SICSS-Sydney

June 20 to July 1, 2022 | University of Sydney

Schedule & Materials

Monday June 20, 2022 - Introduction and Ethics
  • 09:00-10:00 Arrivals, coffee/tea

  • 10:00-11:30 Welcome and introduction to computational social science
    Olga Boichak, Eduardo Altmann, Tristram Alexander, Lee Wallace

  • 11:30-12:30 Human research ethics
    Olga Boichak
    Workshop materials

  • 12:30-13:00 Lunch break

  • 13:00-14:30 Human research ethics (group exercise)
    Olga Boichak

  • 14:30-16:00 Human research ethics (workshop)
    Kate Lowrie, Alan Hales

  • 16:00-17:00 Participant lightning talks (part 1)

Tuesday June 21, 2022 - APIs and Digital Trace Data
  • 09:30-10:00 Coffee/tea

  • 10:00-11:00 Collecting digital trace data
    Tristram Alexander

  • 11:00-12:30 Academic research using the Twitter API (workshop)
    Suhem Parack
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  • 12:30-13:00 Lunch break

  • 13:00-14:00 Research data management
    Simon Musgrave, Ben Foley, Sam Hames
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  • 14:00-16:00 Collecting digital trace data (group exercise)
    Tristram Alexander

  • 16:00-17:00 Participant lightning talks (part 2)

Wednesday June 22, 2022 - Text As Data
  • 09:30-10:00 Coffee/tea

  • 10:00-12:30 Automated text analysis: corpus approaches
    Simon Musgrave, Ben Foley, Sam Hames

  • 12:30-13:00 Lunch break

  • 13:00-15:30 Automated text analysis: network and sentiment analysis
    Simon Musgrave, Ben Foley, Sam Hames

  • 15:30-17:00 Project pitches

Thursday June 23, 2022 - Mixed Methods
  • 09:30-10:00 Coffee/tea

  • 10:00-11:00 Mapping Online Problematic Content: Mixing Qualitative Approaches with State-of-the-art Machine Learning
    Marian-Andrei Rizoiu
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  • 11:00-12:30 Project work: composition of teams

  • 12:30-13:00 Lunch break

  • 15:30-17:00 Project work: research design

Friday June 24, 2022 - Computational Social Science Fair (Data61 Eveleigh campus)
Monday June 27, 2022 - Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia Workshop (Day 1)
  • 09:00-9:30 Welcome and Acknowledgement of Country
    Olga Boichak, Nick Enfield, Simon Jackman, Lee Wallace

  • 9:30-11:00 Panel 1. Computational social science in Australia: research approaches

  • 11:00-11:30 Coffee break

  • 11:30-13:00 Panel 2. Computational social science in Australia: infrastructure and capabilities

  • 13:00-14:00 Lunch break

  • 14:00-15:00 Panel 3. Computational social science in Australia: industry perspectives

  • 15:00-16:00 Discussion and debrief

  • 16:00-17:00 Reception

Tuesday June 28, 2022 - Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia Workshop (Day 2)
  • 09:00-9:30 Welcome and goals for the day
    Olga Boichak, Eduardo Altmann, Tristram Alexander, Jonathon Hutchinson

  • 9:30-11:00 Panel 4. Teaching computational social science

  • 11:00-11:30 Coffee break

  • 11:30-13:00 Panel 5. Practice of social research in the age of big data

  • 13:00-14:00 Lunch break

  • 14:00-16:00 Workshop: mapping the key themes and participating institutions

  • 16:00-16:30 Closing remarks

  • 17:00-18:00 The Science of Success (Australian premiere, documentary screening and discussion with Australian director Annamaria Talas
    This showing will take place at the University of Sydney campus. It is open to the public, register here

Wednesday June 29, 2022 - Specific Applications Part 1: Studying Content and Dynamics
  • 09:30-10:00 Coffee/tea

  • 10:00-12:30 New and emerging methods for studying online influence operations
    Timothy Graham
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  • 12:30-13:00 Lunch break

  • 13:00-15:30 The Image Machine
    Daniel Angus
    Workshop materials
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  • 15:30-17:00 Project work

Thursday June 30, 2022 - Specific Applications Part 2: Models and Modelling
  • 09:30-10:00 Coffee/tea

  • 10:00-12:30 Agent-based modelling
    Jason Thompson
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  • 12:30-13:00 Lunch break

  • 13:00-17:00 Project work

Friday July 1, 2022 - Season Finale
  • 09:30-10:00 Coffee/tea

  • 10:00-12:30 Project work

  • 12:30-13:00 Lunch break

  • 13:00-14:30 SSSHARC Tank - group projects final presentations
    Lee Wallace, Eduardo Altmann, Tristram Alexander, Jonathon Hutchinson

  • 14:30-15:30 Closing session

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