SICSS-Taiwan

June 28 to July 9, 2021 | National Chengchi University | Virtual event

Schedule & Materials

All times are in Taiwan Time (UTC+8)

Monday June 28, 2021 - Introduction and Ethics

9:30 - 10:35 Introduction and Opening Day 1 slides and Group activity guide
10:55 - 12:00 Ethics: Discussion Activity Day 1 slides
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch & optional small group discussion
13:00 - 15:00 The Promise of Text Mining By Prof. Hsuan-lei Shao 邵軒磊 slides
15:00 - 15:15 Debrief and Logistics

Tuesday June 29, 2021 - API & Automated Text Analysis

9:30 - 10:35 Watch 2020 SICSS Festival talk on computational and digital demography, followed by group discussion Day 2 Slides
10:55 - 12:00 Application Programming Interfaces Group Activity
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch & optional small group discussion
13:00 - 14:00 An Introduction to Text Analysis Text Analysis Basics Code along Rmd
14:00 - 15:00 Text Analysis: Activity Lesson plan
15:00 - 15:15 Debrief and Logistics

Wednesday June 30, 2021 - Building Crawlers

9:30 - 10:35 Screen scraping/crawler exercise - brainstorming Day 3 Slides, Lesson plan
10:55 - 12:00 Screen scraping/crawler exercise - prototyping
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch & optional small group discussion
13:00 - 15:00 Speaker Session: Hsuan-Wei Lee slides
15:00 - 15:15 Debrief and Logistics

Thursday July 1, 2021 - Surveys in the Digital Age

9:30 - 10:35 Probability and Non-Probability Sampling; Introduction to the group exercise, Lesson plan (participants); Lesson plan (instructors), Day 4 slides
10:55 - 12:00 Probability and Non-Probability Sampling
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch & optional small group discussion
13:00 - 15:00 Speaker Session: Christy Pu
15:00 - 15:15 Debrief and Logistics

Friday July 2, 2021 - Experiment & Research Pairing Activity

9:30 - 10:35 Group exercise brainstorming Lesson Plan
10:55 - 12:00 Flash Talk (7 min + 7 min Q&A) from Participants
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch & optional small group discussion
13:00 - 14:00 Research Pairing Activity 1 slides
14:00 - 15:00 Project Discussion
15:00 - 15:15 Debrief and Logistics

Monday July 5, 2021 - Research Project

9:30 - 10:30 Research Pairing Activity 2
10:45 - 12:00 Research Project
13:00 - 15:00 Optional: Watch another recorded session of SICSS festival, followed by group discussion

Tuesday July 6, 2021 - Research Project + Speaker Session

10:00 - 12:00 Speaker Session: Cheng-Te Li
13:00 - 16:00 Research Project

Wednesday July 7, 2021 - Research Project

10:30 - 12:00 Research Project
13:00 - 15:20 Mid-Point Flash Talks + Feedback
15:30 - 17:00 Guest Speaker: Tse-Yu Lin

Thursday July 8, 2021 - Research Project + Speaker Session

9:30 - 12:00 Research Project
13:00 - 15:00 Speaker Session: Tzu-Ting Yang
15:15 - 16:00 Research Project

Friday July 9, 2021 - Research Project Presentation Day

9:30 - 10:45 Presentation
10:55 - 12:00 Presentation
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch & optional small group discussion
13:00 - 15:00 Presentation
15:15 - 16:00 Closing Session

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You can host a partner location of the Summer Institutes of Computational Social Science (SICSS) at your university, company, NGO, or government agency.