SICSS-Paris

June 20 to July 1, 2022 | Institut Polytechnique de Paris

Schedule & Materials

Sunday June 19, 2022 - What are Computational Social Sciences?

14:00 - 18:00 Arrival at Residency
18:30 - 21:00 Welcome Dinner

Monday June 20, 2022 - What are Computational Social Sciences?

09:30 - 10:30 Lecture (Étienne Ollion)
10:30 - 11:00 Logistics
11:00 - 12:00 Getting to Know Each Other
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch Break
13:30 - 14:30 Étienne Ollion: Ethics in Scraping
14:45 - 16:30 Paola Tubaro: The Ethics of AI – Micro-tasking and Micro-Workers
16:30 - 17:00 Coffee Break
17:00 - 18:30 Matthew Salganik: The (Un)Predictability of Life Outcomes

Tuesday June 21, 2022 - How is the Web Written and How to Collect Data on it?

09:30 - 12:00 Lecture (Étienne Ollion)
12:00 - 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 - 16:30 Group Exercise (Felix Lennert and Germain Gauthier)
16:30 - 17:00 Coffee Break
17:00 - 18:30 Marie Bergström: The New Laws of Love – Studying Online Dating with Big Data

Wednesday June 22, 2022 - Scraping Structured Formats

09:30 - 12:00 Lecture (Étienne Ollion)
12:00 - 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 - 16:30 Group Exercise (Felix Lennert and Germain Gauthier)
16:30 - 17:00 Coffee Break
17:00 - 18:30 Julia Cagé: Hosting Media Bias – Evidence from the Universe of French Broadcasts, 2002-2020

Thursday June 23, 2022 - Scraping unstructured formats & intro to Text as Data

10:00 - 12:30 Lecture (Étienne Ollion)
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 - 16:30 Group Exercise (Felix Lennert and Germain Gauthier)
16:30 - 17:00 Coffee Break
17:00 - 18:30 Liva Ralaivola: Privacy and Fairness in AdTech and Beyond

Friday June 24, 2022 - Natural Language Processing

10:00 - 12:30 Lecture (Germain Gauthier)
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 - 16:30 Group Exercise (Felix Lennert and Germain Gauthier)
16:30 - 17:00 Coffee Break
17:00 - 18:30 Elliott Ash: Advances in Natural Language Processing

Saturday June 25, 2022 - off-day

Sunday June 26, 2022 - off-day

Monday June 27, 2022 - Natural Language Processing

10:00 - 12:30 Lecture (Germain Gauthier)
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 - 16:30 Group Projects
16:30 - 17:00 Coffee Break
17:00 - 18:30 David Garcia: Validating Social Media Emotion Measurement Across Levels of Behavior

Tuesday June 28, 2022 - Natural Language Processing

10:00 - 12:30 Lucas Girard: Measuring Ideological Segregation from Text
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 - 16:30 Group Projects
16:30 - 17:00 Coffee Break
17:00 - 18:30 Ivaylo Petev: The Economic Penalty of Discrimination – Evidence from Online Platforms

Wednesday June 29, 2022 - Agent-Based Modeling

10:00 - 12:30 Lecture (Gianluca Manzo)
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 - 16:30 Group Projects
16:30 - 17:00 Coffee Break
17:00 - 18:30 Gloria Gennaro: Randomized Digital Experiments

Thursday June 30, 2022 - Social Experiments in a Digital World

10:00 - 12:30 Lecture (Marc Keuschnigg)
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 - 16:30 Group Projects
16:30 - 17:00 Coffee Break
17:00 - 18:30 Étienne Ollion: The Augmented Social Scientist
19:00 - 22:00 Farewell Dinner

Friday July 1, 2022 - Final day

10:00 - 12:30 Presentations

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