SICSS-Howard/Mathematica

10:00 - 11:45 Welcome, Praxis to Power Day 1 Introduction and logistics (Zoom) (video)

11:45 - 12:00 Break

12:00 - 1:00 “Personal Experiences of African Americans in the Academy” - Faculty Roundtable (Zoom) (video)

• Terri Adams-Fuller, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, and Interim Director, NOAA Cooperative Science Center for Atmospheric Sciences & Meteorology, Howard University
• Britany Gatewood, Ph.D., Adjunct Lecturer, Department of Sociology, Georgetown University
• Brandon Hogan, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Howard University
• Bahiyyah Muhammad, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Howard University

1:00 - 1:15 Break

1:15 - 1:45 “Choosing Self-Care in a Hostile World” (Zoom) (video) (handout)

• Meckell Milburn, MA, NBC-HWC, CWP, Revolutionary Healing

1:45 - 2:00 Break

2:00 - 5:00 “Making Computational Methods Accessible: R big picture (tidyverse) + data wrangling” (Zoom) (video) (Workshop materials) (article)

• Jae Yeon Kim, Ph.D., Assistant Research Scholar, SNF Agora Institute, Johns Hopkins University

10:00 - 11:00 Praxis to Power Day 2 Introduction and logistics (Zoom) (you have received the link over email) (video)

11:00 - 2:00 Open Office Hours, or SICSS-Howard/Mathematica Exclusive Content Review (on your own), or Pre-Arrival Material Review (on your own)

Open Office Hours (Zoom)

Review Pre-arrival materials

• Bootcamp
• Day 1: Introduction and Ethics, Day 2: Collecting Digital Trace Data, Day 3: Automated Text Analysis, Day 4: Surveys in the Digital Age, Day 5: Mass collaboration and machine learning, & OPTIONAL Day 6: Experiments
• Bit by Bit by Matt Salganik (textbook) / (video)

Get to know the SICSS & SICSS-Howard/Mathematica 2021 Inaugural Planning Team

• SICSS at Age 5: An Interview with Co-Founders Chris Bail and Matt Salganik for SICSS-Howard/Mathematica 2021 (video)
• Terri Adams, Ph.D., Faculty Co-Sponsor & Professor, Department of Sociology and Criminology, and Interim Director, NOAA Cooperative Science Center for Atmospheric Sciences & Meteorology at Howard University (video)
• Bahiyyah Muhammad, Ph.D., Faculty Co-Sponsor & Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Criminology, Howard University (video)
• Calvin Hadley, Event Co-Sponsor & Senior Advisor for Strategic Initiatives, Office of the President, Howard University (video)
• Akira Bell, Event Co-Sponsor & Senior Vice President; Chief Information Officer, Mathematica (video)
• Naniette H. Coleman, Lead Organizer & SICSS-Princeton 2019 Alumna, PhD Candidate Sociology, UC Berkeley (website)

Changing the Game

• Reimagining Social Institutions: Higher Education, an SSRC and SAGE publishing panel moderated by Alondra Nelson, Ph.D. (video)
• Black in AI, board member panel (video)
• Discussion on Diversity in Computational Social Science, SICSS Alumni Festival 2020 (video)
• Uncovering New Keys to Countering Anti-Black Racism and Inequity Using Computational Social Science, SAGE Ocean blog

2:00 - 5:00 “Making Computational Methods Accessible: data visualization and teaching CSS” (Zoom) (video) (Workshop materials) (article)

• Jae Yeon Kim, Ph.D., Assistant Research Scholar, SNF Agora Institute, Johns Hopkins University

5:00 - 5:15 Break

5:15 - 6:15 SICSS-Howard/Mathematica Kick-off and Opening Plenary and Q&A: President Wayne A.I. Frederick, Howard University (Zoom) (video)

Day 1: Pre-arrival videos & corresponding slides (Takeaway Sheet)

9:00 - 10:00 R and Python Office hours with Mathematica TAs (as needed) (Zoom)

10:00 - 10:30 Institute Introduction and logistics (Zoom) (video)

10:30 - 11:30 Small group discussions Lesson plan (participants) (Zoom) (video)

11:30 - 12:00 Break

12:00 - 1:00 “Getting the most out of your SICSS experience” - Roundtable discussion with SICSS alums of color (Zoom) (video) OR R and Python Office hours with Mathematica TAs (as needed) (Zoom)

