May 12 to May 23, 2025 | Pittsburgh, PA
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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