SICSS-Chile

July 17 to July 27, 2023 | Pontificia Universidad Católica

Schedule & Materials

- Sala, C301, Facultad de Ingeniería Campus San Joaquín, Pontificia Universidad Católica. [Access to materials (Accesso a materiales)](https://github.com/ppseguel/sicss-chile-2023)
Monday July 17, 2023 - Day 1: Introduction and Ethics

  • 09:30 - 10:00 Orientation: introduction of organizers, goals/expectation of the program, means of communications (e.g., slack)

  • 10:00 - 11:00 Overview Lecture: What is Computational Social Science? - Andrés Abeliuk et al.Link

  • 11:00 - 11:30 Morning coffee

  • 11:30 - 13:00 Small group activity Link

  • 13:00 - 14:00 Lunch

  • 14:00 - 15:00 Keynote: Speaker on Data and Ethics - Claudia López

  • 15:00 - 16:30 Ethics Case (group discussions) - Pedro Seguel Link

Tuesday July 18, 2023 - Day 2: Knowledge graphs/Natural Language Processing

  • 09:30 - 11:00 Lecture: Knowledge graphs - Sebastián Ferrada

  • 11:00 - 11:30 Morning coffee

  • 11:30 - 13:00 Workshop: Querying Wikidata - Sebastián Ferrada

  • 13:00 - 14:00 Lunch

  • 14:00 - 15:00 Lecture: Text as Data/NLP intro - Pedro Seguel

  • 15:00 - 16:30 Workshop: Text Analysis I - Jorge Ortiz

Wednesday July 19, 2023 - Day 3: Text Analysis/Natural Language Processing

  • 09:30 - 11:00 Workshop: Text Analysis II - Gabriel Iturra

  • 11:00 - 11:30 Morning coffee

  • 11:30 - 13:00 Keynote: Large Language Models - Felipe Bravo-Márquez

  • 13:00 - 14:00 Lunch

  • 14:00 - 15:30 Workshop: Web Scrapping - Gabriel Iturra

  • 15:30 - 15:45 Short Break

  • 15:45 - 16:30 Group exercises Link

Thursday July 20, 2023 - Day 4: Visualization and Data Analysis

  • 09:30 - 11:00 Lecture: Data Visualization - Cinthia Sánchez

  • 11:00 - 11:30 Morning coffee

  • 11:30 - 13:00 Workshop: Data Visualization - Cinthia Sánchez

  • 13:00 - 14:00 Lunch

  • 14:00 - 15:15 Lecture: Unsupervised Learning - Hernán Sarmiento

  • 15:15 - 15:30 Short Break

  • 15:30 - 16:30 Workshop: Unsupervised Learning - Hernán Sarmiento

Friday July 21, 2023 - Day 5: Research Speed Dating/Group Formation

  • 09:30 - 11:00 Keynote: Plataforma Telar -Juan Pablo Luna

  • 11:00 - 11:30 Morning coffee

  • 11:30 - 12:00 Workshop: ChatGPT API- Andrés Abeliuk

  • 12:00 - 13:00 Research Speed Dating Logistics

  • 13:00 - 14:00 Lunch

  • 14:00 - 15:00 Research Speed Dating Maximally Similar Groups

  • 15:00 - 15:15 Short Break

  • 15:15 - 16:00 Research Speed Dating Maximally Dissimilar Groups

  • 16:00 - 16:30 Group Debrief (Project selection)

Saturday July 22, 2023 - Day off
Sunday July 23, 2023 - Day off
Monday July 24, 2023 - Day 6: Work on group projects + Keynotes

  • 09:30 - 11:00 Keynote: La Ciencia de Datos como Motor de la Innovación Social - Jazmine Maldonado, Innovación y Transferencia Tecnológica, IMFD

  • 11:00 - 11:30 Morning coffee

  • 11:30 - 13:00 Keynote: Disinformation and network analysis - Marcelo Mendoza

  • 13:00 - 14:00 Lunch

  • 14:00 - 15:00 Project Time

  • 15:00 - 15:15 Short Break

  • 15:15 - 16:30 Project Time

Tuesday July 25, 2023 - Day 7: Work on group projects + Workshop

  • 09:30 - 11:00 Keynote: Experimentos online - Mauricio Bucca

  • 11:00 - 11:30 Morning coffee

  • 11:30 - 13:00 Project Time

  • 13:00 - 14:00 Lunch

  • 14:00 - 15:00 Project Time with Claudio Gutiérrez (Ethics discussion about projects)

  • 15:00 - 15:15 Short Break

  • 15:15 - 16:30 Project Time

Wednesday July 26, 2023 - Day 8: Work on group projects + Workshop

  • 09:30 - 11:00 Keynote: Pew Research Center, DataLabs - Gonzalo Riveros, Zoom

  • 11:00 - 11:30 Morning coffee

  • 11:30 - 13:00 Industry Panel: DESUC (Cristián Ayala), Ulhoster (Antonio Díaz-Araujo)- Pablo Beytía

  • 13:00 - 14:00 Lunch

  • 14:00 - 15:00 Lecture: Challenges interpreting digital social data - Pablo Beytía

  • 15:00 - 15:15 Short Break

  • 15:15 - 16:30 Project Time

Thursday July 27, 2023 - Day 9: Work on group projects + Presentations!

  • 09:30 - 11:00 Project Time

  • 11:00 - 11:30 Morning coffee

  • 11:30 - 13:00 Project Time

  • 13:00 - 14:00 Lunch

  • 14:00 - 15:00 Group Presentation

  • 15:00 - 15:15 Short Break

  • 15:15 - 16:30 Group Presentation

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