June 15 to June 26, 2020 | Rutgers University | Virtual event
Welcome and Introductions
Break
Activity on Ethics
Debrief
Activity on Digital Trace Data
Group Lunch Discussions
Applications with Geographic Data (Michael Kenwick)
Activity on Digital Trace Data
Activity using Text as Data
Break
Group Lunch Discussions
Classification and Bias: The Case of Hate Speech Detection Algorithms (Thomas Davidson)
Break
Debrief on Text as Data Activity
Lessons on Machine Learning
Group Lunch Discussions
Activity on Surveys in the Ditigal Age
Polarization and Nationalization of America’s State Parties: An Analysis of State Party Platforms, 1918-2017 (Daniel Hopkins, joint work with Eric Schickler)
Logistics
Lessons on Network Analysis (with Katherine Ognyanova)
Break
Activity using Network Analysis
(Optional) Tutorial on ggplot with Carrie
Activity on Digital Experiments
Convenience Samples in Experimental Research (Yanna Krupnikov)
Finalize Groups for Research Projects
Debrief on group projects
Work on Group Projects
(Optional) Tutorial on MTurk with Analia
Slack a project plan
Why’s the Power Out? Organizational Responsiveness to Everyday Requests, Questions, and Complaints (Simone Zhang)
Work on Group Projects
(Encouraged) Panel discussion on diversity in computational social science. Register here
Work on Group Projects
(Optional) Tutorial on Loops (30-40 minutes)
(Optional) Tutorial- Intro to Screen Scraping (targeted toward beginners)
Slack an update on your group project (e.g., 1 paragraph)
How to Survey Political Elites (Adam Thal)
Work on Group Projects
Slack an update on your group project (e.g., 1 paragraph)
(Optional) Lunch Discussion with Guest Speaker (Arvind Narayanan)
(Encouraged) What Can the SICSS Community Do to Recognize and Eradicate Anti-Black Racism in Computational Social Science? Register here
Work on Group Projects
Presentations
Closing Session
You can host a partner location of the Summer Institutes of Computational Social Science (SICSS) at your university, company, NGO, or government agency.