SICSS-Oxford

June 14 to June 25, 2021 | University of Oxford | Virtual event

Schedule & Materials

All times are in British Summer Time (BST)
The current schedule is still preliminary (!)
Sunday June 13, 2021

  • 5:00pm Meet-and-greet, Introductions

Monday June 14, 2021 - Introduction and Ethics

  • 10:15 - 10:30 Housekeeping

  • 10:30 - 13:00 Lecture: Introduction to reproducible workflows

  • 13:00 - 14:00 Lunch

  • 14:00 - 16:00 Exercise: Reproducible workflows

  • 16:00 - 18:00 Oxford-London Joint Research Talk: David Lazer

Tuesday June 15, 2021 - Working with digital data - web scraping and APIs

  • 10:00 - 12:00 Lecture: Introduction to Webscraping and APIs

  • 12:00 - 13:00 Exercise: Webscraping and APIs exercise

  • 13:00 - 14:00 Lunch

  • 14:00 - 16:00 Research Talk: Ridhi Kashyap

  • 16:00 - 18:00 Oxford-London Joint Research Talk: Ken Benoit

Wednesday June 16, 2021 - Non-Probability Samples

  • 10:00 - 13:00 Lecture: Introduction to Non-Probability Samples

  • 13:00 - 14:00 Lunch

  • 14:00 - 16:00 Exercise: Non-Probability Samples

Thursday June 17, 2021 - Text as Data

  • 10:00 - 13:00 Lecture: Introduction to Text as Data

  • 13:00 - 14:00 Lunch

  • 14:00 - 16:00 Exercise: Text as Data

  • 16:00 - 18:00 Research Talk: Laura Nelson

Friday June 18, 2021 - Machine learning and computer vision

  • 10:00 - 13:00 Lecture: Introduction to ML and Computer Vision

  • 13:00 - 14:00 Lunch

  • 14:00 - 16:00 Exercise: ML and Computer Vision

  • 16:00 - 17:00 Research Talk: Saul Newman

Saturday June 19, 2021 - Geospatial data and analysis

  • 10:00 - 13:00 Lecture: Introduction to geospatial data and analysis

  • 14:00 - 16:00 Lecture and Exercise: Visualising geospatial data

Monday June 21, 2021 - Group Projects Work

  • 10:00 - 13:00 Brainstorming/sorting for group formation

  • 13:00 - 14:00 Lunch

  • 14:00 - 16:00 Groups work on projects

  • 16:00 - 18:00 Research Talk: Alexandra A. Siegel

Tuesday June 22, 2021 - Group Projects Work

  • 16:00 - 18:00 Oxford-London Joint Research Talk: Eszter Hargittai

Wednesday June 23, 2021 - Group Projects Work

  • 10:00 - 12:00 Oxford-London Joint Research Talk: Peaks Krafft

Thursday June 24, 2021 - Group Projects Work

  • 13:00 - 14:00 Oxford-London Joint Research Talk: Viktoria Spaiser

  • 16:00 - 18:00 Research Talk: Robin Lovelace

Friday June 25, 2021 - Present group projects

  • 14:00 - 17:00 Present group projects

  • 17:00 - 17:30 Debrief and conclusion

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