Silberman School of Social Work, Hunter College at the City University of New York

8:30 - 9:00 Welcome & Breakfast (Not open to public/No livestream)

9:00 - 9:25 Introductions (Not open to public/No livestream)

9:30 - 10:00 Introduction to Computational Social Science

10:00 - 10:30 Why SICSS?

10:30 - 10:45 Coffee Break

10:45 - 11:30 Ethics: Principles-based approach

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

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

12:30 -1:30 Lunch (Not open to public/No livestream)

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

3:45 - 4:00 Break

4:00 - 5:30 Guest speaker: Dr. Josh Raines

5:30 - 6:30 Refreshments and Discussion

8:30 - 9:00 Welcome, Breakfast & Logistics (Not open to public/No livestream)

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

9:30 - 9:45 Strengths and weakness of digital trace data

9:45 - 10:15 Screen-Scraping

10:15 - 10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 - 11:00 Application Programming Interfaces

11:00 - 12:30 Building Apps and Bots for Social Science Research

12:30 - 1:30 Lunch (Not open to public/No livestream)

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

3:45 - 4:00 Break

4:00 - 5:30 Guest speaker: Dr.Desmond Patton

5:30 - 6:30 Refreshments and Discussion

8:30 - 9:15 Welcome, Breakfast & Logistics (Not open to public/No livestream)

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

9:30 - 9:45 Basic Text Analysis/GREP

9:45 - 10:00 Dictionary-Based Text Analysis

10:00 - 10:15 Coffee Break

10:15 - 11:15 Topic models/Structural Topic Models

11:15 - 11:20 Break

11:20 - 12:30 Text Networks

12:30 - 1:30 Lunch (Not open to public/No livestream)

1:30 - 4:00 Group Exercise (Not open to public/No livestream)

4:00 - 5:30 Guest speaker: Streamed from Main Site

5:30 - 6:30 Refreshments and Discussion

8:30 - 9:15 Welcome, Breakfast & Logistics (Not open to public/No livestream)

9:15 - 9:45 Survey research in the digital age

9:45 - 10:15 Probability and non-probability sampling

10:15 - 10:30 Coffee break

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

11:00 - 11:30 Combining surveys and big data

11:30 - 12:00 Group exercise introduction

12:00 - 12:30 Begin group exercise

12:30 - 1:30 Lunch (Not open to public/No livestream)

1:30 - 3:15 Continue group exercise (Not open to public/No livestream)

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

3:45 - 4:00 Break

4:00 - 5:30 Guest speaker: Dr. Melanie Sage

5:30 - 6:30 Refreshments and Discussion

8:30 - 9:15 Welcome, Breakfast & Logistics (Not open to public/No livestream)

9:15 - 9:30 Mass collaboration

9:30 - 9:45 Human computation

9:45 - 10:00 Open call

10:00 - 10:15 Distributed data collection

10:15 - 10:30 Coffee break

10:30 - 11:30 Introduction to the Fragile Families Challenge

11:30 - 12:30 Working on the Fragile Families Challenge (Not open to public/No livestream)

12:30 - 1:30 Lunch (Not open to public/No livestream)

1:30 - 3:30 Fragile Families Challenge (Not open to public/No livestream)

3:30 - 3:45 Discussion of the Fragile Families Challenge (Not open to public/No livestream)

3:45 - 4:00 Break

4:00 - 5:30 Guest speaker: Stream from Main site

5:30 - 6:30 Refreshments and Discussion

8:30 - 9:15 Welcome, Breakfast & Logistics (Not open to public/No livestream)

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

9:30 - 9:45 Moving beyond simple experiments

9:45 - 10:15 Four strategies for experiments

10:15 - 10:30 Coffee break

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

11:00 - 11:15 Break

11:15 - 12:15 3 Rs

12:15 - 12:30 Logistics (Not open to public/No livestream)

12:30 -1:30 Lunch (Not open to public/No livestream)

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

4:00 - 5:30 Guest speaker: Dr. Richard Smith

5:30 - 6:30 Refreshments and Discussion

8:30 - 9:00 Welcome, Breakfast & Logistics (Not open to public/No livestream)

9:00 - 12:15 Work on Group Projects (Not open to public/No livestream)

12:30 -1:30 Lunch adn Flash Talks (Not open to public/No livestream)

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

4:00 - 5:30 Guest speaker: Dr. Lauri Goldkind

5:30 - 6:30 Refreshments and Discussion

8:30 - 9:00 Welcome, Breakfast & Logistics (Not open to public/No livestream)

9:00 - 12:15 Work on Group Projects (Not open to public/No livestream)

12:30 -1:30 Lunch and Flash Talks(Not open to public/No livestream)

1:30 - 4:00 Work on Group Projects (Not open to public/No livestream)

8:30 - 9:00 Welcome, Breakfast & Logistics (Not open to public/No livestream)

9:00 - 12:15 Work on Group Projects (Not open to public/No livestream)

12:30 -1:30 Lunch and Flash Talks (Not open to public/No livestream)

1:30 - 4:00 Work on Group Projects (Not open to public/No livestream)

8:30 - 9:00 Welcome, Breakfast & Logistics (Not open to public/No livestream)

9:00 - 12:15 Work on Group Projects (Not open to public/No livestream)

12:30 -1:00 Lunch (Not open to public/No livestream)

1:00 - 4:30 Present group projects (Not open to public/No livestream)

4:30 - 6:00 Closing Reception