Boston

6:00 - 9:00 Welcome Dinner at Meadhall

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 Slides

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

12:15 - 12:30 Introduction to the group exercise Slides

12:30 - 1:30 Lunch (on site) and local speaker: Andrey Fradkin

1:30 - 2:30 Meetings with local speaker Andrey Fradkin

1:30 - 3:45 Group exercise Case study 1 Case study 2

3:45 - 4:00 Break

4:00 - 5:30 Guest speaker: Alondra Nelson (Livestream)

6:00 - 7:30 Dinner (on site) & local speaker: In Song Kim

9:00 - 9:15 Logistics

9:15 - 9:30 What is digital trace data? Slides

9:30 - 9:45 Strengths and weakness of digital trace data Slides, Annotated Code

9:45 - 10:15 Screen-Scraping Slides, Annotated Code

10:15 - 10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 - 11:00 Application Programming Interfaces Slides, Annotated Code

11:00 - 12:30 Building Apps and Bots for Social Science Research Slides, Annotated Code

12:30 - 1:30 Lunch (on site)

1:30 - 3:45 Group Exercise (Not open to public/No livestream)

3:45 - 4:00 Break

4:00 - 5:30 Guest speaker: Beth Noveck (Livestream)

6:00 - 7:30 Dinner & Discussion at Sulmona Restaurant

9:00 - 9:15 Logistics

9:15 - 9:30 History of quantitative text analysis Slides

9:30 - 9:45 Basic Text Analysis/GREP Slides, Annotated Code

9:45 - 10:00 Dictionary-Based Text Analysis Slides, Annotated Code

10:00 - 10:15 Coffee Break

10:15 - 11:15 Topic models/Structural Topic Models (Guest Lecture by Brandon Stewart Slides from Chris, Annotated Code from Chris Brandon’s slides

11:15 - 11:20 Break

11:20 - 12:30 Text Networks Slides, Annotated Code

12:30 - 1:30 Lunch (on site) and local speaker: Jinhua Zhao

1:30 - 1:45 Break

1:45 - 4:15 Group Exercise

4:15 - 4:30 Break

4:30 - 6:00 Guest Speaker: Jennifer Pan (recorded stream)

6:00 - 7:30 Dinner & Discussion

9:00 - 9:15 Logistics

9:15 - 9:35 Survey research in the digital age Slides

9:35 - 9:55 Probability and non-probability sampling Slides

9:55 - 10:15 Computer-administered interviews and wiki surveys Slides

10:15 - 10:35 Combining surveys and big data Slides

10:35 - 10:45 Coffee break

10:45 - 11:15 Group exercise introduction Slides

11:15 - 12:30 Begin group exercise Exercise, Optional datasets: Survey data, post-stratification data

12:30 - 1:30 Lunch (on site) and local speaker: Moshe Hoffman

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: Justin Grimmer (Livestream)

6:00 - 7:30 Dinner & Discussion

9:00 - 9:15 Logistics

9:15 - 9:45 Mass collaboration Slides

9:45 - 10:15 The Fragile Families Challenge Slides

10:15 - 10:30 Coffee break

10:30 - 11:30 Participating in the Fragile Families Challenge Activity Slides

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

12:30 - 1:30 Lunch (on site)

1:30 - 3:45 Fragile Families Challenge

3:45 - 4:00 Discussion of the Fragile Families Challenge

4:00 - 5:30 Guest speaker: Annie Liang (Livestream)

6:00 - 7:30 Dinner & Discussion

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

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

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

10:15 - 10:30 Coffee break

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

11:00 - 11:15 Break

11:15 - 12:15 High-throughput behavioral science using virtual labs by guest speaker Abdullah Almaatouq (SICSS 2017)

Afternoon off

9:00 - 9:15 Breakfast

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

12:30 - 1:30 Lunch (on site) and local speaker: Brooke Foucault Welles

4:30 - 5:30 local speaker: Abigail Jacobs

6:00 - 7:30 Dinner & Discussion at Za Cambridge

9:00 - Breakfast

12:30 - 1:30 Lunch (on site) and Guest Speaker: Chris Wiggins (Livestream)

4:30 - 5:30 local speaker: Alex Sandy Pentland

6:00 - 7:30 Dinner & Discussion at Meadhall

9:00 - Breakfast

12:30 - 1:30 Lunch (on site) and multi-site panel discuss about navigating the job market featuring Chris Bail, Matti Nelimarkka, Matt Salganik, and more

1:45 - 3:00 Participant flash talks

5:00 - 6:00 local speaker: Mohsen Mosleh

6:00 - 7:30 Dinner & Discussion

9:00 - Breakfast

12:30 - 1:30 Lunch (on site) and flash talks

2:00 - 4:00 Meetings with local speaker: Laura Nelson

4:30 - 5:30 local speaker: Laura Nelson

6:00 - 7:30 Dinner & Discussion at Za Cambridge

9:00 - Breakfast

1:30 - 5:15 Present group projects

5:30 - ? Closing dinner and Reception