Chicago

1:00-5:00 Welcome Reception and Research Speed Dating (Local Guest Speaker Rayid Ghani) (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)

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

8:00-4:30 Parallel with Main Site (Livestream) [Local guest speaker Ned Smith @ 3:00pm]

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8:00-4:30 Parallel with Main Site (Livestream)

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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

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