June 15 – June 27, 2025 | Johannesburg, South Africa
09:00-09:30 Welcome to SICSS-WitsStAndrews
09:30-11:00 Introduction to Computational Social Science
Required Readings:
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.
09:15-13:00 Tutorial: Programming with dplyr
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-16:00 Research Happy Hour
Required Readings:
16:00- Tutorial: Introduction to the Tidyverse
09:00-09:15 Housekeeping and Announcements
09:15-13:00 Tutorial: Data Manipulation with dplyr
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:00 Flash Talk: Can we Predict Artistic Success?
15:00-16:00 Research Happy Hour
Required Readings:
16:00- Tutorial: Introduction to Data Visualization with ggplot2
09:00-09:15 Housekeeping and Announcements.
09:15-10:30 Research Happy Hour
Required Readings:
10:30-14:00 Tutorials
14:00-15:00 Lunch
15:00-16:00 Invited Talk: Meta Content Library
09:00-09:15 Housekeeping and Announcements.
09:15-13:00 Tutorial: Bibliometrics Analysis in R
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-16:00 Group Exercises
09:00-09:15 Housekeeping and Announcements.
09:15-13:00 Tutorial: An introduction to machine learning in R
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
You can host a partner location of the Summer Institutes of Computational Social Science (SICSS) at your university, company, NGO, or government agency.