Chicago

June 17, 2018 - June 30, 2018 | University of Chicago

Schedule & Materials

Sunday June 17, 2018
  • 1:00-5:00 Welcome Reception and Research Speed Dating (Local Guest Speaker Rayid Ghani) (Room 2110)

Monday June 18, 2018 - Introduction and Ethics (Room 2110)
  • 8:30-9:00 Breakfast [On Livestream: Introduction to computational social science] slides

  • 9:00-9:30 Why SICSS? slides

  • 9:30-9:45 Coffee Break

  • 9:45-10:30 Ethics: Principles-based approach (Livestream) slides

  • 10:30-11:15 Four areas of difficulty (Livestream) slides

  • 11:15-12:15 Guest Speaker: Alex Engler (Local)

  • 12:15-3:00 Lunch and Group Exercise case study 1, case study 2

  • 3:00-4:30 Guest Speaker: Duncan Watts (Livestream)

Tuesday June 19, 2018 - Collecting Digital Trace Data (Room 2110)
  • 8:30-9:00 Breakfast

  • 9:00-9:15 What is digital trace data? slides

  • 9:15-9:30 Screen Scraping slides, annotated code

  • 9:30-10:00 Application Programming Interfaces (Livestream) slides, annotated code

  • 10:00-11:00 Building Apps and Bots for Social Science Research (Livestream) slides, annotated code

  • 11:00-12:00 Guest Speaker: Sheena Erete (Local)

  • 11:30-3:00 Lunch and Group Exercise description of exercise

  • 3:00-4:30 Guest Speaker: Jim Wilson (Livestream)

  • 4:30-5:30 Group Excercise Continued

Wednesday June 20, 2018 - Automated text analysis (Room 2110)
Thursday June 21, 2018 - Surveys (Room 2110)
Friday June 22, 2018 - Computational Models and Experiments (Room 2110)
  • 8:30-9:00 Breakfast

  • 9:00-9:15 Logistics

  • 9:15-9:30 Why Experiments?

  • 9:30-9:45 Generating theories using formal models

  • 9:45-10:00 Web experiments using free and open source platforms

  • 10:00-10:15 Coffee break

  • 10:15-11:00 Moving beyind simple experiments (2017 Livestream Video)

  • 11:00-11:30 Four strategies for experiments (2017 Livestream Video)

  • 11:30-12:00 Introduction to Emprica.ly

  • 12:00-12:15 Introduction to Ground Truth / Red Team Challenge

  • 12:15-12:30 Introduction to Fragile Families Challenge

  • 12:30-3:30 Fragile Families Challenge

  • 3:30-5:00 Plan group projects

Saturday June 23, 2018 - Work on group projects (On-site optional - Room 5134, 5164, 5424, 5460)
Sunday June 24, 2018 - Day off
Monday June 25, 2018 - Work on group projects (On-site optional - Room 5326, 5460, 5164, 4450)
Tuesday June 26, 2018 - Work on group projects (On-site optional - Room 5460, 5326, 5164, 4450)
Wednesday June 27, 2018 - Work on group projects (On-site optional - Room 5460, 5326, 4450, 5164)
Thursday June 28, 2018 - Work on group projects (On-site optional - Room 5326, 5460, 5164, 4450)
Friday June 29, 2018 - Present group Projects (Room 5110)
  • 8:30-9:00 Breakfast

  • 9am-10am Work on Projects

  • 10:00-11:00 Guest Speaker

  • 11:00-1:00 Lunch and Finish Projects

  • 1:00-4:30 Present Projects

  • 4:30-7:30 Closing Reception

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