• Jae Yeon Kim (SICSS-Princeton 2019, organizer of SICSS-Bay Area 2020)
• Zanele Munyikwa (SICSS-Duke 2018)
• Demetrius Murphy (SICSS-Duke 2020)
• Malebo Sephodi (SICSS-Stellenbosch 2020)
• Naniette Coleman (SICSS-Princeton 2019, organizer of SICSS-Howard/Mathematica 2021)

1:00 - 1:30 Break

1:30 - 1:45 Introduction to the group exercise Lesson plan (participants); Lesson plan (instructors) (Zoom) (video)

1:45 - 2:45 Small group discussion of case study (Zoom)

2:45 - 3:15 Whole group debrief about case study (Zoom) (video)

3:15 - 3:45 Debrief and logistics (Zoom) (see video above)

3:45 - 4:00 Apply for data access for Fragile Families Challenge activity if you haven’t already

Day 2: Pre-arrival videos, corresponding slides, & annotated code (Takeaway Sheet)

9:00 - 10:00 R and Python Office hours with Mathematica TAs (as needed) (Zoom)

10:00 - 10:15 Logistics and introduction to group exercise (Zoom) (video)

10:15 - 11:30 Identify a Research Question with Digital Trace Data (Zoom) OR Content-specific Office hours with Mathematica TAs (as needed) (Zoom)

11:30 - 12:00 Break

12:00 - 1:00 Bite-Sized Lunchtime Talk: Wiki Education (encouraged) (Zoom) (video) (Q&A) (slides) OR R, Python, and STATA Office hours with Mathematica TAs (as needed) (Zoom)

1:00 - 1:15 Break

1:15 - 2:30 Develop a Sampling Frame (Zoom) OR Content-specific Office hours with Mathematica TAs (as needed) (Zoom)

2:30 - 3:30 Populate the Sampling Frame with Screen-Scraping (Zoom)

3:30 - 3:45 Debrief and logistics (Zoom) (video)

Day 3: Pre-arrival videos, corresponding slides, & annotated code (Takeaway Sheet)

9:00 - 10:00 R and Python Office hours with Mathematica TAs (as needed) (Zoom)

10:00 - 10:15 Logistics and introduction to group exercise (Zoom) (video)

10:15 - 11:30 Extract Features from Trump Tweets (Zoom) OR Content-specific Office hours with Mathematica TAs (as needed) (Zoom)

11:30 - 12:00 Break

12:00 - 1:00 Bite-Sized Lunchtime Talk: The Data Nutrition Project (encouraged) (Zoom) (video) (Q&A) (slides) OR R, Python, and STATA Office hours with Mathematica TAs (as needed) (Zoom)

1:00 - 1:15 Break

1:15 - 3:30 Predict Features of Tweets associated with Retweets and Produce Visualization (Zoom) OR Content-specific Office hours with Mathematica TAs (as needed) (Zoom)

3:30 - 3:45 Debrief and logistics (Zoom) (video)

Day 4: Pre-arrival videos & corresponding slides (Takeaway Sheet)

9:00 - 10:00 R, Python, and STATA Office hours with Mathematica TAs (as needed) (Zoom)

10:00 - 10:15 Logistics (Zoom) (video)

10:15 - 10:30 Introduction to the group exercise, Lesson plan (participants); Lesson plan (instructors) (Zoom) (video)

10:30 - 11:30 Morning group exercise (Zoom) OR Content-specific Office hours with Mathematica TAs (as needed) (Zoom)

11:30 - 12:00 Break

12:00 - 1:00 Bite-Sized Lunchtime Talk: The California Policy Lab (encouraged) (Zoom) (video and Q&A not available) (slides) OR R, Python, and STATA Office hours with Mathematica TAs (as needed) (Zoom)

1:00 - 1:15 Break

1:15 - 3:00 Afternoon group exercise (Zoom) OR Content-specific Office hours with Mathematica TAs (as needed) (Zoom)

3:00 - 3:15 Break

3:15 - 3:30 Whole group debrief about group exercise (Zoom) (video)

3:30 - 3:45 Debrief and logistics (Zoom) (see above video)

Day 5: Pre-arrival videos & corresponding slides (Takeaway Sheet)

9:00 - 10:00 R, Python, and STATA Office hours with Mathematica TAs (as needed) (Zoom) (You have received the Zoom link for today over email and Slack)

10:00 - 10:15 Logistics (Zoom) (video)

10:15 - 10:30 Introduction to the group exercise Video Slides (Zoom) (video)

