WICSS-Tucson

January 3 to January 9, 2021 | University of Arizona | Virtual event

Schedule & Materials

All times are in Mountain Time

Sunday January 3, 2021 - Welcome Event

4:00 - 5:00 Meet-and-greet

Monday January 4, 2021 - Introduction and Ethics

10:00 - 11:00 Introduction to computational social science
11:00 - 12:00 The Sense of Privacy w/ Laura Brandimarte
12:00 - 12:30 Break
12:30 - 2:30 Ethics in CSS w/ Annie Boustead (materials)
2:30 - 3:30 Research roundtable

Tuesday January 5, 2021 - Surveys and Experiments

10:00 - 11:00 Random and non-random sampling w/ Samara Klar (materials)
11:00 - 12:00 Programming and administering surveys w/ Samara Klar (materials)
12:00 - 12:30 Break
12:30 - 1:30 Externally-valid experiments w/ Frank Gonzalez (materials)
1:30 - 2:30 Conjoint experiments w/ Frank Gonzalez (materials)
2:30 - 3:30 Research roundtable

Wednesday January 6, 2021 - Digital Traces: APIs and Web Scraping

10:00 - 11:00 Digital traces and construct validity w/ Yotam Shmargad (materials)
11:00 - 12:00 Social media APIs w/ Yotam Shmargad (materials)
12:00 - 12:30 Break
12:30 - 2:30 Scraping the web w/ Thomas Davidson
2:30 - 3:00 Break
3:00 - 4:00 KEYNOTE: Social structure and community detection w/ Ronald Breiger

Thursday January 7, 2021 - Social Networks and Agent-Based Models

10:00 - 11:00 Social network analysis w/ Yotam Shmargad (materials)
11:00 - 12:00 Snowball sampling w/ Yotam Shmargad (materials)
12:00 - 12:30 Break
12:30 - 2:30 Agent-based modeling w/ Thomas Davidson
2:30 - 3:00 Break
3:00 - 4:00 Social event

Friday January 8, 2021 - Machine Learning and Text Analysis

10:00 - 12:00 Natural language processing w/ Robert Henderson (materials)
12:00 - 12:30 Break
12:30 - 2:30 Event coding using NLP and ML w/ Javier Osorio (materials)
2:30 - 3:30 Research roundtable

Saturday January 9, 2021 - Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing

10:00 - 12:00 Learning systems in land-use change analysis w/ Fernando Sanchez (materials)
12:00 - 12:30 Break
12:30 - 1:30 Research roundtable
1:30 - 2:00 Concluding remarks

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.