June 18, 2017 - July 1, 2017 | Princeton University
Opening Dinner
9:00-9:15 Logistics (No livestream)
9:15-9:30 Introduction to computational social science slides, video
9:45-10:00 Introductions
10:45-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-12:00 Four areas of difficulty: informed consent, informational risk, privacy, and making decisions in the face of uncertainty slides, video
1:00-4:00 Group Exercise (No livestream) activity
4:00-5:30 Lecture by Michael Macy (No livestream)
6:00-7:30 Dinner & discussion
9:00-9:15 History of quantitative text analysis slides, video
9:15-9:30 Strengths and weakenesses of quantitative text analysis slides, video
10:00-10:15 Break
10:15-11:00 Topic models and Beyond (Brandon Stewart) slides, code, video
12:00-1:00 Lunch
1:00-4:00 Group Exercise (No livestream)
4:00-5:30 Lecture by Brandon Stewart video
Dinner & Discussion
9:30-10:00 Probability and non-probability sampling slides, video
10:00-10:15 Coffee break
10:15-10:45 Computer-administered interviews and wiki surveys slides, video
11:00-12:30 Begin group exercise (No livestream) activity
12:30-1:30 Lunch
1:30-3:45 Continue group exercise (No livestream)
3:45-4:00 Break
4:00-5:30 Lecture by Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon video
Dinner & Discussion
12:00-12:20 Presentation - Demo / Agent Based Models and Collective Intelligence, Joshua Becker (No live-stream)
12:20-12:40 Presentation - The Wisdom of the Dynamic Network, Abdullah Almaatouq (No live-stream)
12:40-1:00 Presentation - Is the Public Polarized? Ideal Point Estimation using Real-time Debate Reactions, Lisa Argyle (No live-stream)
1:20-1:40 Tutorial - Word2vec, Jeff Jacobs (No live-stream)
1:40-2:00 Tutorial - Dependency Parsing, Elliott Ash (No live-stream)
2:00-2:30 Tutorial - Multi-Wave Field Experiments Over Mechanical Turk, Ethan Porter (No live-stream)
4:00-5:30 Lecture by Winter Mason video
12:00-12:20 Presentation - Multiplayer game / Survey on the future of computational social science, Peter Krafft (No live-stream)
12:20-12:40 Presentation - Social network experiment using Mturk and bots, Hirokazu Shirado (No live-stream)
12:40-1:00 Presentation - Using MTurk to Gauge Opinion on Crime and Punishment, Adaner Usmani (No live-stream)
1:30-2:30 Tutorial - How to get started with Python, Charlotte Lloyd (No live-stream)
2:30-3:00 Tutorial - Git and Github, Rochelle Terman (No live-stream)
3:00-3:30 Tutorial - Pre-registration, Peter Krafft (No live-stream)
4:00-5:00 Discussion - Designing a new challenge, Vissého Adjiwanou and Matt Salganik (No live-stream)
6:00 Dinner Dicussion group - Teaching Computational Social Science
12:00-12:20 Presentation - An Overview of Interpretable Machine Learning, Tong Wang (No live-stream)
12:20-12:40 Presentation - O Interpretable Machine Learning, Where Art Thou?, Bo Cowgill (No live-stream)
12:40-1:00 Presentation - Planning Prompts Increase and Forecast Course Completion in Massive Open Online Courses, Michael Yeomans (No live-stream)
1:00-1:20 Presentation - Asking Sensitive Questions in Surveys, Antje Kirchner (No live-stream)
1:30-1:45 Tutorial - Open Review Toolkit, Matt Salganik (No live-stream)
1:45-2:30 Tutorial - How to get started with STM, Taylor Brown (No live-stream)
4:00-5:30 Lecture by Deborah Estrin video
6:00 Dinner Dicussion groups - (1) Creating Tools for Social Scientists, (2) Issues in Open Source Development and Collaboration, (3) Interpretable Machine Learning
The Cultural Roots of Islamophobia, Rochele Terman, Lisa Argyle, Ian Gray, and Matti Nelimarkka
Fragile Families- Expert and Lay Opinions, Allie Morgan, Kivan Polimis, Adaner Usmani, Ridhi Kashyap
Fragile Families- Data Processing, Antje Kirchner, Anna Filippova, Connor Gilroy
Fragile Families- Modeling Strategies, Mike Yeomans, Tong Wang
Long Term, Causal Evidence on Evictions (Bo Cowgill) and Getting off Facebook (with Ethan Porter)
In search of human nature- Evidence for multilevel in-group preference amongst MTurk workers, Abdullah Almaatouq and Peter Krafft
The Future of CSS, Reflecting on Friendship, and Modeling Big Decisions, Peter Krafft
Social Dynamics in Scientific Community Networks The Structure – Content Coevolution of Research on CRISPR, Hirokazu Shirado, Moritz Buchi, & Visseho Adjiwanou
Ngram2Vec- Constructing Variable-Length Phrase Spaces, Elliott Ash and Jeff Jacobs
Highways and Words, Anjali Bhatt and Molly Lewis
Can We Reduce Political Polarization Without Communication, Joshua Becker and Ethan Porter
Dinner or a Movie? The Discourse of Emotional Labor in the Market for Escort Services, Charlotte Lloyd and Elliott Ash
TBD, Kat Albrecht and Maria Rodriguez
Students depart
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