SICSS-Oxford

July 3 to July 15, 2022 | Oxford University

Schedule & Materials

Sunday July 3, 2022 - SICSS Oxford Welcome

5:00pm-7:00pm Welcome Pizza Party at the Nuffield JCR!

Monday July 4, 2022 - Open Science

09:30-09:45 Coffee and Arrivals
09:45-10:00 Ridhi Kashyap: Welcome
10:00-11:30 Research Talk: Ben Goldacre
11:30-12:30 Workshop Cassandra Gould Van Praag: An Introduction to Version Control
12:30-14:00 Lunch at Nuffield College
14:00-14:30 Workshop Georgia Richards: on Open Science and OSF
14:30-16:00 Workshop Adam Kenny: Reproducible Research and Reproducible Manuscripts
16:00-17:00 Research Talk Tom Douglas: on The Ethics of Predicting Behaviour

Tuesday July 5, 2022 - Machine Learning

09:30-10:45 Workshop Mark Verhagen: Introduction to Machine Learning Part I
10:45-11:15 Coffee Break
11:15-12:30 Workshop Mark Verhagen: Introduction to Machine Learning Part II
12:30-14:00 Lunch at Nuffield College
14:00-16:00 Top Secret Prediction Competition!
16:00-18:00 Research Talk: Indeed

Wednesday July 6, 2022 - Digital Trace and Geo-spatial Analysis

09:30-10:45 Workshop Ridhi Kashyap: Digital Trace Data
10:45-11:15 Coffee Break
11:15-12:30 Workshop Douglas Leasure: Monitoring population displacement in Ukraine through social media activity
12:30-14:00 Lunch at Nuffield College
14:00-15:15 Workshop Tobias Rüttenauer: Geospatial Data
15:15-16:45 Group exercise: Ridhi and Tobi
17:00-18:00 Research Talk Douglas Leasure: Geospatial methods to estimate populations for census support

Thursday July 7, 2022 - Non-Random Probability Sampling and Post-Stratification

09:30-10:45 Workshop Oriol/Francesco: Non-Random Probability Sampling and Post-Stratification
10:45-11:15 Coffee Break
11:15-12:30 Workshop Oriol/Francesco: Non-Random Probability Sampling and Post-Stratification
12:30-14:00 Lunch at Nuffield College
14:00-16:00 Group Exercise: Maksim and Francesco
16:00-18:00 Research Talk: Meta

Friday July 8, 2022 - Text As Data: Day 1

09:30-10:45 Workshop Blake Miller: Text as Data, Part 1
10:45-11:15 Coffee Break
11:15-12:30 Workshop Blake Miller: Text as Data, Part 2
12:30-14:00 Lunch at Nuffield College
14:00-16:00 Group Exercise: led by Blake Miller
16:00-18:00 Research Talk: Bo Zhao
19:00 Social Event TBC!

Saturday July 9, 2022 - Text As Data: Day 2

09:30-12:30 Workshop Lena Voita: Text as Data, Part 3
12:30-14:00 Lunch with Lena: Q & A on Text as Data

Monday July 11, 2022 - Mostly Group Projects!

09:30-11:00 Workshop: Tommaso Batistoni on Experiments
11:00-12:30 Sorting into Project Groups
12:30-14:00 Lunch at Nuffield College
14:00-16:00 Project Work
16:00-18:00 Research Talk: Amy Orben

Tuesday July 12, 2022 - Mostly Group Projects!

09:30-12:30 Project Work
12:30-14:00 Lunch at Nuffield College
14:00-16:00 Project Work
16:00-18:00 Research Talk: Nicola Barban

Wednesday July 13, 2022 - Mostly Group Projects!

09:30-12:30 Project Work
12:30-14:00 Lunch at Nuffield College
14:00-16:00 Project Work
16:00-18:00 College Tour

Thursday July 14, 2022 - Mostly Group Projects!

09:30-12:30 Project Work
12:30-14:00 Lunch at Nuffield College
14:00-16:00 Project Work
16:00-18:00 Research Talk: Bo Zhao
19:00 Dinner at Nuffield College

Friday July 15, 2022 - Mostly Group Projects!

09:30-11:00 Research Talk: Neave O’Clery
11:00-12:30 Project Work
12:30-14:00 Lunch at Nuffield College
14:00-16:30 Project Presentations

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