SICSS-CMU

May 12 to May 23, 2025 | Pittsburgh, PA

Schedule & Materials

Monday May 12, 2025 - Welcome and Getting Started
  • 9:30 - 10:00 Coffee and Annoucements

  • 10:00 - 11:00 Welcome and onboarding

  • 11:00 - 12:00 Data Literacies and Ethics with Emily Bongiovanni and Di Yoong

  • 12:00 - 13:00 Lunch/Birds of a Feather meetings

  • 13:00 - 14:00 IRB Presentation with Jennifer Koehrsen Director of IRB & IACUC

  • 14:00 - 15:45 R Review: Warming Up for the Institute with Sarah Young

  • 15:45 - 16:00 Daily Wrap-Up/Q&A

Tuesday May 13, 2025 - Text as Data
  • 9:30 - 10:00 Coffee and Annoucements

  • 10:00 - 12:00 Text Analysis: Sentiment Analysis with Kristen Scotti

  • 12:00 - 12:30 Lunch

  • 12:30 - 13:30 Lunch Talk with Nynke Niezink

  • 13:30 - 15:15 Text Analysis: Topic Modeling with Kristen Scotti

  • 15:15 - 15:45 Group Speed-Dating I

  • 15:45 - 16:00 Daily Wrap-Up/Q&A

Wednesday May 14, 2025 - Social Network Analysis
  • 9:30 - 10:00 Coffee and Annoucements

  • 10:00 - 12:00 Social Network Analysis I with Scott Renshaw

  • 12:00 - 12:30 Lunch

  • 12:30 - 13:30 Lunch Talk with Lynnette Ng

  • 13:30 - 15:15 Social Network Analysis II with Scott Renshaw

  • 15:15 - 15:45 Group Speed-Dating II

  • 15:45 - 16:00 Daily Wrap-Up/Q&A

Thursday May 15, 2025 - Data Visualization and Conversations on Generative AI/LLMs
  • 9:30 - 10:00 Coffee and Annoucements

  • 10:00 - 12:00 Data Visualization with Emma Slayton

  • 12:00 - 12:30 Lunch

  • 12:30 - 13:30 Lunch Talk with Bill Sermons

  • 13:30 - 14:30 Data Visualization in R Shiny with Emma Slayton

  • 14:30 - 15:45 Roundtable: Generative AI/LLMs in Research with Haoyong Lan

  • 15:45 - 16:00 Daily Wrap-Up/Q&A

Friday May 16, 2025 - Dealing with Real World Data and Doing Computational Social Experiments
  • 9:30 - 10:00 Coffee and Annoucements

  • 10:00 - 12:00 Planning with/for Data Errors with Corina Paraschiv

  • 12:00 - 13:00 Lunch

  • 13:00 - 14:00 Project Idea Generation/Discussion Activity

  • 14:00 - 15:45 Computational Social Experiments with Hirokazu Shirado

  • 15:45 - 16:00 Daily Wrap-Up/Q&A

Week 2 - Group project proposal and/or a pilot project
Monday May 19, 2025 - Collecting Data, Navigating Databases
  • 9:30 - 10:00 Coffee and Annoucements

  • 10:00 - 11:00 Data Collection: Surveys and Interviews with Sarah Young and Di Yoong

  • 11:00 - 12:00 Data and Databases with Librarians

  • 12:00 - 13:00 Lunch

  • 13:00 - 15:45 TBC

  • 15:45 - 16:00 Daily Wrap-Up/Q&A

Tuesday May 20, 2025 - Finding your Data
  • 9:30 - 10:00 Coffee and Annoucements

  • 10:00 - 11:00 Morning talk with Vernelle Noel

  • 11:00 - 12:00 Project Group Data Exploration

  • 12:00 - 13:00 Lunch

  • 13:00 - 15:45 Project Group Data Exploration: Finalizing project research goals

  • 15:45 - 16:00 Check-out

Wednesday May 21, 2025 - Trying out your Methods
  • 9:30 - 10:00 Coffee and Annoucements

  • 10:00 - 11:00 Morning talk with Eleanor Mattern

  • 11:00 - 12:00 Project Group Method Exploration

  • 12:00 - 13:00 Lunch

  • 13:00 - 15:45 Project Group Method Exploration: Finalizing methods and provide rationale

  • 15:45 - 16:00 Check-out

Thursday May 22, 2025 - Experiment with your Visualization
  • 9:30 - 10:00 Coffee and Annoucements

  • 10:00 - 11:00 Morning talk with Partick Park

  • 11:00 - 12:00 Project Group Visualization Exploration

  • 12:00 - 13:00 Lunch

  • 13:00 - 15:45 Project Group Visualization Exploration: Prepating for presentation

  • 15:45 - 16:00 Check-out

Friday May 23, 2025 - Group Presentations and Staying Connected
  • 9:30 - 10:00 Coffee and Annoucements

  • 10:00 - 10:30 Project Group Final Preparation

  • 10:30 - 12:00 Group Presentations I

  • 12:00 - 13:00 Light Lunch

  • 13:00 - 14:30 Group Presentations II

  • 14:30 - 15:00 Institute Wrap-Up

  • 15:00 Reception and Staying Connected

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