SICSS-NYU [POSTPONED]

June 15 to June 20, 2020 | New York University | New York, New York

Schedule & Materials

Monday June 15, 2020 - Introduction and Ethics (NYU Sociology Department)

9:00am
Intro to SICSS NYU by Carly Knight and Taylor Brown
9:30am
Livestream from Duke, What is CSS and Research Ethics
12:30pm
Lunch and flashtalks
2:30pm
Break
2:45pm
Group exercises
4:00pm
Guest speaker (TBD)

Tuesday June 16, 2020 - Collecting Digital Trace Data (NYU Sociology Department)

9:00am
Housekeeping announcements
9:15am
Digital trace data by Taylor Brown
12:30pm
Lunch
1:30pm
Group Exercises
3:45pm
Break
4:00pm
Guest speaker (TBD)

Wednesday June 17, 2020 - Computational Text Analysis (NYU Sociology Department)

9:00am
Housekeeping announcements
9:15am
Computational Text Analysis by Carly Knight
12:30pm
Lunch
1:30pm
Group Exercises
3:45pm
Break
4:00pm
Guest speaker (TBD)

Thursday June 18, 2020 - Surveys in the Digital Age (NYU Sociology Department)

9:00am
Housekeeping announcements
9:15am
Survey research in the digital age, Livestream by Matt Salganik
Demographic Inference and Representative Population Estimates from Multilingual Social Media Data
12:30pm
Lunch
1:30pm
Group Exercises
3:45pm
Break
4:00pm
Guest speaker (TBD)

Friday June 19, 2020 - Machine Learning (NYU Sociology Department)

9:00am
Housekeeping announcements
9:15am
Machine learning in Social Science
12:30pm
Lunch
1:30pm
Group Exercises
3:45pm
Break
4:00pm
Guest speaker (TBD)
6:00pm
Closing dinner

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