Seattle

June 18, 2018 - June 22, 2018 | University of Washington

Schedule & Materials

Monday June 18, 2018 - Introduction and Ethics
  • 9:00-9:15 Breakfast and logistics

  • 9:15-9:45 Local introduction

  • 9:45-10:15 Why SICSS? (stream on delay)

  • 10:15-11:00 Ethics: principles-based approach (stream on delay)

  • 11:00-12:00 Local guest speaker: Anna Lauren Hoffmann

  • 12:00-1:00 Lunch

  • 1:00-2:30 Guest speaker: Duncan Watts (Livestream)

  • 2:30-5:00 Group exercise

Tuesday June 19, 2018 - Collecting Digital Trace Data
  • 9:00 Breakfast

  • 9:15-9:30 Introduction to digital trace data

  • 9:30-10:00 Web-scraping

  • 10:00-10:15 Break

  • 10:15-11:00 Application Programming Interfaces

  • 11:00-12:00 Demographic data through APIs

  • 12:00-1:00 Lunch

  • 1:00-2:00 Building apps and bots for social science research (stream on delay)

  • 1:00-4:00 Group exercise

  • 4:00-5:00 Local guest speaker: Nina Cesare

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

  • 9:15-12:00 Lectures parallel with Main Site (stream on delay)

  • 12:00-1:00 Lunch

  • 1:00-2:00 Lectures parallel with Main Site (stream on delay)

  • 2:00-5:00 Group exercise

Thursday June 21, 2018 - Surveys
  • 9:00 Breakfast

  • 9:15-11:30 Lectures parallel with Main Site (stream on delay)

  • 11:30-12:00 Begin group exercise

  • 12:00-1:00 Lunch and group exercise

  • 1:00-2:30 Guest speaker: David Lazer (Livestream)

  • 2:30-4:00 Group exercise

  • 4:00-6:00 Joint happy hour with Data Science for Social Good

Friday June 22, 2018 - Mass Collaboration
  • 9:00 Breakfast

  • 9:15-11:00 Mass collaboration, human computation, and open calls (stream on delay)

  • 11:00-11:30 Introduction to Fragile Families Challenge

  • 11:30-12:00 Fragile Families Challenge

  • 12:00-1:00 Lunch

  • 1:00-2:30 Guest speaker: Sendhil Mullainathan (Livestream)

  • 1:00-3:00 Fragile Families Challenge (in parallel with speaker)

  • 3:00-5:00 Peer-led research presentations and tutorials

Monday June 25, 2018 - Optional group projects

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