SICSS-HSE

June 14 to June 19, 2021 | Higher School of Economics | Virtual event

Schedule & Materials

All times are in Central European Summer Time, https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/cest. All events are held in Zoom.
Sunday June 13, 2021
  • 18:00 Meet-and-greet (based on this model)

Monday June 14, 2021 - Introduction and Ethics
Tuesday June 15, 2021 - Collecting Digital Trace Data
  • 12:00 - 12:15 Logistics and introduction

  • 12:15 - 12:45 Elizaveta Sivak. Benefits & Weaknesses of Digital Trace Data plus Hybrid Designs. Slides

  • 12:45 - 13:30 Elizaveta Sivak. Reddit as a source of data Slides, Code

  • 13:30 - 14:00 Break

  • 14:00 - 15:45 Group Exercise: Collecting Digital Trace Data (Reddit). Lesson plan (participants)

  • 15:45 - 16:30 Break

  • 16:30 - 17:15 Whole group debrief about the group exercise. Discussing Benefits & Weaknesses of Digital Trace Data based the pre-recorded lectures Day 2

  • 17:15 - 17:45 Break

  • 17:45 - 19:15 Guest speaker: Rene Kizilcec. Randomized Field Experiments in Online Learning Video

Wednesday June 16, 2021 - Automated Text Analysis and Networks Science
  • 12:00 - 12:15 Logistics and introduction to group exercise

  • 12:15 - 14:00 Group Exercise based on the pre-recorded lectures (Day 3). Lesson plan (participants)

  • 14:00 - 14:45 Break

  • 14:45 - 15:15 Whole group debrief about the group exercise

  • 15:15 - 15:45 Break

  • 15:45 - 17:00 Sofia Dokuka. Social network analysis: research design. Slides Video

  • 17:00 - 17:45 Break

  • 17:45 - 19:15 Guest lecture: Sune Lehmann. Modeling temporal communication networks and dynamical processes (abstract) Video

Thursday June 17, 2021 - Surveys in the Digital Age
  • 12:00 - 12:05 Logistics

  • 12:05 - 12:20 Introduction to the group exercise

  • 12:20 - 13:20 Non-probability-based Surveys in Practice: group exercise based on the pre-recorded lectures Day 4. Lesson plan (participants)

  • 13:20 - 14:00 Break

  • 14:00 - 14:20 Flash-talk by Alex Knorre ‘Where people shoot? Spatial analysis of gun violence in Philadelphia’

  • 14:20 - 14:40 Flash talk by Nora Kirkizh ‘Can Website Choices Predict Political Issue Preferences?’

  • 14:40 - 15:00 Flash talk by Nan Zhang ‘Linking Twitter Handles to Survey Data: Outline of a study design and potential empirical application’

  • 15:00 - 15:30 Break

  • 15:30 - 17:00 Continue participating in the group exercise

  • 17:00 - 17:15 Whole group debrief about the group exercise

  • 17:15 - 17:45 Break

  • 17:45 - 18:45 Ivan Smirnov. How to publish a computational social science paper? Slides Video

Friday June 18, 2021 - Mass collaboration and machine learning
  • 12:00 - 12:15 Logistics

  • 12:15 - 12:30 Introduction to the group exercise Video Slides

  • 12:30 - 13:30 Participate in the Fragile Families Challenge Lesson plan (participants), Lesson plan (instructors)

  • 13:30 - 14:00 Break

  • 14:00 - 15:00 Continue participating in the Fragile Families Challenge

  • 15:00 - 15:30 Break

  • 15:30 - 17:00 Continue participating in the Fragile Families Challenge

  • 17:00 - 17:30 Break

  • 17:30 - 18:00 Whole group debrief about group exercise

Saturday June 19, 2021 - Closing day
  • 12:30 - 12:55 Flash talk by Irina Busurkina ‘Uncovering exemplars from user-generated content with NLP techniques: the case of digital games’

  • 12:55 - 13:20 Flash talk by Timur Osmanov ‘Combining Survey Data and Digital Traces to measure attitudes towards health care system’

  • 13:20 - 13:45 Flash talk by Angelika Tsivinskaya ‘Russian Studies’: Methodology

  • 13:45 - 14:00 Break

  • 14:00 - 14:25 Flash talk by Jesse Bryant ‘White Nationalism and Word Embeddings: A Method for Dogwhistles?’

  • 14:25 - 14:50 Flash talk by Yuri Rykov ‘Digital phenotyping in cardiometabolic and mental health research’

  • 14:50 - 16:30 Break

  • 16:30 - 18:00 Guest speaker: Munmun de Choudhury. Employing Social Media to Improve Mental Health: Pitfalls, Lessons Learned, and the Next Frontier (abstract) Video

  • 18:00 - 18:15 Break

  • 18:15 - 18:30 Debrief and Conclusion

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