Iceland

August 5th to August 16th, 2024 | Iceland | University of Iceland

Schedule & Materials

Monday August 5, 2024 - The pre-night

17:30 - 19:00 Voluntary pre-SICSS meeting

Tuesday August 6, 2024 - Starting of SICSS (Oddi 206)

9:00 - 10:15 SICSS and participant introduction introduction
10:15 - 10:45 Ethics chapter review
10:45 - 11:45 Ethics chapter exercise
11:45 - 13:45 Lunch
13:45 - 14:15 Validity and reliability chapter review
14:15 - 15:00 Validity and reliability conceptual exercise
15:00 - 16:30 Software libraries, exercises
16:30 - 17:00 Day wrapup

Wednesday August 7, 2024 - Data Science (Oddi 206)

9:00 - 9:30 Day kickoff and chapter revise exercise
9:30 - 12:00 Conceptual exercise
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch
13:00 - 13:30 Introduction to programming task
13:30 - 16:00 Working on programming tasks (including break)
16:00 - 16:30 Day wrapup
16:45 - 17:00 Voluntary: Review of interactive systems
17:00 - 17:30 Voluntary: Interactive systems, Conceptual exercise (Part I)

Thursday August 8, 2024 - Network Analysis (Oddi 206)

9:00 - 9:30 Day kickoff and chapter revise exercise
9:30 - 12:00 Conceptual exercise
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch
13:00 - 13:30 Introduction to programming task
13:30 - 16:00 Working on programming tasks (including break)
16:00 - 16:30 Day wrapup
16:45 - 17:30 Voluntary: Interactive systems, Conceptual exercise (Part II)

Friday August 9, 2024 - Simulation models and complex systems (Oddi 206)

9:00 - 9:30 Day kickoff and chapter revise exercise
9:30 - 12:00 Conceptual exercise
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch
13:00 - 13:30 Introduction to programming task
13:30 - 15:00 Working on programming tasks (including break)
15:00 - 16:00 Group work teaming and ideation
16:00 - 17:00 Chris Bail: Can Generative AI improve social science?

Monday August 12, 2024 - Project work (Oddi 206)

9:00 - 10:00 Meeting with each team
10:00 - 16:00 Group work
16:00 - 17:00 David Reimer: Every Break You Take - Advancing Seasonal Comparison Research with Digital Trace Data

Tuesday August 13, 2024 - Project work (Oddi 206)

9:00 - 10:00 Meeting with each team
10:00 - 16:00 Group work
16:00 - 17:00 Adeline Clarke: Finnsurvey text and analysing open ended surveys

Wednesday August 14, 2024 - Project work (Oddi 206)

9:00 - 10:00 Meeting with each team
16:00 - 17:00 Matti Nelimarkka: Marxist LLM
10:00 - 17:00 Group work

Thursday August 15, 2024 - Project work (Stapi 107)

9:00 - 10:00 Meeting with each team
10:00 - 17:00 Group work

Friday August 16, 2024 - Presentations and wrap-up (Stapi 107)

9:00 - 12:00 Group work
12:00 - 15:00 Presentations and wraup

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