SICSS-Aachen-Graz

July 18 to July 30, 2022 | TU Graz & RWTH Aachen

Schedule & Materials

All times are in Central European Summer Time, https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/cest. All events are held in Zoom.
Sunday July 17, 2022
  • 19:00—21:00 Get-together of participants and lecturers

Monday July 18, 2022
  • 09:30-10:00 Welcome, introductions, overview over programme and organization

  • 10:00-11:15 Lecture: What is computational social science (CSS) really

  • 11:15-11:30 Break

  • 11:30-12:45 Lecture: How digital trace data could help to answer social science questions?

  • 12:45-13:45 Lunch

  • 13:45-14:00 Introduction to exercise: Using digital trace data to answer social science questions

  • 14:00-16:30 Exercise: Using digital trace data to answer social science questions

Tuesday July 19, 2022
  • 09:30-10:30 Lecture: Harnessing web scraping and APIs to collect data

  • 10:30-12:00 Exercise: Using different APIs to collect data

  • 12:00-13:00 Lunch

  • 13:00-14:00 Guest lecture by Anna Di Natale: How to use Amazon Mechanical Turk to run digitally powered surveys

  • 14:00-15:45 Exercise: Using Amazon Mechanical Turk to collect data

Wednesday July 20, 2022
  • 09:30-10:30 Guest lecture by David Garcia: Combining surveys and Big Data

  • 10:30-12:30 Exercise: Using transformer models to extract information from text and combine them with data from surveys

  • 12:30-13:30 Lunch

  • 13:30-15:00 Guest lecture by Markus Strohmaier: Introduction to networks in CSS

  • 15:00-16:30 Exercise: Analysis of retweet networks of Swiss politicians

Thursday July 21, 2022
  • 09:30-10:45 Lecture: How to write a (good!) CSS paper

  • 10:45-12:30 Group activity and discussion on how to write a good CSS paper

  • 12:30-13:30 Lunch

  • 13:30-14:30 Lecture: Visualize your data: DOs and DON’Ts

  • 14:30-16:30 Exercise: Creating informative visualizations using Python

  • 17:30-20:00 [optional] geo-caching in Aachen & Graz

Friday July 22, 2022
  • 09:30-11:00 Lecture: Potential pitfalls and problems for awesome CSS projects

  • 11:00-14:30 Project idea generation & group formation

  • 14:30-16:00 Guest lecture by Suhem Parack: Introduction to using the Twitter API to collect insane amounts of data

Monday July 25, 2022
  • 09:30-16:30 Work on projects

  • 16:00-17:30 Guest lecture by Chris Bail

Tuesday July 26, 2022
  • 09:30-16:30 Work on projects

  • 16:00-17:30 Guest lecture by Roberta Sinatra: Quantifying the dynamics of impact in science and art

Wednesday July 27, 2022
  • 09:30-16:30 Work on projects

  • 16:00-17:30 Guest lecture by Alina Arseniev-Koehler: Integrating Topic Modeling and Word Embedding to Characterize Violent DeathsPaper 1, Paper 2, Code

Thursday July 28, 2022
  • 09:30-16:30 Work on projects and presentations

Friday July 29, 2022
  • 09:30-16:00 Work on project presentations

  • 13:00-16:00 Project presentations

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