10:30 - 11:30 Participate in the Fragile Families Challenge activity Lesson plan (participants); Lesson plan (instructors) (Zoom) OR Content-specific Office hours with Mathematica TAs (as needed) (Zoom)

11:30 - 12:00 Break

12:00 - 1:00 Bite-Sized Lunchtime Talk: FactSpace West Africa and FakeNetAI (encouraged) (Zoom) (video) (Q&A) (slides) OR R and Python Office hours with Mathematica TAs (as needed) (Zoom)

1:00 - 1:15 Break

1:15 - 3:00 Continue participating in the Fragile Families Challenge activity (Zoom) OR Content-specific Office hours with Mathematica TAs (as needed) (Zoom)

3:00 - 3:15 Break

3:15 - 3:30 Whole group debrief about group exercise (Zoom) (video)

3:30 - 3:45 Debrief and logistics (Zoom) (see above video)

3:45 - 4:00 Delete the Fragile Families data from your computer

4:00 - 5:00 Juneteenth Celebration with DJ ROC (Zoom)

Mathematica TAs are available via email for consultation (please see Slack)

10:00 - 10:15 Logistics and Research Speed Dating Logistics (Zoom) (video) (slides)

10:15 - 10:45 Break

10:45 - 11:45 Round 1-6 (ten minutes each) (Zoom)

11:45 - 12:00 Break

12:00 - 1:00 Bite-Sized Lunchtime Talk: Black in AI (encouraged) (Zoom) (video) (Q&A)

1:00 - 2:30 Break (short video before starting)

2:30 - 3:30 Round 7-12 (ten minutes each) (Zoom)

3:30 - 3:45 Break

3:45 - 4:00 Group debrief (join research teams) (Zoom) (video)

4:00 - 5:30 Ruha Benjamin, Ph.D., Associate Professor of African American Studies, Princeton University - live session to include Q&A and office hours (Zoom) (video, Q&A, and slides not available)

Mathematica TAs are available via email for consultation (please see Slack)

10:00 - 10:15 Logistics (Zoom) (video)

10:15 - 12:00 Work on group projects

12:00 - 1:00 Bite-Sized Lunchtime Talk: The University of California’s Publisher Negotiation Team (encouraged) (Zoom) (video) (Q&A) (slides)

1:00 - 4:00 Work on group projects

4:00 - 5:30 Chris Wheat, Ph.D., Co-President, JP Morgan Chase Institute - live session to include Q&A and office hours (Zoom) (video) (Q&A)

Mathematica TAs are available via email for consultation (please see Slack)

10:00 - 10:30 Logistics (Zoom) (video)

10:30 - 12:00 Work on group projects

12:00 - 1:00 Live Mathematica Roundtable (encouraged) (Zoom) (video not available)

• Lauren Amos, Senior Researcher
• Naihobe Gonzalez, Senior Researcher
• Cleo Jacobs Johnson, Senior Researcher
• Otis Jennings, Principal Data Scientist
• Paul Shattuck, Senior Fellow
• Shaun N. Stevenson, Research Associate

1:00 - 4:00 Work on group projects

4:00 - 5:30 Naomi Sugie, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Criminology, Law, and Society, University of California Irvine - live session to include Q&A and office hour (Zoom) (video) (Q&A) (slides)

Mathematica TAs are available via email for consultation (please see Slack)

10:00 - 10:30 Logistics (Zoom) (video)

10:30 - 12:00 Work on group projects

12:00 - 1:00 Bite-Sized Lunchtime Talk: vary CSS (encouraged) (Zoom) (video) (Q&A)

1:00 - 4:00 Work on group projects

4:00 - 5:30 Laura Nelson, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Sociology, Northeastern University - live session to include Q&A and office hour (Zoom) (video) (Q&A) (slides)

Mathematica TAs are available via email for consultation (please see Slack)

10:00 - 10:30 Logistics (video)

10:30 - 12:00 SICSS-Howard/Mathematica 2021 Keynote Address, Timnit Gebru, Ph.D., Co-founder, Black in AI (Zoom) (video)

12:00 - 12:30 Break

12:30 - 12:50 Overview of Group and Individual Project Presentations

12:50 - 4:20 Group and Individual Project Presentations (Zoom)

4:20 - 5:00 Closing Plenary address and Q&A, Paul Decker, President and Chief Executive Officer, Mathematica (Zoom) (video)

5:00 - 5:15 Break

5:15 - 5:45 SICSS-Howard/Mathematica Final Debrief and conclusion