Silberman School of Social Work, Hunter College at the City University of New York

9:00-9:15 Introductions

9:15-9:30 Logistics

9:30-9:45 Introduction to computational social science

9:45-10:00 Why SICSS?

10:00-10:45 Ethics: Principles-based approach (Livestream)

10:45-11:00 Break

11:00-12:00 Four areas of difficulty: informed consent, informational risk, privacy, and making decisions in the face of uncertainty (Livestream)

12:00-1:00 Lunch

1:00-3:30 Introduction to R & Version Control (Hand-On excercises)

3:30-4:00 Wrap Up Discussion

9:00-9:15 What is digital trace data? (Livestream)

9:15-9:30 Strengths and weakness of digital trace data (Livestream)

9:30-10:00 Screen-Scraping (Livestream)

10:00-10:15 Break

10:15-11:00 Application Programming Interfaces (Livestream)

11:00-12:00 Apps for Social Science Research (Livestream)

12:00-1:00 Lunch

1:00-3:30 Intermediate R (Hand-On excercises)

3:30-4:00 Wrap Up Discussion

9:00-9:15 History of quantitative text analysis (Livestream)

9:15-9:30 Strengths and weakenesses of quantitative text analysis (Livestream)

9:30-9:45 Basic Text Analysis/GREP (Livestream)

9:45-10:00 Dictionary-Based Text Analysis (Livestream)

10:00-10:15 Break

10:15-11:00 Topic models and Beyond (Livestream)

11:00-12:00 Ngram Networks (Livestream)

12:00-1:00 Lunch

1:00-3:30 Intermediate R Part II (Hand-On excercises)

3:30-4:00 Wrap Up Discussion

9:00-9:15 Welcome and schedule

9:15-9:30 Survey research in the digital age (Livestream)

9:30-10:00 Probability and non-probability sampling (Livestream)

10:00-10:15 Break

10:45-11:00 Combining surveys and big data (Livestream)

11:00-12:00 Intermediate R Part III (Hand-On excercises)

12:00-1:00 Lunch

1:30-3:30 Continue with Intermediate R Part III

3:30-4:00 Wrap Up Discussion

9:00-9:10 Welcome and schedule

9:10-9:30 Mass collaboration (Livestream)

9:30-9:40 Human computation (Livestream)

9:40-9:50 Open call (Livestream)

9:50-10:00 Distributed data collection (Livestream)

10:00-10:15 Design advice (Livestream)

10:15-10:30 Break

10:30-11:30 Introduction to Fragile Families Challenge (Livestream)

11:30-12:30 Working on Fragile Families Challenge

12:30-1:00 Lunch

1:00-3:00 Fragile Families Challenge

3:00-3:30 Project Brainstorm

3:30-4:00 Wrap Up Discussion

9:00 - 9:15 Welcome and schedule

9:15 - 9:45 What, why, and which experiments?

9:45 - 10:15 Moving beyond simple experiments

10:15 - 10:30 Break

10:30 - 11:15 Four strategies for experiments

11:15 - 11:45 Zero variable cost data and musiclab

11:45 - 12:15 3 Rs

12:00-1:00 Lunch

1:00-3:30 Work on Group/Individual Projects (On-Site)

3:30-4:00 Wrap Up Discussion & Remaining Schedule

9:00 - 9:15 Welcome and schedule

9:15 - 11:15 Individual/Group Project Presentations

11:15 - 11:30 Break

11:30 - 12:00 Next Steps

12:00 - 1:30 Closing Lunch