Barcelona

Dates: October 21st to 29th, 2024 | Location: Barcelona | Universitat de Barcelona

Schedule & Materials

Monday October 21, 2024 - Day 1
  • 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

Tuesday October 22, 2024 - Day 2
  • 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

Wednesday October 23, 2024 - Day 3
  • 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

Thursday October 24, 2024 - Day 4
  • 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

Friday October 25, 2024 - Day 5
  • 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

Monday October 28, 2024 - Day 6
  • 10:30 - 12:00 Keynote speech - David Lazer

  • 12:00 – 13:00 Visit to the MareNostrum - Barcelona Supercomputing Center

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