SICSS-Los Angeles

June 15 to June 26, 2020 | UCLA | Virtual event

Schedule & Materials

All times are in Pacific Daylight Time

Saturday June 13, 2020

(PRE-SICSS) Watch Collecting Digital Trace Data
(PRE-SICSS) Watch An Introduction to Text Analysis
(PRE-SICSS) Watch Text Analysis Basics
(PRE-SICSS) Join Our Slack Channel (Check Email)
(PRE-SICSS) Add yourself to the Introduction Spereadsheet (Check Email)

Monday June 15, 2020 - Introduction to Digital Trace Data

10:00 - 10:15 Introduction to SICSS and the California Center For Population Research by Dr. Jennie Brand (Zoom)
10:15 - 11:25 Introductions (What is Computational Social Science) (In Zoom break-out rooms
10:25 - 10:45 Introductions (What is Computational Social Science) (In Zoom full group)
10:45 - 11:45 Lecture: Intro to Digital Trace Data and Group Exercise (In Zoom full group)
11:45 - 1:15 Break
1:15 - 2:45 Group Discussion + Exercise (In Zoom break-out rooms)
3:00 - 4:00 Guest Speaker: Bryor Snfjella) (In Zoom full group)
4:00 - 4:30 OPTIONAL: Open Office Hours (getting started with Slack, R, Q & A)

Tuesday June 16, 2020 - Introduction to Supervised Machine Learning

10:00 - 10:15 Outline the Day (Zoom)
10:15 - 11:00 Lecture: Supervised Machine Learning (In Zoom full group)
11:00 - 11:30 Small Group Discussions (In Zoom break-out room)
11:30 - 1:15 Break
1:30 - 3:00 Group Discussion + Exercise
3:00 - 3:45 Debrief

Wednesday June 17, 2020 - Introduction to Text Analysis and Unsupervised Machine Learning

(ADVANCE) Watch Dictionary-Based Text Analysis (Zoom)
10:00 - 10:15 Outline the Day (Zoom)
10:15 - 11:00 Lecture: Text Mining (In Zoom full group)
11:00 - 11:30 Small Group Discussions (In Zoom break-out room)
11:30 - 1:15 Break
1:30 - 3:00 Group Discussion + Exercise
3:00 - 4:00 Guest Speaker: Keith Chen (In Zoom full group)
4:00 - 4:30 OPTIONAL: Open Office Hours

Thursday June 18, 2020 - Introduction to Causal Inference

10:00 - 10:15 Outline the Day (Zoom)
10:15 - 11:00 Lecture: Causal Inference (In Zoom full group)
11:00 - 11:30 Small Group Discussions (In Zoom break-out room)
11:30 - 1:15 Break
1:30 - 3:00 Group Discussion + Exercise (In Zoom break-out room)
3:00 - 3:45 Guest Speaker: Natasha Quadlin (In Zoom full group)
3:45 - 4:00 Speaker Q & A

Friday June 19, 2020 - Ethical Research and Ethical AI

ADVANCE Watch Ethics Part 1 (Zoom)
ADVANCE Watch Ethics Part 2 (Zoom)
10:00 - 10:15 Outline the Day (Zoom)
10:15 - 11:15 Case Study (In Zoom break-out room)
11:15 - 12:00 Break
12:00-1:15 Panel: AI & Ethics by Sarah Brayne, Emily Dentone, and Alex Hanna (In Zoom full group)
1:15 - 2:00 Debrief and Week 2 Prep
2:00 - 4:00 Work On Projects

Monday June 22, 2020 - Research Projects and Festival

Festival Activities
10:00 - 12:00 Group Work Time (Zoom)
12:00 - 1:30 Break
1:30-3:30 Participant Flash Talks [Required Attendance/Optional Participation] (Zoom)

Tuesday June 23, 2020 - Research Projects and Festival

Festival Activities
10:00 - 12:00 Group Work Time (Zoom)
12:00 - 1:30 Break
1:30-3:30 Group Work Time (Zoom)
1:30-3:30 Office Hours [Required Twice] (Zoom)

Wednesday June 24, 2020 - Research Projects and Festival

Festival Activities
10:00 - 12:00 Group Work Time (Zoom)
12:00 - 1:30 Break
1:30-3:30 Group Work Time (Zoom)
1:30-3:30 Office Hours [Required Twice] (Zoom)

Thursday June 25, 2020 - Research Projects and Festival

Festival Activities
10:00 - 12:00 Group Work Time (Zoom)
12:00 - 1:30 Break
1:30-3:30 Group Work Time (Zoom)
1:30-3:30 Office Hours [Required Twice] (Zoom)

Friday June 26, 2020 - Research Projects and Festival

Festival Activities
10:00 - 12:00 Group Work Time (Zoom)
12:00 - 1:30 Break
1:30-3:30 Group Work Time (Zoom)
1:30-3:30 Office Hours [Required Twice] (Zoom)

Host a Location

You can host a partner location of the Summer Institutes of Computational Social Science (SICSS) at your university, company, NGO, or government agency.