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Opening dinner

9:00 - 9:15 Logistics

9:15 - 9:30 Introductions

9:30 - 10:00 Introduction to computational social science Slides

10:00 - 10:30 Why SICSS? Slides

10:30 - 10:45 Coffee break

10:45 - 11:30 Ethics: principles-based approach Video, Slides

11:30 - 12:15 Four areas of difficulty: informed consent, informational risk, privacy, and making decisions in the face of uncertainty Video, Slides

12:15 - 12:30 Introduction to the group exercise Slides Case study 1 Case Study 2

12:30 - 1:30 Lunch

1:30 - 3:45 Group exercise

3:45 - 4:00 Break

4:00 - 5:30 Guest speaker: Andreas Jungherr Blog & Slides

9:00 - 9:15 Logistics

9:15 - 9:45 What is digital trace data? Slides

9:45 - 10:30 Screen-scraping Slides Code

10:30 - 10:45 Coffee break

10:45 - 11:45 Application Programming Interfaces Slides Code

11:45 - 12:30 Building apps and bots for social science research Slides Code

12:30 - 1:30 Lunch

1:30 - 4:15 Group exercise Slides

4:15 - 4:30 Break

4:30 - 5:30 Guest speaker: Deen Freelon (video from SICSS 2018)

09:00 - 09:15 Logistics

09:15 - 09:30 Network analysis: then and now Materials

09:30 - 10:00 The fundamentals of network analysis

10:00 - 10:30 Plotting networks

10:30 - 10:45 Coffee break

10:45 - 11:45 Node and network level measures

11:45 - 12:30 Exploring network properties

12:30 - 1:30 Lunch

1:30 - 3:45 Group exercise

3:45 - 4:00 Break

4:00 - 5:30 Guest speaker: Fariba Karimi Slides

9:00 - 9:15 Logistics

9:15 - 10:10 Basics of quantitative text analysis Materials for entire day

10:10 - 10:30 Dictionary-based text analysis

10:30 - 10:45 Coffee break

10:45 - 11:30 Classifiers

11:30 - 12:30 Structural topic models

12:30 - 1:30 Lunch

1:30 - 3:45 Group exercise

9:00 - 9:15 Logistics

9:15 - 9:45 Survey research in the digital age Video, Slides

9:45 - 10:15 Probability and non-probability sampling Video, Slides

10:15 - 10:30 Coffee break

10:30 - 11:00 Computer-administered interviews and wiki surveys Video, Slides

11:00 - 11:30 Combining surveys and big data Video, Slides

11:30 - 12:00 Group exercise introduction Video, Slides

12:00 - 12:30 Begin group exercise Exercise, Optional datasets: Survey data, post-stratification data (Not open to public/No livestream)

12:30 - 1:30 Lunch

1:30 - 3:15 Continue group exercise

3:15 - 3:45 Discuss activity and open-source data Slides

3:45 - 4:00 Break

4:00 - 5:30 Guest speaker: Ridhi Kashyap Slides

9:00 - 9:15 Logistics

9:15 - 9:30 What, why, and which experiments? Video, Slides

9:30 - 9:45 Moving beyond simple experiments Video, Slides

9:45 - 10:15 Four strategies for making experiments happen Video, Slides

10:15 - 10:30 Coffee break

10:30 - 11:00 Zero variable cost data and musiclab Video, Slides

11:00 - 11:15 Break

11:15 - 12:15 Guest speaker: Abdullah Almaatouqn (video from SICSS 2019) Video, Slides

12:15 - 12:30 Logistics

Afternoon off

9:00 - 9:15 Logistics

9:15 - 10:30 Speed-dating and group formation Slides

12:30 - 1:30 Lunch

1:30 - 3:00 Guest lecture: Martijn Schoonvelde Slides

12:30 - 1:30 Lunch

1:30 - 3:00 Guest lecture: Milena Tsvetkova Slides

12:30 - 1:30 Lunch

12:30 - 1:30 Lunch

6:00 - 7:30 Closing dinner

Participants depart