SICSS-Edinburgh

June 13 to June 24, 2022 | University of Edinburgh

Schedule & Materials

Monday June 13, 2022 - Ethics, Reproducibility, and Data Collection

09:00 - 11:00 Welcome and introductions
11:00 - 13:00 Intro. CSS and ethics
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 - 16:00 APIs and web scraping
16:00 - 18:00 Research talk: Carolina Scarton. ‘Supporting professional fact-checking: Can NLP/AI help?’
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Tuesday June 14, 2022 - Computational Social Science and Digital Research Methods

10:00 - 13:00 Intro. Computational Methods
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 - 16:00 Intro. Qualitative Digital Research
16:00 - 18:00 Research talk: Anita Gohdes. ‘Distract and Divert: How World Leaders Use Social Media During Contentious Politics’
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Wednesday June 15, 2022 - Networks

10:00 - 12:30 Network theory and social media network analysis
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch Break
13:30 - 15:30 Analyzing Twitter networks
15:30 - 16:00 Break
16:00 - 18:00 Research talk: Maria Wolters. ‘When Counting and Modelling is not Enough: Case Studies from Health Research’
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Thursday June 16, 2022 - Computational Text Analysis and NLP

10:00 - 12:00 Intro. CTA
12:00 - 13:00 ILCC Poster Session
13:00 - 13:45 Lunch Break
13:45 - 15:30 Theory of text classification
15:30 - 16:00 Break
16:00 - 18:00 Research talk: Clare Llewellyn. ‘Who, or what, influences you online?’
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Friday June 17, 2022 - Machine learning and prediction

10:00 - 13:00 Text classification in practice
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 - 15:30 Population- and individual-level prediction
15:30 - 16:00 Break
16:00 - 18:00 Research talk: Benjamin Bach. ‘Open Your Eyes: Finding Shapes for Your Data’
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Saturday June 18, 2022 - Weekend day off

Sunday June 19, 2022 - Weekend day off

Monday June 20, 2022 - Group work

10:00 - 16:00 Group work
17:00 - 18:00 Digital Social Science Mixer @ INSPACE

Tuesday June 21, 2022 - Group work

10:00 - 16:00 Group work
16:00 - 17:00 Group activity: Generative music with Pedro Jacobetty

Wednesday June 22, 2022 - Group work

10:00 - 18:00 Group work

Thursday June 23, 2022 - Group work

10:00 - 18:00 Group work

Friday June 24, 2022 - Final day

10:00 - 13:00 Group work
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 17:00 Presentations
19:00 - 21:00 Final dinner

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