Lecturas
Sobre las lecturas
Este curso es autocontenido: todo lo necesario para seguir las clases y completar los laboratorios se cubre en las sesiones presenciales. Las lecturas que se listan a continuación son opcionales, pensadas para quienes quieran profundizar en algún tema o explorar aplicaciones adicionales. No es necesario leerlas antes de las sesiones.
Lecturas por día
Día 1: Fundamentos de IA y Machine Learning
Russell, S. & Norvig, P. (2021). Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach. Capítulo 1.
James, G., Witten, D., Hastie, T. & Tibshirani, R. (2021). An Introduction to Statistical Learning with Applications in R. Capítulos 1-2.
Kuhn, M. & Silge, J. (2022). Tidy Modeling with R. O’Reilly. Capítulos 1-3.
Wickham, H., Çetinkaya-Rundel, M. & Grolemund, G. (2023). R for Data Science (2da edición). O’Reilly. Capítulos 1-4.
Día 2: Aprendizaje supervisado
James, G., Witten, D., Hastie, T. & Tibshirani, R. (2021). An Introduction to Statistical Learning. Capítulos 4-6 y 8.
Breiman, L. (2001). Statistical modeling: The two cultures. Statistical Science, 16(3), 199-231.
Mullainathan, S. & Spiess, J. (2017). Machine learning: An applied econometric approach. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 31(2), 87-106.
Athey, S. & Imbens, G. W. (2019). Machine learning methods that economists should know about. Annual Review of Economics, 11, 685-725.
Muchlinski, D. et al. (2016). Comparing random forest with logistic regression for predicting class-membership. Political Analysis, 24(2), 168-185.
Día 3: Texto y aprendizaje no supervisado
Grimmer, J. & Stewart, B. (2013). Text as data: The promise and pitfalls of automatic content analysis methods for political texts. Political Analysis, 21(3), 267-297.
Silge, J. & Robinson, D. (2017). Text Mining with R: A Tidy Approach. O’Reilly.
Roberts, M. E., Stewart, B. M. & Tingley, D. (2019). stm: An R package for structural topic models. Journal of Statistical Software, 91(2), 1-40.
James, G., Witten, D., Hastie, T. & Tibshirani, R. (2021). An Introduction to Statistical Learning. Capítulos 10 y 12.
Día 4: LLMs y aplicaciones
Gilardi, F., Alizadeh, M. & Kubli, M. (2023). ChatGPT outperforms crowd workers for text-annotation tasks. PNAS, 120(30).
Bail, C. A. (2024). Can generative AI improve social science? PNAS, 121(21).
Törnberg, P. (2024). Best practices for text annotation with large language models. Sociological Methods & Research.
Argyle, L. P. et al. (2023). Out of one, many: Using language models to simulate human samples. Political Analysis, 31(3), 337-351.
Benoit, K. et al. (2026). Using large language models to analyze political texts through natural language understanding. American Journal of Political Science.
Vaswani, A. et al. (2017). Attention is all you need. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 30.
Día 5: Ética y sesgo algorítmico
O’Neil, C. (2016). Weapons of Math Destruction. Crown.
Barocas, S., Hardt, M. & Narayanan, A. (2023). Fairness and Machine Learning. MIT Press.
Eubanks, V. (2018). Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor. St. Martin’s Press.
Raji, I. D. et al. (2020). Closing the AI accountability gap: Defining an end-to-end framework for internal algorithmic auditing. ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency.
Bibliografía complementaria
Estas lecturas no son obligatorias, pero ofrecen perspectivas valiosas para profundizar en temas específicos:
- Halevy, A., Norvig, P. & Pereira, F. (2009). The unreasonable effectiveness of data. IEEE Intelligent Systems, 24(2), 8-12.
- Athey, S. (2017). Beyond prediction: Using big data for policy problems. Science, 355(6324), 483-485.
- Crawford, K. (2021). Atlas of AI. Yale University Press.
- Gentzkow, M., Kelly, B. & Taddy, M. (2019). Text as data. Journal of Economic Literature, 57(3), 535-574.
- Grimmer, J., Roberts, M. E. & Stewart, B. M. (2022). Text as Data: A New Framework. Princeton University Press.
- Lazer, D. et al. (2020). Computational social science: Obstacles and opportunities. Science, 369(6507), 1060-1062.
- Molina, M. & Garip, F. (2019). Machine learning for sociology. Annual Review of Sociology, 45, 27-45.
- Salganik, M. J. (2018). Bit by Bit: Social Research in the Digital Age. Princeton University Press.
- Ziems, C. et al. (2024). Can large language models transform computational social science? Computational Linguistics, 50(1), 237-291.
- Benoit, K. et al. (2016). Crowd-sourced text analysis: Reproducible and agile production of political data. American Political Science Review, 110(2), 278-295.
- Blei, D. M., Ng, A. Y. & Jordan, M. I. (2003). Latent Dirichlet Allocation. Journal of Machine Learning Research, 3, 993-1022.
- Hastie, T., Tibshirani, R. & Friedman, J. (2009). The Elements of Statistical Learning (2da edición). Springer.
- Knox, D. & Lucas, C. (2021). A dynamic model of speech for the social sciences. American Political Science Review, 115(2), 649-666.
- Russell, S. (2019). Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control. Viking.
- Christian, B. (2020). The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values. W. W. Norton & Company.
- Ananthaswamy, A. (2024). Why Machines Learn: The Elegant Math Behind Modern AI. Dutton.