June 17, 2018 - June 30, 2018
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
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
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
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
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
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
8:00 - 9:00 Breakfast
10:00 - 12:00 Leaving Tvärminne
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)
15:00 - 16:00 Visiting lecture: Minna Ruckenstein - Broken Data (video)
18:30 - 22:00 Social programme: Visit to Sompasauna
8:30 - 10:00 Video recording: Kristian Lum
18:30 - 22:00 Social programme: Visit to Suomenlinna
18:30 - 22:00 Social programme: Futurice visit & meeting Momo
10:00 - 15:30 Presenting group projects (video)
You can host a partner location of the Summer Institutes of Computational Social Science (SICSS) at your university, company, NGO, or government agency.