July 18 to July 30, 2022 | TU Graz & RWTH Aachen
19:00—21:00 Get-together of participants and lecturers
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
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
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
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
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
09:30-16:30 Work on projects
16:00-17:30 Guest lecture by Chris Bail
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
09:30-16:30 Work on projects and presentations
09:30-16:00 Work on project presentations
13:00-16:00 Project presentations
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