Helsinki

June 17, 2018 - June 30, 2018

Schedule & Materials

Monday June 18, 2018 - Introduction and ethics
  • 9:30 - 11:30 To Tvärminne

  • 11:30 - 12:00 Getting organized

  • 12:00 - 13:00 Lunch

  • 13:00 - 14:00 Introductions

  • 14:00 - 15:30 Fishbow: What is Computational Social Science? (video part 1, video part 2)

  • 15:30 - 16:30 Ethics: Principles-based approach and European perspectives (slides, video part 1, video part 2)

  • 16:30 - 17:30 Dinner

  • 17:30 - 18:30 Live stream: Introduction to Computational Social Science

  • 18:30 - 19:30 Live Stream: Four areas of difficulty: informed consent, informational risk, privacy, and making decisions in the face of uncertainty

Tuesday June 19, 2018 - Automated data collection
  • 8:00 - 9:00 Breakfast

  • 9:00 - 11:00 Video recording: Duncan Watts

  • 11:00 - 12:00 What is data? (presentation, slides)

  • 12:00 - 13:00 Lunch

  • 13:00 - 14:30 Group exercise: Ethics

  • 14:30 - 15:00 Demo: Screen scraping

  • 15:00 - 15:30 Demo: Application programming interfaces

  • 15:30 - 16:00 Demo: Aps for Social Science Research

  • 16:00 - 16:30 Demo: Open data

  • 16:30 - 17:30 Dinner

  • 17:30 - 20:00 Group exercise: Data collection

Wednesday June 20, 2018 - Automated text analysis
  • 8:00 - 9:00 Breakfast

  • 9:00 - 9:30 Recap: What we learned of data collection

  • 9:30 - 11:00 Qualitative analysis (slides)

  • 11:00 - 12:00 Automated text analysis

  • 12:00 - 13:00 Lunch

  • 13:00 - 16:30 Group exercise: Automated text analysis

  • 16:30 - 17:30 Dinner

  • 18:00 - 20:00 Social programme: Sauna for gentlemen

  • 20:00 - 22:00 Social programme: Sauna for ladies

Thursday June 21, 2018 - Quantitaive analysis and ML
  • 8:00 - 9:00 Breakfast

  • 9:00 - 9:30 Introduction: machine learn techniques for quantitative data

  • 9:30 - 12:00 Group exercise: ML for quantitative analysis

  • 12:00 - 13:00 Lunch

  • 13:00 - 16:00 Group exercise: ML for quantitative analysis

  • 16:00 - 16:30 Live stream: Survey research in digital research

  • 16:30 - 17:00 Live stream: Probability and non-probability samples

  • 17:00 - 18:00 Live stream: Combining surveys and big data

  • 18:00 - 19:00 Dinner

Friday June 22, 2018 - Surveys
  • 8:00 - 9:00 Breakfast

  • 9:00 - 11:00 Video recording: David Lazer

  • 11:00 - 12:00 Group exercise: Surveys

  • 12:00 - 13:00 Lunch

  • 13:00 - 16:00 Group exercise: Surveys

  • 16:00 - 16:30 Live stream: Mass collaboration

  • 16:30 - 17:00 Live stream: Human computation

  • 17:00 - 18:00 Live stream: Distributed data collection

  • 18:00 - 19:00 Dinner

  • 20:00 - 22:00 Social programme: Sauna for gentlemen

  • 22:00 - 25:00 Social programme: Sauna for ladies

Saturday June 23, 2018 - Mass collaboration & Experiments
  • 8:00 - 9:00 Breakfast

  • 9:00 - 11:00 Video recording: Sendhil Mullainathan

  • 11:00 - 12:00 Group exercise: Mass collaboration

  • 12:00 - 13:00 Lunch

  • 13:00 - 17:00 Group exercise: Mass collaboration

  • 17:00 - 19:00 Social programme: Sauna for ladies

  • 19:00 - 21:00 Social programme: Sauna for gentlemen

Sunday June 24, 2018 - Alternative Midsummer Festival
  • 8:00 - 9:00 Breakfast

  • 10:00 - 12:00 Leaving Tvärminne

Monday June 25, 2018 - Working on group projects
  • 8:30 - 10:00 Setting up for the group work

  • 15:00 - 16:00 Visiting lecture: Veikko Eranti - Computational methods and social theory – stronger together (stream)

Tuesday June 26, 2018 - Working on group projects
  • 15:00 - 16:00 Visiting lecture: Minna Ruckenstein - Broken Data (video)

  • 18:30 - 22:00 Social programme: Visit to Sompasauna

Wednesday June 27, 2018 - Working on group projects
  • 8:30 - 10:00 Video recording: Kristian Lum

  • 18:30 - 22:00 Social programme: Visit to Suomenlinna

Thursday June 28, 2018 - Working on group projects
  • 18:30 - 22:00 Social programme: Futurice visit & meeting Momo

Friday June 29, 2018 - Presenting group projects
  • 10:00 - 15:30 Presenting group projects (video)

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