June 14 to June 20, 2020 | Higher School of Economics | Moscow
Opening Dinner (Not open to public/No livestream)
11:30 - 11:45 Introductions, logistics (Not open to public/No livestream)
11:45 - 13:15 Guest Speaker
13:15 - 13:30 Coffee Break
13:30 - 15:00 Guest Speaker
15:00 - 16:30 Lunch
16:30 - 17:30 Flash-talks by organizers and participants (Not open to public/No livestream)
17:30 - 18:00 Introduction to computational social science (live from Duke)
18:00 - 18:30 Why SICSS? (live from Duke)
18.30 - 18:45 Coffee Break
18:45 - 19:30 Ethics: Principles-based approach (live from Duke)
19:30 - 20:15 Four areas of difficulty: informed consent, informational risk, privacy, and making decisions in the face of uncertainty (live from Duke)
11:30 - 11:45 Logistics (Not open to public/No livestream)
11:45 - 12:15 Introduction to the group exercise (Not open to public/No livestream)
12:15 - 13:30 Group exercise (Not open to public/No livestream)
13:30 - 13:45 Coffee break
13:45 - 15:00 Group exercise and discussion (Not open to public/No livestream
15:00 - 16:00 Lunch
16:00 - 17:00 Guest Speaker
17:15 - 17:30 What is digital trace data? (live from Duke)
17:30 - 17:45 Strengths and weakness of digital trace data (live from Duke)
17:45 - 18:15 Screen-Scraping (live from Duke)
18:15 - 18:30 Coffee Break
18:30 - 19:00 Application Programming Interfaces (live from Duke)
19:00 - 19:30 Building Apps and Bots for Social Science Research (live from Duke)
11:30 - 11:45 Logistics (Not open to public/No livestream)
11:45 - 12:00 Introduction to the group exercise (Not open to public/No livestream)
12:00 - 13:30 Begin group exercise (Not open to public/No livestream)
13:30 - 13:45 Coffee break
13:45 - 15:00 Continue group exercise (Not open to public/No livestream)
15:00 - 16:00 Lunch
16:00 - 17:00 Flash-talks by organizers and participants (Not open to public/No livestream)
17:15 - 17:30 History of quantitative text analysis (live from Duke)
17:30 - 17:45 Basic Text Analysis/GREP (live from Duke)
18:15 - 19:15 Topic models/Structural Topic Models (live from Duke)
19:15 - 19:30 Break
19:30 - 20:00 Dictionary-Based Text Analysis (live from Duke)
20:00 - 20:30 Text Networks (live from Duke)
11:30 - 11:45 Logistics (Not open to public/No livestream)
11:45 - 12:00 Introduction to the group exercise (Not open to public/No livestream)
12:00 - 13:30 Begin group exercise (Not open to public/No livestream)
13:30 - 13:45 Coffee break
13:45 - 15:00 Continue group exercise (Not open to public/No livestream)
15:00 - 16:00 Lunch
16:00 - 17:00 Guest Speaker
17:15 - 17:35 Survey research in the digital age (live from Duke)
17:35 - 17:55 Probability and non-probability sampling (live from Duke)
17:55 - 18:15 Computer-administered interviews and wiki surveys (live from Duke)
18:15 - 18:35 Combining surveys and big data (live from Duke)
18:35 - 19:15 Group exercise introduction (live from Duke)
19:15 - 20:00 Begin group exercise (Not open to public/No livestream)
11:30 - 11:45 Logistics (Not open to public/No livestream)
11:45 - 13:30 Continue group exercise (Not open to public/No livestream)
13:30 - 13:45 Coffee break
13:45 - 15:00 Continue group exercise, discuss activity and open-source data (Not open to public/No livestream)
15:00 - 16:00 Lunch
16:00 - 17:00 Flash-talks by organizers and participants (Not open to public/No livestream)
17:15 - 17:45 Mass collaboration (live from Duke)
17:45 - 18:15 The Fragile Families Challenge (live from Duke)
18:15 - 18:30 Coffee break
18:30 - 19:30 Participating in the Fragile Families Challenge Activity (live from Duke)
19:30 - 20:30 Working on the Fragile Families Challenge (Not open to public/No livestream)
11:30 - 11:45 Logistics (Not open to public/No livestream)
11:45 - 13:30 Fragile Families Challenge (Not open to public/No livestream)
13:30 - 13:45 Discussion of the Fragile Families Challenge (Not open to public/No livestream)
13:45 - 14:00 Break
14:00 - 15:30 Flash-talks by organizers and participants (Not open to public/No livestream)
15:30 - 17:15 Lunch
17:15 - 17:30 What, why, and which experiments? (live from Duke)
17:30 - 17:45 Moving beyond simple experiments (live from Duke)
17:45 - 18:15 Four strategies for making experiments happen (live from Duke)
18:15 - 18:30 Coffee break
18:30 - 19:00 Zero variable cost data and musiclab (live from Duke)
19:00 - 19:30 Evaluations (Not open to public/No livestream)
19:30 Closing dinner and Group Picture (Not open to public/No livestream)
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