SICSS-Atlanta

July 22 to August 2, 2024 | Clark Atlanta University

Schedule & Materials

All times are Eastern Standard Time (EST)
Monday July 22, 2024 - Intro, Ethics, & Web Scraping

  • 9:30 Meet at PAW Office - 3rd Floor Student Center

  • 10:00 – Continental Breakfast

  • 10:30 - 12:00 Organizers and Participants Introduction, History of SICSS & Computational Ethics (Kat Albrecht)

  • 12:00 - 13:00 Lunch

  • 13:30 - 14:30 Web Scraping (Kat Albrecht)

  • 14:30 - 14:45 Break/Snacks

  • 14:45 - 16:30 Group Work and Wrap-Up (Kat)

Tuesday July 23, 2024 - Text Analysis Workshop

  • 10:00 – Continental Breakfast

  • 10:30 - 12:00 Charlotte NLP Tutorial

  • 12:00 - 13:00 Lunch

  • 13:30 - 14:30 Charlotte Alexander Research Talk

  • 14:30 - 14:45 Break/Snacks

  • 14:45 - 16:30 Group Work and Wrap-Up

Wednesday July 24, 2024 - Machine Learning

  • 10:00 – Continental Breakfast

  • 10:30 - 12:00 – Dr. Washington and Team (NSF Grants,etc.)

  • 12:00 - 13:00 Lunch

  • 13:00 - 14:30 Machine Learning Workshop

  • 14:30 - 14:45 Break/Snacks

  • 14:45 - 16:30 Group Work and Wrap-Up

Thursday July 25, 2024 - Digital Surveys and Experiments

  • 10:00 – Continental Breakfast

  • 10:30 - 11:00 - Intro to Surveys (Kat)

  • 11:00-12:00 - Heather Kleider Offutt Research talk

  • 12:00 - 13:00 Lunch

  • 13:00 - 14:00 Gamifying Surveys & Group work introduction (Kat)

  • 14:30 - 14:45 Break/Snacks

  • 14:45 - 16:30 Group Work and Wrap-Up

Friday July 26, 2024 - Lightning Talks/Design Sprint

  • 10:00 – Continental Breakfast

  • 10:30 - 12:00 - Survey Report Outs

  • 12:00 - 13:00 Lunch

  • 13:00 - 14:30 Participant Lightning Talks

  • 14:30 - 14:45 Break/Snacks

  • 14:45 - 16:30 Design Sprint

Saturday July 27, 2024 - Day Off
Sunday July 28, 2024 - Day Off
Monday July 29, 2024 - Group Project Work
Tuesday July 30, 2024 - Group Project Work
Wednesday July 31, 2024 - Group Project Work
Thursday August 1, 2024 - Group Project Work
Friday August 2, 2024 - Group Presentations

  • 10:00 – Continental Breakfast

  • 10:30 - 10:45 - Final Announcements

  • 11:00 - Presentations

  • 12:00 - 13:00 Lunch

  • 13:00 - 14:30 Presentations

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