SICSS-Paris [POSTPONED]

June 23rd to July 2nd, 2020 | ENSAE | Plateau de Saclay, France

Schedule & Materials

Tuesday June 23, 2020 - Introduction and Logistics - Please note, this is a provisional schedule.

Morning : Participants arrival
12:00 - 2:00 Opening Lunch & Logistics
2:00 - 4:00 What are Computational Social Sciences?
4:00 - 4:15 Coffee Break - Pause café
4:15 - 6:00 A quick recap about R (optional)

Wednesday June 24, 2020 - Collecting Digital Trace Data

Morning: How is the web written and how to collect data on it?
Afternoon: Group exercise
5:30 - 6:30 : Guest Speaker: to be announced

Thursday June 25, 2020 - Collecting Digital Trace Data

Morning: Structured data: Making the most of markup languages
Afternoon: Group exercise
5:30 - 6:30 : Guest Speaker - to be announced

Friday June 26, 2020 - Collecting Digital Trace Data

Morning: Automation & storage
Afternoon: Group exercise
5:30 - 6:30 : Guest Speaker - to be announced

Saturday June 27, 2020 - Text as data

Morning: Introduction to Text Analysis
Afternoon: Afternoon off

Sunday June 28, 2020 - Day off

Monday June 29, 2020 - Text as data

Morning: Unstructured data : using regular expressions
Afternoon: Group exercise
5:30 - 6:30 : Guest Speaker - to be announced

Tuesday June 30, 2020 - Machine Learning

Morning: Machine Learning for social sciences: issues and methods
Afternoon: Group exercise
5:30 - 6:30 : Guest Speaker - to be announced
From 7pm : closing dinner

Wednesday July 1, 2020 - Work on projects

Morning: work on projects
Afternoon: work on projects
5:30 - 6:30 : Guest Speaker - to be announced
From 7pm : closing dinner

Thursday July 2, 2020 - Work on projects

Morning: Perspectives and comments. Closing remarks
Lunch & departure

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.