SICSS-NDSU

June 19 to June 30, 2022 | North Dakota State University

Schedule & Materials

Sunday May 5, 2024
Sunday June 19, 2022 - Welcoming Dinner
  • 18:00 - 20:00 Welcoming dinner in downtown Fargo

Monday June 20, 2022 - Introduction & Ethics
  • 9:30 - 10:30 Introduction and logistics

  • 10:30 - 11:30 Overview of CSS and ethics

  • 11:30 - noon Research speed-dating

  • noon - 13:30 Lunch time

  • 13:30 - 16:00 Small group activity

Tuesday June 21, 2022 - Collecting Digital Trace Data
  • 9:30 - 10:00 Logistics

  • 10:00 - 11:30 Tutorial on web scraping

  • 11:30 - noon Research speed-dating

  • noon - 13:30 Lunch time

  • 13:30 - 16:00 Small group activity

  • 16:00 - 17:00 Participant research talks: Jamie Chen, Loi A. Nguyen

Wednesday June 22, 2022 - Natural Language Processing
  • 9:30 - 10:00 Logistics

  • 10:00 - 11:30 Tutorial on NLP and sentiment analysis

  • 11:30 - noon Research speed-dating

  • noon - 13:30 Lunch time & talk by Kaiping Chen (UW Madison)

  • 13:30 - 16:00 Small group activity

  • 16:00 - 17:00 Participant research talks: Hao Xu, Maral Abdollahi

Thursday June 23, 2022 - Network Analysis
  • 9:30 - 10:00 Logistics

  • 10:00 - noon Tutorial on network analysis

  • noon - 13:30 Lunch time & speakers Dan Pemstein & Dane Mataic (NDSU)

  • 13:30 - 16:00 Small group activity

  • 16:00 - 17:00 Participant research talks: Prasanna Humagain, Sarah Thorngate, Lei Jiang

Friday June 24, 2022 - Data Visualization
  • 9:30 - 10:00 Logistics

  • 10:00 - 11:30 Tutorial on data visualization

  • 11:30 - noon Group formation

  • noon - 13:30 Lunch time

  • 13:30 - 14:30 Campus tour

  • 14:30 - 16:00 Small group activity

  • 16:00 - 17:00 Participant research talks: Yuming Fang, Sara Bano

Saturday June 25, 2022 - Day Off
  • Enjoy Fargo!

Sunday June 26, 2022 - Day Off
  • Enjoy Fargo!

Monday June 27, 2022 - Supervised Machine Learning I & HPC Computing
  • 9:30 - 10:00 Logistics

  • 10:00 - 11:30 Learning session

  • 11:30 - noon Group check-ins

  • noon - 13:30 Lunch time & talk by Tian Yang (Chinese U of Hong Kong)

  • 13:30 - 16:00 Group work time

Tuesday June 28, 2022 - Supervised Machine Learning II
  • 9:30 - 10:00 Logistics

  • 10:00 - 11:30 Learning session

  • 11:30 - noon Group check-ins

  • noon - 13:30 Lunch time & talk by S. Scott Graham (UT Austin)

  • 13:30 - 16:00 Group work time

Wednesday June 29, 2022 - Unsupervised Machine Learning
  • 9:30 - 10:00 Logistics

  • 10:00 - 11:30 Tutorial on cluster analysis & topic modeling

  • 11:30 - noon Group check-ins

  • noon - 13:30 Lunch time & talk by Saif Shahin (Tilburg U)

  • 13:30 - 16:00 Group work time

Thursday June 30, 2022 - Group Presentation Day
  • 9:30 - 10:00 Logistics

  • 10:00 - noon Group presentation (projects TBA)

  • noon - 14:00 Farewell Lunch

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