June 16 to June 27, 2025 | AICAD, Kenya
Registration
Opening/Welcoming Session - Introduction of Participants
Tea Break
Research Speed Dating: Getting to know you and your research - Dr Mary Muyonga
Lunch break
R programming – Computer set up/packages - Dr. Amos Langat, PAUSTI
Setting up Git Hub/Slack and harmonizing expectations - Dr. Amos Langat, PAUSTI
Slack Help: Getting Started
Tea Break
Introduction to Computational Social Sciences - Professor Chris Bail, Founder of SICSS and Professor at the Duke Sanford School of Public Policy, USA
Research Happy Hour - Dr Mary Muyonga
Tea Break
R Data Sources and Types and Applying R in Social Research - Dr Amos Langat, PAUSTI
Students Practical Session
Lunch Break
New Methods of Social Science Research in the Digital Age - Dr Emmanuel Ọlámíjùwọ́n, St Andrews University, UK
Tea break
Meta AI and Data for Good & Meta Content Library - Meaghan Waff, Meta AI and Data for Good; Yair Rubinstein, Meta Content Library
Research Happy Hour - Dr. Mary Muyonga
Tea Break
Web Harvesting Using R - Dr. Amos Langat
Lunch
Practical Sessions
Tea Break
Research Happy Hour - Dr Mary Muyonga
Tea Break
Text as Data (Introduction to Text Analysis) - Dr. Amos Langat
Paper presentation: Sentiment Analysis-based Stock Market Prediction - Tiyapo Lydia Chimbaira, African Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cameroun
Lunch Break
Practical Session
Tea Break
Research Happy Hour - Dr Mary Muyonga
Tea Break
Introduction to Machine Learning - Professor Saralees Nadarajah, University of Manchester, UK
Q & A /Practical Session
Lunch break
Machine Learning Practical Session - Dr. Amos Langat
Tea Break
Research Happy Hour - Dr. Mary Muyonga
Tea Break
Social Media Polarization - Podcast: Social Media Polarization with Prof. Chris Bail
Practical session - Dr Amos Langat
Lunch Break
Ethics in Computational Social Science - Professor Chris Bail (Video courtesy of SICSS YouTube channel)
Tea Break
Artificial Intelligence and Computational Social Science - Dr. Blessing Ogbuokiri, Brocke University, Ontario, Canada
Group Projects
Group Projects
Group Projects – Presentations
Group Projects – Presentations
Tea Break
Group Projects – Presentations
Lunch
Closing Ceremony
You can host a partner location of the Summer Institutes of Computational Social Science (SICSS) at your university, company, NGO, or government agency.