SICSS-London

June 12 to June 24, 2022 | Imperial College London

Schedule & Materials

Location for all events is Imperial College Business School, SW7 2AZ
All times are in UK local (BST). Some details subject to change.
Monday June 13, 2022 - Introduction and Ethics (Lead by Prof. Yeomans)

  • Location - ICBS Room LTG

  • 9:00 - 10:00 Welcome and light breakfast

  • 10:00 - 11:00 Introduction and logistics

  • 11:00 - 12:00 Small group breakouts

  • 12:00 - 1:00 Break for Lunch (provided)

  • 1:00 - 2:00 Ethics Case Study - Small group breakouts

  • 2:00 - 3:00 Ethics Case Study - whole group debrief & discussion

  • 3:00 - 4:00 Tutorial - Ethics in machine learning

  • 4:00 - 5:00 Social Hour (optional)

Tuesday June 14, 2022 - Text as Data (Lead by Prof. Yeomans)

  • Location - ICBS Room LTUG

  • 9:30 - 10:00 Light breakfast (optional)

  • 10:00 - 12:00 Code Tutorial - Extracting Features from Text

  • 12:00 - 1:00 Break for Lunch (provided)

  • 1:00 - 4:00 Small group exercise - text analysis hackathon

  • 4:00 - 5:00 Hackathon group presentations

Wednesday June 15, 2022 - Collecting Digital Trace Data (Lead by Profs. Becker & Perra)

  • Location - ICBS Room LTG

  • 9:30 - 10:00 Light breakfast (optional)

  • 10:00 - 11:30 Code Tutorial - APIs and Web Scraping

  • 11:30 - 12:00 Exercise overview & group formation

  • 12:00 - 1:00 Break for Lunch (provided)

  • 1:00 - 3:30 Small group exercise - scraping hackathon

  • 3:30 - 4:30 Hackathon group presentations

  • 4:30 - 5:00 SICSS London alumnus talk - Katharina Lawall

Thursday June 16, 2022 - Surveys in a Digital Age (Lead by Prof. Becker)

  • Location - ICBS Room LTG

  • 9:30 - 10:00 Light breakfast (optional)

  • 10:00 - 11:00 Online survey tutorial and exercise overview

  • 11:00 - 2:45 Group projects and lunch

  • 2:45 - 3:45 Discussion & presentations

  • 3:45 - 4:00 Break

  • 4:00 - 5:30 Guest Keynote Seminar - Neave O’Clery

Friday June 17, 2022 - Network analysis (Lead by Prof. Perra)

  • Location - ICBS Room LTUG

  • 9:30 - 10:00 Light breakfast (optional)

  • 10:00 - 12:00 Code Tutorial - Modeling contagion with networks

  • 12:00 - 1:00 Break for Lunch (provided)

  • 1:00 - 4:00 Small group exercise - network analysis hackathon

  • 4:00 - 5:00 Hackathon group presentations

Monday June 20, 2022 - Group Project Formation (Lead by Profs. Yeomans & Becker)

  • Location - ICBS Room LTG

  • 9:30 - 10:00 Light breakfast (optional)

  • 10:00 - 12:00 Group Project Introduction and Topic Brainstorming Exercise

  • 12:00 - 1:00 Break for Lunch (provided)

  • 1:00 - 3:00 Group Project Proposals and Matchmaking

  • 3:00 - 5:00 Guest Keynote Seminar - Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye

Tuesday June 21, 2022 - Group Project Work (Lead by Profs. Yeomans & Becker)

  • Location - ICBS Room LTUG

  • 9:30 - 10:00 Light breakfast (optional)

  • 10:00 - 12:00 Group Project Breakouts

  • 12:00 - 1:00 Break for Lunch (provided)

  • 1:00 - 1:30 Tutorial on Spatial analysis - Yuerong Zhang

  • 1:30 - 2:00 Tutorial on preregistration - Mia Jovanova

  • 2:00 - 5:00 Group Project Breakouts

Wednesday June 22, 2022 - Group Project Work (Lead by Profs. Yeomans & Becker)

  • Location - ICBS Room LG19B (morning) and LTG (afternoon)

  • 9:30 - 10:00 Light breakfast (optional)

  • 10:00 - 12:00 Group Project Breakouts

  • 12:00 - 1:00 Break for Lunch (provided)

  • 1:00 - 3:00 Guest Keynote Seminar - Alex Sutherland

  • 3:00 - 5:00 Group Project Breakouts

Thursday June 23, 2022 - Group Project Work (Lead by Profs. Yeomans & Becker)

  • Location - ICBS Room LTG

  • 9:30 - 10:00 Light breakfast (optional)

  • 10:00 - 12:00 Group Project Breakouts

  • 12:00 - 1:00 Break for Lunch (provided)

  • 1:00 - 1:30 Tutorial on large language models - Xia Zeng

  • 1:30 - 2:00 Tutorial on data visualisation - Mike Yeomans

  • 2:00 - 4:30 Group Project Breakouts

  • 4:30 - 5:00 SICSS London Alumnus talk - Ana Macanovic

Friday June 24, 2022 - Final Presentation Day (Lead by Profs. Yeomans & Becker)

  • Location - ICBS Room LTUG

  • 9:00 - 9:30 Light breakfast (optional)

  • 9:30 - 10:30 Group Project Breakouts

  • 10:30 - 12:00 Guest Keynote Seminar - Stephen Hansen

  • 12:00 - 1:00 Break for Lunch (provided)

  • 1:30 - 2:00 SICSS London Alumnus talk - Maria del Rio Chanona

  • 2:00 - 2:30 SICSS London Alumnus talk - Vincent Straub

  • 3:00 - 5:00 Final Project presentations

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