June 01 to June 25, 2021 | Kadir Has University | Virtual event
18:00-19:00 Zoom Welcome session and the commencement of the pre-SICSS period
Why we have a Pre-SICSS Period?
This 2-week pre-SICSS period will feature a number of essential computational social science readings, along with programming foundation modules to bridge everyone’s diverse skill set. Even if you have excellent programming skills, please go along with us through this period, so that when the actual SICSS begins, you’ll already have a good sense of common problems and skill sets, so that you can get an understanding of who to partner with during the second week of SICSS, where groups will come up with their own research questions and work on it for an entire week.
What are Pre-SICSS Tasks?
Pre-SICSS tasks provide you with practical experience of SICSS Boot Camp, Day 2 (Collecting Digital Trace Data), and Day 3(Automated Text Analysis) of SICSS Lecture Materials. We extended Day 2 and 3 exercises and provided more time to finish them individually (or in a group setting), considering different learning curves in our cohort. We believe that learning to code is a unique process for everyone. However, some would see a benefit in solving tasks in a group setting. Therefore, we are leaving the decision of doing our tasks individually or in a group setting to you.
What are Code Walkthrough Sessions?
While working on Pre-SICSS tasks, coding walkthrough sessions will be held on our tasks. Thus, participants will have a chance to replicate the codes on their desks to improve their coding experience.
19:30-20:00 Networking on Wonder
20:00-21:00 Getting data via APIs (Twitter)
21:00-21:10 Short Break
21:10-22:00 Getting data via Screen Scraping(Facebook,Instagram, Eksisozluk)
22:00-22:30 Networking on Wonder
19:30-20:00 Networking on Wonder
20:00-21:00 Getting data from YouTube and Reddit
21:00-21:10 Short Break
21:10-22:00 Q&A on Collecting Digital Trace Data
22:00-22:30 Networking on Wonder
19:30-20:00 Networking on Wonder
20:00-21:00 Data wrangling with tidyverse
21:00-21:10 Short Break
21:10-22:00 Data wrangling with data.table package
22:00-22:30 Networking on Wonder
19:30-20:00 Networking on Wonder
20:00-21:00 Text Basics
21:00-21:10 Short Break
21:10-22:00 Introduction to RegExr
22:00-22:30 Networking on Wonder
19:30-20:00 Networking on Wonder
20:00-21:00 Text Analysis with quanteda package-1
21:00-21:10 Short Break
21:10-22:00 Text Analysis with quanteda package-2
22:00-22:30 Networking on Wonder
19:00-20:00 Networking on Wonder
20:00-21:00 Data Visualization with ggplot2 package
21:00-21:10 Short Break
22:00-22:30 Evaluation of Pre-SICSS Period
Research Talks and Group Discussions
This week will be full of research talks and small group discussions. We already covered some of the SICSS curriculum during Pre-SICSS period. By completing Pre-SICSS tasks, you had a hands-on-experience on how to collect data from the web and how to process your data. We will have small group discussions on Ethics first. Then, we will host eminent scholars of computational social science to see not only state-of-the-art methods in the field but also applications of those methods in multiple disciplines. Some of the talks have premilinary readings. Having look at those readings will be benefit of you to follow the talk. You will also have research dating sessions to establish your group for the second week program and you are expected to report your group members and a short description of your group project at the end of the week.
17:00-17:30 Welcome again and Introduction to the Curriculum
17:30-18:00 Small group discussions: What is Computational Social Science?
18:00-18:15 Full group discussion: What is Computational Social Science?
18:15-18:45 Coffee Break on Wonder
18:45-19:00 Introduction to the Ethics group exercise
19:00-19:30 Small group discussions on Ethics: Case Study
19:30-20:00 Full group discussion on Ethics
16:00-18:00 Research Dating on Gather
16:00-17:00 Research Dating on Gather
17:00-20:00 Microgeography of Ethnic Enclaves by Özge Öner
16:00-17:00 Research Dating on Gather
17:00-20:00 Characterizing the Nature of Online Political Conversations at Scale by Ceren Budak
16:00-17:00 Research Dating on Gather
17:00-20:00 Big Data for Studying Human Migration by Tuba Bircan
Guest Talks
We believe that social science research and industry will collaborate more in the future. Computational social science methods allows academic researchers to work closely with industry compared to the past. Therefore, we will organize an industry talk with an eminent figure in Turkish innovation industry to see other side of the coin. We will also host an eminent figure of Turkish Natural Language Processing to learn the state-of-the-art NLP applications in social sciences. Additionally, we will have an alumni talk to discuss on an ongoing research started at the last year of SICSS.
Work on Group Projects and Flash Talks
This week will be mainly focused on group work projects. Up until this date, you should have an idea of which participants you’d like to team up with and the research question that you’ll work on. Teams that people built in previous SICSS_Istanbul events have flourished into full-fledged research groups, presenting their SICSS papers at APSA, ASA and beyond!
16:00-17:00 Office Hour and Flash Talks of Group Projects
17:00-20:00 Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics Ecosystem in the MENA Region by Doğuş Kuran
16:00-17:00 Office Hour and Flash Talks of Group Projects
17:00-20:00 Natural Language Processing and Applications to Computational Social Science by Kemal Oflazer
Description: This talk will introduce the participants to basic concepts and techniques of Natural Language Processing in an interactive fashion and will highlight aspect to Turkish that make it a challenge. It will then provide an overview of NLP applications in social sciences.
16:00-17:00 Office Hour and Flash Talks of Group Projects
17:00-20:00 Automated Methods of Protest Event Collection by Erdem Yoruk, Ali Hürriyetoğlu, Fırat Duruşan, Çağrı Yoltar
16:00-17:00 Office Hour and Flash Talks of Group Projects
17:00-18:00 COVID-19 Twitter Database: Turkish Sample by Burak Ozturan - Abstract
18:00-19:00 Using mixed-methods to study Twitter activism-The case of Persian Twitter by Hossein Kermani -Abstract
17:00-19:00 Group Projects Presentations
19:00-20:00 SICSS-Istanbul Alumni Event
Social Movements in a time of the Pandemic by Erman Ermihan, Gizem Kaya, Busra Mahmutoglu
Covid Vaccine Perception in Turkey by Ozgur Can Seckin, Aybuke Atalay, Umut Duygu, Ege Otenen
An Analysis on Party Manifestos by Didar Tutan, Cigdem Unal, Venia Veselovsky, Oguzhan Izmir
Perception of conflict in the U.S. and U.K. over the Palestine issue by Selim Yaman, Ahmet Yusuf Aydın, M. Fuat Kına
Fear and Loathing during the Pandemic: the changes in what we listen to in response to macroeconomic indicators by Elif Ece Sozer, Yasemin Taskin Alp, Hakan Ozalp
You can host a partner location of the Summer Institutes of Computational Social Science (SICSS) at your university, company, NGO, or government agency.