SICSS-Bologna

6 to 16 June 2022 | University of Bologna

Schedule & Materials

All times are in Central Europe Time

Monday June 6, 2022 - Introduction and Ethics [online]

9:30 - 10:00 Welcome & organization [F. Andreatta // G. Giacomello]
10:00 - 10:45 Ethics (on line material)
11:00 - 11:40 Presentation/Discussion/Exercise [Elena Esposito]
11:45 - 14:00 Break/Lunch
14:00 - 15:00 LAB - Basic: Data manipulation and visualization in R using tidyverse; Advanced: Git workflow and RStudio
15:30 - 16:30 TA Office hours [TA*2]

Tuesday June 7, 2022 - Collecting Digital Trace Data [online]

10:00 - 10:45 Collecting Digital Trace Data
11:00 - 11:40 Presentation/Discussion/Exercise [Marco Albertini]
11:45 - 14:00 Break/Lunch
14:00 - 15:00 LAB - Basic: API and academic Twitter; Advanced: Task based on Wikipedia API
15:30 - 16:30 TA Office hours [TA*2]

Wednesday June 8, 2022 - Automated Text Analysis [online]

10:00 - 10:45 Automated Text Analysis
11:00 - 11:40 Presentation/Discussion/Exercise [Luca Pinto]
11:45 - 14:00 Break/Lunch
14:00 - 15:00 LAB - Basic: Web scraping with Rvest; Advanced: Task based YouTube API
15:30 - 16:30 TA Office hours [TA*2]

Thursday June 9, 2022 - Surveys and Mass Collaboration in the Digital Age [online]

10:00 - 10:45 Surveys and Mass Collaboration
11:00 - 11:40 Presentation/Discussion/Exercise [Oltion Preka]
11:45 - 14:00 Break/Lunch
14:00 - 15:00 LAB - Basic: Sentiment analysis and topic modeling with tidytext; Advanced: Introduction to causal inference and statistical modeling in R
15:30 - 16:30 TA Office hours [TA*2]

Friday June 10, 2022 - Experiments [online]

10:00 - 10:45 Experiments
11:00 - 11:40 Presentation/Discussion/Exercise [Chiara Binelli]
Time to travel to Bologna!

Monday June 13, 2022 - Student Presentations and Guest Lectures [in person at UNIBO]

10:00 - 12:15/:30 Student Project Presentations [x3]
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch Time
15:30 - 16:30 LAB - Small group work/Discussion on students’ projects [3* TA + Marco Albertini]
16:30 - 18:30 Chris Albon - Machine Learning at Wikimedia
20:30 - 00:00 Conference Dinner

Tuesday June 14, 2022 - Student Presentations and Guest Lectures [in person at UNIBO]

10:00 - 12:15/:30 Student Project Presentations [x3]
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch Time
15:30 - 16:30 LAB - Small group work/Discussion on students’ projects [3* TA + Giampiero Giacomello]
16:30 - 18:30 Rachel Tatman - Natural Language Processing

Wednesday June 15, 2022 - Student Presentations and Guest Lectures [in person at UNIBO]

10:00 - 12:15/:30 Professor Nicola Barban - Big data from the past: Internet-based genealogies and demographic research
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch Time
14:00 - 15:30 Student Project Presentations [x3]
15:30 - 16:30 LAB - Small group work/Discussion on students’ projects [3* TA]

Thursday June 16, 2022 - Student Presentations and Guest Lectures [in person at UNIBO]

10:00 - 12:15/:30 Annalisa Pelizza - The Ontology Explorer: A Method to Make Visible Data Infrastructures for Population Management
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch Time
14:00 - 15:30 Student Project Presentations [x3]
15:30 - 16:30 LAB - Small group work/Discussion on students’ projects [3* TA]

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