Dates: October 21st to 29th, 2024 | Location: Barcelona | Universitat de Barcelona
9:00 - 9:30 Intro to SICSS Logistics
9:30 - 10:15 Computational Social Science 101
10:15 - 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:30 Political polarization
11:30 - 12:00 Methods - overview
12:00 - 13:30 Group Exercise - introductions
13:30 - 14:30 Lunch
14:30 - 15:30 Keynote speech
15:30 - 16:30 Research design
16:30 - 17:00 Q&A
9:00 - 9:30 Web scrapping
9:30 - 10:15 Web scrapping - practice
10:15 - 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:30 APIs
11:30 - 12:00 APIs - practice
12:00 - 13:30 Political polarization - empirical evidence and data sources
13:30 - 14:30 Lunch
14:30 - 15:30 Applied CSS
15:30 - 16:30 Group Exercise - Research Speed Dating
16:30 - 17:00 Group Exercise - Project Group Formation
9:00 - 9:30 Text-as-data
9:30 - 10:15 Text-as-data - practice
10:15 - 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:30 NLP
11:30 - 12:00 NLP - practice
12:00 - 13:30 Measuring Political polarization
13:30 - 14:30 Lunch
14:30 - 15:30 Digital Trace Data
15:30 - 16:30 Group Exercise - Research design
16:30 - 17:00 Group Exercise
9:00 - 9:30 Causal analysis 101
9:30 - 10:15 Causal analysis - examples
10:15 - 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:30 SNA
11:30 - 12:00 SNA - practice
12:00 - 13:30 Political polarization Research challenges
13:30 - 14:30 Lunch
14:30 - 15:30 Group Exercise
15:30 - 16:30 Group Exercise
16:30 - 17:00 Group Exercise
9:00 - 9:30 Applied CSS
9:30 - 10:15 Applied CSS
10:15 - 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:30 Group presentations
11:30 - 12:00 Group presentations
12:00 - 13:30 Group presentations
13:30 - 14:30 Lunch
14:30 - 15:30 Group presentations
15:30 - 16:30 Group presentations
16:30 - 17:00 Wrap Up
10:30 - 12:00 Keynote speech - David Lazer
12:00 – 13:00 Visit to the MareNostrum - Barcelona Supercomputing Center
You can host a partner location of the Summer Institutes of Computational Social Science (SICSS) at your university, company, NGO, or government agency.