Methods Hub
Exploring computational methods for your social science research?
The Methods Hub is your starting point. As an open community portal, we bring together practical tools, tutorials, and interactive environments that help you explore and apply computational approaches—from data collection and preprocessing to analysis, results visualization and validation—to solve your social science research problems. Whether you're just getting started or looking to expand your toolkit, you'll find resources designed to support your research every step of the way.
Library
The computational methods gathered from our community are presented from a social science perspective, highlighting their relevance and applicability to the field. Each methods' page connects to various additional resources such as the code and documentation for reproducibility, related datasets for replicability, and tutorials for learning more about using the method.
Latest Methods
- Social Media Entity Extractor
Extract URLs, user mentions, hashtags, and more from texts - 4TCT: A 4chan Text Collection Tool
Gather live stream of social media posts across all boards of the 4chan platform - Telegram Data Collector
Collect Telegram messages across public channels
Latest Tutorials
- Visualize Numerical Data Across Groups
Learn to use basic plot types and their variants in R to visualize numeric data that is split into groups - Comparing Labeling Behaviour of Annotator Groups
Learn how to measure and interpret group-specific annotation behavior - A Practical Guide to Multilingual Large Language Model (RoBERTa) Classification
Learn how to customize (personalize through fine-tuning) and use a large language model for text classification in a language of interest
Many of our methods and tutorials support interactive environments, that allow you to explore and run them directly in your browser—no setup, no hassle. Just click a button to launch and start experimenting with real code, using sample data or your own.
Have a method or tutorial to share?
Wonderful! We welcome community contributions and provide a way to increase the reach and visibility of your work. Don’t let your tools get lost in supplementary materials—publish them on the Methods Hub as a second outlet. We accept a wide range of formats, from full libraries and packages to analysis pipelines or simple code snippets—as long as they’re reusable and well documented. Currently, submission is in closed beta, but we will open our submission system to everyone end of 2025. Stay tuned!