WICSS-Abu Dhabi

January 2024 | NYU Abu-Dhabi

Schedule & Materials

Monday January 8, 2024 - Biases & Ethics in CSS

9:00-9:30 Welcome and Introductions
9:30-12:00 Lecture: Biases and Ethical Considerations in the Lifecycle of CSS (with Minsu Park)
12:00-13:30 Lunch Break
13:30-17:00 Prompt Group Exercise (Introduction, Team Assignment, and Exercise Time)
19:00-21:00 Welcome Dinner at the Torch Club

Tuesday January 9, 2024 - Automated Data Collection & Data Ownership

9:00-12:00 Lecture: Automated Data Collection and Ownership (with Bedoor AlShebli)
12:00-13:30 Lunch Break
13:30-14:30: Lecture continued (with Bedoor AlShebli)
14:30-17:00 Prompted Group Exercise

Wednesday January 10, 2024 - Causal Inference

9:00-12:00 Lecture: Causal Inference (with Kinga Makovi)
12:00-13:30 Lunch Break
13:30-17:00 Prompted Group Exercise

Thursday January 11, 2024 - Online Experiments & Guest Lecture

9:00-11:00 Lecture: Online Platforms and Experiments (with Mario Molina)
11:00-12:30 Guest Lecture: Milena Tsvetkova
12:30-14:00 Lunch Break
14:00-17:00 Prompted Group Exercise
14:00-17:00 One-on-one Meetings with Milena Tsvetkova

Friday January 12, 2024 - Computational Demography

9:00-12:00 Lecture: Online Data Sources and Computational Techniques to Study Demographic Dynamics and Socioeconomic Inequalities Globally (with Luca Maria Pesando)
12:00-13:30 Lunch Break
14:00-16:30 Presentations of the Prompt Group Exercise Reports
16:30-17:00 Group Project Introduction

Monday January 15, 2024 - Group Project & Guest Lecture

9:00-9:30 Group Project Idea Presentations - Lighting Round (5 mins each)
9:45-11:00 Guest Lecture: Edmond Awad
11:15-12:00 One-on-one Meetings with Edmond Awad (15 min slots)
11:15-12:00 Group Project
12:00-13:30 Lunch Break
13:45-16:00 One-on-one Meetings with Edmond Awad (cntd)
13:30-17:00 Group Project

Tuesday January 16, 2024 - Group Project

9:00-12:00 Group Project Advice Meetings with Edmond Awad (30 min slots / group)
9:00-12:00 Group project
12:00-13:30 Lunch Break
13:30-17:00 Group Project

Wednesday January 17, 2024 - Group Project

9:00-12:00 Group project
12:00-13:30 Lunch Break
13:30-17:00 Group Project

Thursday January 18, 2024 - Group Project & Guest Lecture

9:00-10:30 Guest Lecture: Abdullah AlMaatouq
10:45-12:30 One-on-one Meetings with Abdullah AlMaatouq (15 min slots)
10:45-12:30 Group Project
12:30-14:00 Lunch Break
14:00-15:00 One-on-one Meetings with Abdullah AlMaatouq (cntd)
14:00-17:00 Group Project

Friday January 19, 2024 - Group Project

9:00-12:00 Group Project Advice Meetings with Abdullah AlMaatouq (30 min slots / group)
9:00-12:00 Group project
12:00-13:30 Lunch Break
13:30-17:00 Group Project Final Presentations
19:00-22:00 Farewell Dinner at AlMayass

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