June 16 - June 27, 2019 | Oxford University
Informal opening dinner (Junior Common Room, Nuffield College)
Intro to SICSS Oxford by Ridhi Kashyap
Opening remarks by Christiaan Monden, Head of Department of Sociology
Introductions by participants (Flashtalks)
Coffee break
Introductions by participants (Flashtalks)
Tales from previous SICSS by Francesco Rampazzo (University of Southampton)
Lunch (Nuffield College)
Introduction to Computational Social Science Livestream by Matt Salganik and Chris Bail
Tea break
Research Ethics: Principles-based approach Livestream by Matt Salganik
Dinner (Nuffield College)
Housekeeping announcements
Group exercise, Research Ethics
Case Study 1, Case Study 2
Coffee Break
Talk by Nick Ruktanonchai Livestream
‘Mapping human populations and mobility in low and middle income countries for malaria elimination’
Slides, Data
Lunch (Nuffield College)
Digital trace data by Ridhi Kashyap, Livestream
What is digital trace data? Pros and cons of digital trace data. Research designs involving digital data.
Slides
Tea break
Digital trace data by Ridhi Kashyap, Livestream
Tools and techniques for working with digital trace data. Challenges of ethics and access with digital traces.
Slides, Tutorial
Dinner and discussion (Nuffield College)
Housekeeping announcements
Group exercise on Digital Trace Data
Coffee Break
Talk by Mariarosaria Taddeo Livestream
‘Ethical challenges of AI’
Lunch (Nuffield College)
Computational Text Analysis by Taylor Brown, Livestream
History of text analysis, and sources of data in the modern age.
Slides
Tea break
Computational Text Analysis by Taylor Brown, Livestream
Three methods to large-scale text analysis–how they work and what they can(‘t) do.
Slides
Dinner (Nuffield College)
Housekeeping announcements
Group exercise on Automated text analysis
Coffee Break
Talk by Scott Hale Livestream
‘Demographic Inference and Representative Population Estimates from Multilingual Social Media Data’
Slides
Lunch (Nuffield College)
Survey research in the digital age, Livestream by Matt Salganik
Demographic Inference and Representative Population Estimates from Multilingual Social Media Data
Break
Unconference
Dinner and discussion (Nuffield College)
Housekeeping announcements
Workshop on non-probability surveys, by Roberto Cerina Livestream
Probabilistic linkage; Mixing census and big surveys; Multilevel Regression and Poststratification; ML and Bayesian approaches Material
Coffee Break
Exercise on non-probability surveys, by Roberto Cerina
Lunch (Nuffield College)
Workshop on Machine Learning, by Charles Rahal Livestream
General form of learning problems, conceptual differences between inference and prediction, supervised and unsupervised prediction, linear model selection and regularization, tree-based methods and SVMs, followed by two examples.
Materials
Tea break
Kaggle style prediction competition, by Charles Rahal Livestream
A Kaggle style prediction (classification) competition using healthcare data.
Winners announced, script/kernels shared
Talk by Neave O’Clery Livestream, without archive
‘Using data science to develop policy tools for local economic development’
Dinner and discussion (Nuffield College)
Housekeeping announcements
Workshop on Experiments, by Sonke Ehret Livestream
Basic concepts on experiments; Literature on experiments (scale and complexity; classifiers and treatment; bots and platforms); computational approaches to experiments
Coffee Break
Talk by Ray Duch Livestream
‘Advances in Computational and Experimental Social Sciences’
Slides
Lunch (Nuffield College)
Tutorial on Experiments
Tea Break
Tutorial on Experiments
Talk by Sonja Vogt
‘Eliciting Data in Challenging Intercultural Settings’
Housekeeping announcements
Group formation
Coffee Break
Talk by Pablo Barberà
‘Political polarization in the digital age’
Lunch (Nuffield College)
Groups work on project
Tea break
Groups work on project
Talk by Melinda Mills Livestream
‘The genetic data revolution: Potential and pitfalls’
Dinner and discussion with Daniela Duca (SAGE) (Fellows’ Dining Room, Nuffield College)
Housekeeping announcements
Groups work on project
Talk by David Cox Livestream
‘Statistical concepts: A framework for research’
Lunch (Nuffield College)
Groups work on project
Dinner and discussion (Nuffield College)
Housekeeping announcements
Groups work on project
Talk by Xiaowen Dong Livestream
Lunch (Nuffield College)
Groups work on project
Dinner and discussion (Nuffield College)
Groups finalise projects
Lunch (Nuffield College)
Groups presentations
Closing dinner (Dining Hall, Nuffield College)
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