SICSS-WITS-StAndrews

09:00-09:30 Welcome to SICSS-WitsStAndrews

09:30-11:00 Introduction to Computational Social Science

Required Readings:

• Computational social science and sociology
• Computational social science: Obstacles and opportunities
• Leveraging digital and computational demography for policy insights
• Digital and computational demography
• Demography in the digital era: New data sources for population research

11:00-13:00 Tutorial: R for CSS

13:00-14:00 Lunch

14:00-16:00 Tutorial: R for CSS

09:00-09:15 Housekeeping and Announcements.

09:15-10:30 Research Happy Hour

Required Readings:

• North and South: Naming practices and the hidden dimension of global disparities in knowledge production
• The demography of the peripatetic researcher: Evidence on highly mobile scholars from the Web of Science
• Global patterns of migration of scholars with economic development
• A bibliometric analysis of COVID-19 research in Africa
• A bibliometric analysis of childhood immunization research productivity in Africa since the onset of the Expanded Program on Immunization in 1974

10:30-11:30 An Introduction to Bibliometrics

11:30-13:00 Tutorials

13:00-14:00 Lunch

14:00-16:00 Group Exercises

09:00-09:15 Housekeeping and Announcements.

09:15-10:30 Research Happy Hour

Required Readings:

• Can a 280-character message explain stock returns? Evidence from South Africa
• Characterising different communities of Twitter users: Migrants and natives
• Comparing and combining sentiment analysis methods
• Twitter-mediated enterprise–customer communication: Case of electricity distribution services in a developing country
• Systematic delineation of media polarity on COVID-19 vaccines in Africa: Computational linguistic modeling study

10:30-13:00 Tutorials

• An Introduction to Text Analysis Watch video on Youtube, Slides, Annotated Code
• Text Analysis Basics Watch video on Youtube, Slides, Annotated Code
• Dictionary-Based Text Analysis Watch video on Youtube, Slides, Annotated Code
• Topic Models Watch video on Youtube, Slides, Annotated Code

13:00-14:00 Invited Talk: Emotional Reactions Towards Vaccination During the Emergence of the Omicron Variant: Insights from Twitter Analysis in South Africa

14:00-15:00 Lunch

15:00-16:00 Group Exercises

09:00-09:15 Housekeeping and Announcements

09:15-10:30 Research Happy Hour

Required Readings:

• A scoping review on the use of machine learning in research on social determinants of health: Trends and research prospects
• Predicting the vulnerability of women to intimate partner violence in South Africa: Evidence from tree-based machine learning techniques
• Using Machine learning algorithms to predict the state of financial inclusion in Africa
• Use of machine learning techniques to identify HIV predictors for screening in sub-Saharan Africa
• Machine learning algorithms for predicting undernutrition among under-five children in Ethiopia

10:30-11:00 Flash Talk: Can we Predict Artistic Success?

11:30-13:00 Tutorial: Machine Learning for Beginners

13:00-14:00 Lunch

14:00-16:00 Group Exercises

09:00-09:15 Housekeeping and Announcements.

09:15-10:00 An introduction to group projects.

10:00-13:00 Group Exercises

13:00-14:00 Lunch

14:00-16:00 Group Exercises

09:00-09:15 Housekeeping and Announcements.

09:15-13:00 Group Exercises

13:00-14:00 Lunch

14:00-16:00 Group Exercises

09:15-13:00 Group Exercises

13:00-14:00 Lunch

14:00-16:00 Group Exercises

09:15-13:00 Group Exercises

13:00-14:00 Lunch

14:00-16:00 Group Exercises

09:15-13:00 Group Exercises

13:00-14:00 Lunch

14:00-16:00 Group Exercises