend for the research initiated by Social Science One to...

"The commission" is the "trusted third party mentioned above”  In the case of the Facebook partnership, the commission is composed of (a) Gary King and Nathaniel Persily as co-chairs, acting like editors of a scholarly journal and (b) other members...

Using company data in a way that respects the scientific process requires that individual academics have two assurances that have historically been difficult for industry to provide any one researcher simultaneously: (1) Complete freedom to publish...