SICSS-Berlin

July 8 to July 18, 2024 | WZB Berlin Social Science Center

Schedule & Materials

Additional material

Timetable and material is available at GitHub.

Monday July 8, 2024 - On-Bording

09:00 - 10:30 Introduction, Room Tour, and Speeddating
10:30 - 12:30 Collaborating using Git
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 15:00 Software setup
15:00 - 16:30 Ethics (with Chaewon Yun
16:30 - 18:00 Welcome Pizza

Tuesday July 9, 2024 - Collection web data

09:00 - 10:30 Input
10:30 - 12:30 Exercises I
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 15:00 Exercises II
15:00 - 16:30 Ethics (with Chaewon Yun)
15:00 - 16:30 Speaker: Clara Bersch

Wednesday July 10, 2024 - Cleaning textual data

09:00 - 10:30 Input
10:30 - 12:30 Exercises
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 15:00 Regular Expressions

Thursday July 11, 2024 - Text Analysis I (count base methods)

09:00 - 10:00 Input I
10:00 - 11:30 Exercises I
11:30 - 12:30 Input II
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 15:00 Exercises II
15:00 - 16:30 Group findings

Friday July 12, 2024 - Text analysis II (embeddings and LLMs)

09:00 - 11:00 Input
11:00 - 12:30 Exercises
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 15:00 Exercises and Solutions

Monday July 15, 2024 - Group projects I

09:00 - 09:30 Project status update
09:30 - 12:30 Group Project
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 15:00 Group Project
15:00 - 16:30 Speaker: Miriam Schirmer

Tuesday July 16, 2024 - Group projects II

09:00 - 09:30 Project status update
09:30 - 12:30 Group Project
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 15:00 Group Project
15:00 - 16:30 Speaker: Sophia Hunger

Wednesday July 17, 2024 - Group projects III

09:00 - 09:30 Project status update
09:30 - 12:30 Group Project
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 16:30 Group Project
16:30 - 18:30 Farewell Dinner

Thursday July 18, 2024 - Group projects presentations

09:00 - 09:30 Project status update
09:30 - 12:30 Presentation preparation
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 16:00 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.