Chicago

June 17, 2019 - June 28, 2019 | Chicago

Schedule & Materials

Monday June 17, 2019 - Introduction and Ethics

  • 8:00 AM - 8:15 AM: Logistics (No Live Stream)

  • 8:15 AM - 8:30 AM: Introductions (No Live Stream)

  • 8:30 AM - 9:00 AM: Introduction to Computational Social Science Slides (Princeton Live Stream)

  • 9:00 AM - 9:30 AM: Why SICSS? Slides (Princeton Live Stream)

  • 9:30 AM - 9:45 AM: Coffee Break (No Live Stream)

  • 9:45 AM - 10:30 AM: Ethics: Principles-Based Approach Slides (Princeton Live Stream)

  • 10:30 AM - 11:15 AM: Four Areas of Difficulty Slides (Princeton Live Stream)

  • 11:15 AM - 11:30 AM: Introduction to Group Exercise Slides (Princeton Live Stream)

  • 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM: Guest Speaker: Aaron Shaw Link to video (Chicago Live Stream)

  • 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM: Lunch (No Live Stream)

  • 1:30 PM - 2:45 PM: Group Exercise Case study 1 Case study 2 (No Live Stream)

  • 2:45 PM - 3:00 PM: Break (No Live Stream)

  • 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM: Guest Speaker: Alondra Nelson (Princeton Live Stream)

Tuesday June 18, 2019 - Collecting Digital Trace Data

  • 8:00 AM - 8:15 AM: Logistics (No Live Stream)

  • 8:15 AM - 8:30 AM: What is Digital Trace Data? Slides (Princeton Live Stream)

  • 8:30 AM - 8:45 AM: Strengths and Weaknesses of Digital Trace Data Slides, Annotated Code (Princeton Live Stream)

  • 8:45 AM - 9:15 AM: Screen-Scraping Slides, Annotated Code (Princeton Live Stream)

  • 9:15 AM - 9:30 AM: Coffee Break (No Live Stream)

  • 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM: APIs Slides, Annotated Code (Princeton Live Stream)

  • 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM: Building Apps & Bots Slides, Annotated Code (Princeton Live Stream)

  • 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM: Guest Speaker: Sharon Meraz Link to video (Chicago Live Stream)

  • 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM: Lunch (No Live Stream)

  • 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM: Group Exercise (No Live Stream)

  • 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM: Guest Speaker: Beth Noveck (Princeton Live Stream)

Wednesday June 19, 2019 - Automated Text Analysis

  • 8:00 AM - 8:15 AM: Logistics (No Live Stream)

  • 8:15 AM - 8:30 AM: History of Quantitative Text Analysis Slides (Princeton Live Stream)

  • 8:30 AM - 8:45 AM: Basic Text Analysis/GREP Slides, Annotated Code (Princeton Live Stream)

  • 8:45 AM - 9:00 AM: Dictionary-Based Text Analysis Slides, Annotated Code (Princeton Live Stream)

  • 9:00 AM - 9:15 AM: Coffee Break (No Live Stream)

  • 9:15 AM - 10:15 AM: Topic Models/Structural Topic Models Slides from Chris, Annotated Code from Chris (Princeton Live Stream)

  • 10:15 AM - 10:20 AM: Break (No Live Stream)

  • 10:20 AM - 11:30 AM: Text Networks Slides, Annotated Code (Princeton Live Stream)

  • 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM: Lunch and Guest Speaker: Jennifer Pan (Princeton Live Stream)

  • 12:30 PM - 3:00 PM: Group Exercise (No Live Stream)

  • 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM: Chicago Guest Speaker: Maira Khwaja Link to video (Chicago Live Stream)

Thursday June 20, 2019 - Surveys in the Digital Age

  • 8:00 AM - 8:15 AM: Logistics (No Live Stream)

  • 8:15 AM - 8:35 AM: Survey research in the digital age Slides (Princeton Live Stream)

  • 8:35 AM - 8:55 AM: Probability and non-probability sampling Slides (Princeton Live Stream)

  • 8:55 AM - 9:15 AM: Computer-administered interviews and wiki surveys Slides (Princeton Live Stream)

  • 9:15 AM - 9:35 AM: Combining surveys and big data Slides (Princeton Live Stream)

  • 9:35 AM - 9:45 AM: Coffee Break (No Live Stream)

  • 9:45 AM - 10:15 AM: Group exercise introduction Slides (Princeton Live Stream)

  • 10:15 AM - 11:30 AM: Begin Group Exercise (No Live Stream)

  • 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM: Chicago Guest Speaker Rochelle Terman Slides Link to video (Chicago Live Stream)

  • 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM: Lunch (No Live Stream)

  • 1:30 PM - 2:15 PM: Continue Group Exercise (No Live Stream)

  • 2:15 PM - 2:45 PM: Discuss activity and open-source data Slides (Princeton Live Stream)

  • 2:45 PM - 3:00 PM: Break (No Live Stream)

  • 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM: Guest Speaker: Justin Grimmer (Princeton Live Stream)

Friday June 21, 2019 - Modeling & Experiments

  • 8:00 AM - 8:30 AM: Logistics (No Live Stream)

  • 8:30 AM - 11:30 AM: Modeling & Experiments w/ Josh Becker Slides (No Live Stream)

  • 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM: Lunch (No Live Stream)

  • 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM: Group Formation for Second Week (No Live Stream)

  • 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM: Andy Papachristos talk Link to video (Chicago Live Stream)

  • 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM: Group Formation for Second Week (No Live Stream)

  • 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM: Guest Speaker: Annie Liang (Princeton Live Stream)

Saturday June 22, 2019 - Day off
Sunday June 23, 2019 - Day off
Monday June 24, 2019 - Work on group projects
Tuesday June 25, 2019 - Work on group projects
Wednesday June 26, 2019 - Work on group projects

  • 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM: Panel: Navigating the Computational Social Science Job Market

Thursday June 27, 2019 - Work on group projects
Friday June 28, 2019 - Present group projects

  • 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM: Machine Learning Talk (Optional)

  • 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM: Lunch and flash talks (No Live Stream)

  • 1:30 - 4:30 PM: Present group projects (Not open to public/ No livestream)

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