Los Angeles

9:00 - 9:15 Local Logistics

9:15 - 9:45 Introduction to computational social science (Princeton Stream)

9:45 - 10:15 Why SICSS? (Princeton Stream)

10:15 - 10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 - 12:00 Supervised Machine Learning

12:00 - 1:00 Lunch

1:00 - 2:30 Guest speaker: Alondra Nelson (Princeton Stream)

2:30 - 2:45 Break

2:45 - 3:00 Introduction to the group exercise

3:00 - 5:00 Group exercise

9:00 - 9:15 Local Logistics

9:15 - 9:30 What is digital trace data? (Princeton Stream)

9:30 - 9:45 Strengths and weakness of digital trace data (Princeton Stream)

9:45 - 10:15 Screen-Scraping (Princeton Stream)

10:15 - 10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 - 11:00 Application Programming Interfaces (Princeton Stream)

11:00 - 12:30 Building Apps and Bots for Social Science Research (Princeton Stream)

12:30 - 1:30 Lunch

1:30 - 1:45 Introduction to the group exercise

1:45 - 3:45 Group exercise

3:45 - 4:00 Break

4:00 - 5:00 Guest Speaker: Tim Dennis

9:00 - 9:15 Local Logistics

9:15 - 9:30 History of quantitative text analysis (Local and Princeton Stream)

9:30 - 9:45 Basic Text Analysis/GREP (Local and Princeton Stream)

9:45 - 10:00 Dictionary-Based Text Analysis (Local and Princeton Stream)

10:00 - 10:15 Coffee Break

10:15 - 11:15 Topic models/Structural Topic Models (Local and Princeton Stream)

11:15 - 11:30 Text Networks (Local and Princeton Stream)

11:30 - 11:45 Introduction to group exercise

11:45 - 1:00 Lunch

1:00 - 2:15 Guest Speaker: Zachary Steinert-Threlkeld

2:15 - 2:30 Break

2:30 - 5:00 Group Exercise

9:00 - 9:30 Survey research in the digital age (Local and Princeton Stream)

9:30 - 10:05 Probability and non-probability sampling (Local and Princeton Stream)

10:05 - 10:15 Coffee break

10:15 - 10:40 Computer-administered interviews and wiki surveys (Princeton Stream)

10:40 - 11:05 Combining surveys and big data (Princeton Stream)

11:05 - 12:05 Guest Speaker: Jungseock Joo

12:05 - 1:00 Lunch

1:00 - 2:30 Guest speaker: Justin Grimmer (Princeton Stream)

2:30 - 4:45 Group exercise

4:45 - 5:00 Discuss activity and open-source data

9:15 - 10:30 Local logistics

9:15 - 10:30 Speed-dating and group formation for week 2 projects

10:30 - 10:45 Coffee break

10:45 - 11:00 Mini-conference opening and introduction

11:00 - 12:00 Guest Speaker: Erin Hartman

12:00 - 1:00 Lunch

1:00 - 2:00 Computational causal research workshop

2:00 - 3:15 Panel I: Digital Demography (Dennis Feehan and Ka-Yuet Liu)

3:15 - 3:30 Break

3:30 - 4:45 Panel II: Computational Causal Inference (Judea Pearl and Sam Pimentel)

4:45 - 5:00 Break

5:00 - 6:00 Reception

9:30 - 10:30 [Optional] Panel on book publishing: Meagan Levinson (Senior Editor, Princeton University Press), Eric Schwartz (Editoral Director, Columbia Univesity Press), and Chris Bail (Editor of the Oxford University Press Series in Computational Social Science) (Princeton Stream)

9:30 - 10:30 [Optional] Guest speaker: Chris Wiggins (Princeton Stream)

12:30 - 1:30 Lunch and participant flash talks

12:00 - 1:00 Lunch and participant flash talks

12:30 - 1:30 Lunch and participant flash talks

1:30 - 5:15 Present group projects