June 14 to June 25, 2021 | Nova School of Business and Economics | Virtual event
5:00 - 6:00pm Meet-and-greet (Zoom)
10:00 - 10:30 Introduction and logistics (Zoom)
10:30 - 11:30 Small group discussions Lesson plan (participants) (Zoom)
11:30 - 12:00 Break
12:00 - 1:00 Small group lunches (optional) (Zoom)
1:00 - 1:30 Break
1:30 - 1:45 Introduction to the group exercise Lesson plan (participants); Lesson plan (instructors) (Zoom)
1:45 - 2:45 Small group discussion of case study (Zoom)
2:45 - 3:15 Whole group debrief about case study (Zoom)
3:20 - 3:45 Debrief and logistics (Zoom)
3:45 - 4:00 Apply for data access for Fragile Families Challenge activity if you haven’t already
4:00 - 5:30 Talk by Prof. David Lazer (by courtesy of SICSS-London & SICSS-Oxford)
10:00 - 10:15 Logistics and introduction to group exercise (Zoom)
10:15 - 11:30 Designing a Research Question with Digital Trace Data (Zoom)
11:30 - 12:00 Break
12:00 - 1:00 Participant flash talks (encouraged) (Zoom)
1:00 - 1:15 Break
1:15 - 2:30 Collecting Digital Trace Data (Zoom)
2:30 - 3:30 Discussing Strengths & Benefits plus Hybrid Designs (Zoom)
3:30 - 3:45 Debrief and logistics (Zoom)
3:45 - 4:00 Break
4:30 - 6:00 Talk by Prof. Joana Sa
10:00 - 10:15 Logistics and introduction to group exercise (Zoom)
10:15 - 11:30 Group Exercise (Zoom)
11:30 - 12:00 Break
12:00 - 1:00 Participant flash talks (encouraged) (Zoom)
1:00 - 1:15 Break
1:15 - 3:30 Group Exercise (Zoom)
3:30 - 3:45 Debrief and logistics (Zoom)
10:00 - 10:15 Logistics (Zoom)
10:15 - 10:30 Introduction to the group exercise, Lesson plan (participants); Lesson plan (instructors) (Zoom)
10:30 - 11:30 Morning group exercise (Zoom)
11:30 - 12:00 Break
12:00 - 1:00 Participant flash talks (encouraged) (Zoom)
1:00 - 1:15 Break
1:15 - 3:00 Afternoon group exercise (Zoom)
3:00 - 3:15 Break
3:15 - 3:30 Whole group debrief about group exercise (Zoom)
3:30 - 3:45 Debrief and logistics (Zoom)
4:30 - 6:00 Talk by Dr. Moinul Zaber: Prospects of CSS for policy making in the developing world
10:00 - 10:15 Logistics (Zoom)
10:15 - 10:30 Introduction to the group exercise Video Slides (Zoom)
10:30 - 11:30 Participate in the Fragile Families Challenge Lesson plan (participants); Lesson plan (instructors) (Zoom)
11:30 - 12:00 Break
12:00 - 1:00 Participant flash talks (encouraged) (Zoom)
1:00 - 1:15 Break
1:15 - 3:00 Continue participating in the Fragile Families Challenge (Zoom)
3:00 - 3:15 Break
3:15 - 3:30 Whole group debrief about group exercise (Zoom)
3:30 - 3:45 Debrief and logistics (Zoom)
3:45 - 4:00 Delete the Fragile Families data from your computer
10:00 - 10:30 Research Speed Dating Logistics Slides for Instructors (Zoom)
10:30 - 11:45 Research Speed Dating Maximally Similar Groups (Zoom)
11:45 - 1:15 Break
1:15 - 2:30 Research Speed Dating Maximally Dissimilar Groups (Zoom)
2:30 - 2:45 Break
2:45 - 3:00 Group Debrief (join research teams) (Zoom)
4:00 - 5:00 Using images and video data for social science: Challenges and opportunities (Zoom) Register here
6:00 - 7:00 Introduction to Text Analysis in Python: A Hands-on Tutorial (Zoom) Registration closed
4:00 - 6:00 Talk by Eszter Hargittai (by courtesy of SICSS-London & SICSS-Oxford)
5:00 - 6:00 Panel discussion on the non-academic job market in computational social science (Zoom) Register here
5:00 - 6:30 Panel discussion on the (many) paths to computational social science research in law (Zoom) Register here
4:00 - 5:30 Tutorial on deep learning for causal inference (Zoom) Register here
6:00 - 7:00 Taking Quantitative Description Seriously (Zoom) Register here
12:00 - 4:00 Present group projects (Zoom)
4:00 - 4:30 Debrief and conclusion
You can host a partner location of the Summer Institutes of Computational Social Science (SICSS) at your university, company, NGO, or government agency.