June 18, 2018 - June 22, 2018 | University of Washington
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
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
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
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
You can host a partner location of the Summer Institutes of Computational Social Science (SICSS) at your university, company, NGO, or government agency.