SICSS-Roma Tor Vergata

June 19 to June 23, 2023 | University of Roma Tor Vergata

Schedule & Materials

Schedule Overview

Monday June 19, 2023

Introduction to Computational Social Science. Video. Slides.
Why SICSS? Video. Slides.
Ethics. Video Part 1. Slides Part 1. Video Part Two. Slides Part Two. Video Additions and Extensions. Slides Additions and Extensions.
Guest Speaker: Caleb Ziems

Tuesday June 20, 2023

What is Digital Trace Data? Video. Slides.
Strengths and Weakness of Digital Trace Data. Video. Slides. Annotated Code.
Application Programming Interfaces. Video. Slides. Annotated Code.
Screen Scraping. Video. Slides. Annotated Code.
Building Apps and Bots for Social Science Research. Video. Slides. Annotated Code.

Wednesday June 21, 2023

An Introduction to Text Analysis. Video. Slides. Annotated Code.
Text Analysis Basics. Video. Slides. Annotated Code.
Dictionary-Based Text Analysis. Video. Slides. Annotated Code.
Topic Models. Video. Slides. Annotated Code.
Text Networks. Video. Slides. Annotated Code.

Thursday June 22, 2023

Spatial Data.

Friday June 23, 2023

Group Project Presentations and Discussion.

Host a Location

You can host a partner location of the Summer Institutes of Computational Social Science (SICSS) at your university, company, NGO, or government agency.