Monterrey

Opening Dinner (Not open to public/No livestream)

8:00 - 8:15 Logistics (Not open to public/No livestream)

8:15 - 8:30 Introductions (Not open to public/No livestream)

8:30 - 9:00 Introduction to computational social science

9:00 - 9:30 Why SICSS?

9:30 - 9:45 Coffee Break

9:45 - 10:30 Ethics: Principles-based approach

10:30 - 11:15 Four areas of difficulty: informed consent, informational risk, privacy, and making decisions in the face of uncertainty

11:15 - 11:30 Introduction to the group exercise

11:30 - 12:30 Lunch (Not open to public/No livestream)

12:30 - 2:45 Group exercise (Not open to public/No livestream)

2:45 - 3:00 Break

3:00 - 4:30 Guest speaker: Alondra Nelson

8:00 - 8:15 Logistics (Not open to public/No livestream)

8:15 - 8:30 What is digital trace data?

8:30 - 8:45 Strengths and weakness of digital trace data

8:45 - 9:15 Screen-Scraping

9:15 - 9:30 Coffee Break

9:30 - 10:00 Application Programming Interfaces

10:00 - 11:30 Building Apps and Bots for Social Science Research

11:30 - 12:30 Lunch (Not open to public/No livestream)

12:30 - 2:45 Group Exercise (Not open to public/No livestream)

2:45 - 3:00 Break

3:00 - 4:30 Guest speaker: Beth Noveck

8:00 - 8:15 Logistics (Not open to public/No livestream)

8:15 - 8:30 History of quantitative text analysis

8:30 - 8:45 Basic Text Analysis/GREP

8:45 - 9:00 Dictionary-Based Text Analysis

9:00 - 9:15 Coffee Break

9:15 - 10:15 Topic models/Structural Topic Models

10:15 - 10:20 Break

10:20 - 11:30 Text Networks

11:30 - 1:00 Lunch and Guest Speaker: Jennifer Pan

1:00 - 1:15 Break

1:15 - 4:30 Group Exercise (Not open to public/No livestream)

8:00 - 8:15 Logistics (Not open to public/No livestream)

8:15 - 8:45 Survey research in the digital age

8:45 - 9:15 Probability and non-probability sampling

9:15 - 9:30 Coffee break

9:30 - 10:00 Computer-administered interviews and wiki surveys

10:00 - 10:30 Combining surveys and big data

10:30 - 11:00 Group exercise introduction

11:00 - 11:30 Begin group exercise

11:30 - 12:30 Lunch

12:30 - 2:15 Continue group exercise (Not open to public/No livestream)

2:15 - 2:45 Discuss activity and open-source data

2:45 - 3:00 Break

3:00 - 4:30 Guest speaker: Justin Grimmer

8:00 - 8:15 Logistics (Not open to public/No livestream)

8:15 - 8:30 Mass collaboration

8:30 - 8:45 Human computation

8:45 - 9:00 Open call

9:00 - 9:15 Distributed data collection

9:15 - 9:30 Coffee break

9:30 - 10:30 Introduction to the Fragile Families Challenge

10:30 - 11:30 Working on the Fragile Families Challenge (Not open to public/No livestream)

11:30 - 12:30 Lunch

12:30 - 2:30 Fragile Families Challenge (Not open to public/No livestream)

2:30 - 2:45 Discussion of the Fragile Families Challenge (Not open to public/No livestream)

2:45 - 3:00 Break

3:00 - 4:30 Guest speaker: Annie Liang

8:00 - 8:15 Logistics (Not open to public/No livestream)

8:15 - 8:30 What, why, and which experiments?

8:30 - 8:45 Moving beyond simple experiments

8:45 - 9:15 Four strategies for experiments

9:15 - 9:30 Coffee break

9:30 - 10:00 Zero variable cost data and musiclab

10:00 - 10:15 Break

10:15 - 11:15 High-throughput behavioral science using virtual labs by guest speaker Abdullah Almaatouq (SICSS 2017)

11:15 - 11:30 Logistics (Not open to public/No livestream)

11:30 - 12:30 Lunch (Not open to public/No livestream)

Afternoon off

9:00 - 9:15 Logistics (Not open to public/No livestream)

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

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

12:30 - 1:30 Lunch and Guest Speaker: Chris Wiggins

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

1:30 - 5:15 Present group projects (Not open to public/No livestream)

5:30 Closing dinner (Not open to public/No livestream)

Participants depart