Princeton University

June 18, 2017 - July 1, 2017 | Princeton University

Schedule & Materials

Sunday June 18, 2017
  • Opening Dinner

Monday June 19, 2017 - Introduction and Ethics
  • 9:00-9:15 Logistics (No livestream)

  • 9:15-9:30 Introduction to computational social science slides, video

  • 9:30-9:45 Why SICSS? slides, video

  • 9:45-10:00 Introductions

  • 10:00-10:45 Ethics: Principles-based approach slides, video

  • 10:45-11:00 Coffee Break

  • 11:00-12:00 Four areas of difficulty: informed consent, informational risk, privacy, and making decisions in the face of uncertainty slides, video

  • 1:00-4:00 Group Exercise (No livestream) activity

  • 4:00-5:30 Lecture by Michael Macy (No livestream)

  • 6:00-7:30 Dinner & discussion

Tuesday June 20, 2017 - Collecting Digital Trace Data
  • 9:00-9:15 What is digital trace data? slides, video

  • 9:15-9:30 Strengths and weaknesses of digital trace data slides, video

  • 9:30-10:00 Screen-Scraping slides, code, video

  • 10:00-10:15 Break

  • 10:15-11:00 Application Programming Interfaces slides, code, video

  • 11:00-12:00 Apps for Social Science Research slides, video

  • 1:00-4:00 Group Exercise (No livestream)

  • 4:00-5:30 Lecture by Gary King video

  • Dinner & Discussion

Wednesday June 21, 2017 - Automated text analysis
  • 9:00-9:15 History of quantitative text analysis slides, video

  • 9:15-9:30 Strengths and weakenesses of quantitative text analysis slides, video

  • 9:30-9:45 Basic Text Analysis/GREP slides, video

  • 9:45-10:00 Dictionary-Based Text Analysis slides, video

  • 10:00-10:15 Break

  • 10:15-11:00 Topic models and Beyond (Brandon Stewart) slides, code, video

  • 11:00-12:00 Ngram Networks slides, code, data, video

  • 12:00-1:00 Lunch

  • 1:00-4:00 Group Exercise (No livestream)

  • 4:00-5:30 Lecture by Brandon Stewart video

  • Dinner & Discussion

Thursday June 22, 2017 - Surveys
  • 9:00-9:15 Welcome and schedule slides, video

  • 9:15-9:30 Survey research in the digital age slides, video

  • 9:30-10:00 Probability and non-probability sampling slides, video

  • 10:00-10:15 Coffee break

  • 10:15-10:45 Computer-administered interviews and wiki surveys slides, video

  • 10:45-11:00 Combining surveys and big data slides, video

  • 11:00-12:30 Begin group exercise (No livestream) activity

  • 12:30-1:30 Lunch

  • 1:30-3:45 Continue group exercise (No livestream)

  • 3:45-4:00 Break

  • 4:00-5:30 Lecture by Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon video

  • Dinner & Discussion

Friday June 23, 2017 - Mass Collaboration
  • 9:00-9:10 Welcome and schedule slides

  • 9:10-9:30 Mass collaboration slides, video

  • 9:30-9:40 Human computation slides, video

  • 9:40-9:50 Open call slides, video

  • 9:50-10:00 Distributed data collection slides, video

  • 10:00-10:15 Design advice slides, video

  • 10:15-10:30 Coffee break

  • 10:30-4:00 Fragile Families Challenge slides, video

  • 4:00-5:30 Lecture by Markus Mobius video

  • Dinner & Discussion

Saturday June 24, 2017 - Experiments
  • 9:00 - 9:15 Welcome and schedule slides

  • 9:15 - 9:45 What, why, and which experiments? slides, video

  • 9:45 - 10:15 Moving beyond simple experiments slides, video

  • 10:15 - 10:30 Coffee break

  • 10:30 - 11:15 Four strategies for experiments slides, video

  • 11:15 - 11:45 Zero variable cost data and musiclab slides, video

  • 11:45 - 12:15 3 Rs slides, video

  • Lunch

  • Afternoon off

Sunday June 25, 2017 - Day off
Monday June 26, 2017 - Work on projects
Tuesday June 27, 2017 - Work on projects
  • 12:00-12:20 Presentation - Demo / Agent Based Models and Collective Intelligence, Joshua Becker (No live-stream)

  • 12:20-12:40 Presentation - The Wisdom of the Dynamic Network, Abdullah Almaatouq (No live-stream)

  • 12:40-1:00 Presentation - Is the Public Polarized? Ideal Point Estimation using Real-time Debate Reactions, Lisa Argyle (No live-stream)

  • 1:20-1:40 Tutorial - Word2vec, Jeff Jacobs (No live-stream)

  • 1:40-2:00 Tutorial - Dependency Parsing, Elliott Ash (No live-stream)

  • 2:00-2:30 Tutorial - Multi-Wave Field Experiments Over Mechanical Turk, Ethan Porter (No live-stream)

  • 4:00-5:30 Lecture by Winter Mason video

Wednesday June 28, 2017 - Work on projects
  • 12:00-12:20 Presentation - Multiplayer game / Survey on the future of computational social science, Peter Krafft (No live-stream)

  • 12:20-12:40 Presentation - Social network experiment using Mturk and bots, Hirokazu Shirado (No live-stream)

  • 12:40-1:00 Presentation - Using MTurk to Gauge Opinion on Crime and Punishment, Adaner Usmani (No live-stream)

  • 1:30-2:30 Tutorial - How to get started with Python, Charlotte Lloyd (No live-stream)

  • 2:30-3:00 Tutorial - Git and Github, Rochelle Terman (No live-stream)

  • 3:00-3:30 Tutorial - Pre-registration, Peter Krafft (No live-stream)

  • 4:00-5:00 Discussion - Designing a new challenge, Vissého Adjiwanou and Matt Salganik (No live-stream)

  • 6:00 Dinner Dicussion group - Teaching Computational Social Science

Thursday June 29, 2017 - Work on projects
  • 12:00-12:20 Presentation - An Overview of Interpretable Machine Learning, Tong Wang (No live-stream)

  • 12:20-12:40 Presentation - O Interpretable Machine Learning, Where Art Thou?, Bo Cowgill (No live-stream)

  • 12:40-1:00 Presentation - Planning Prompts Increase and Forecast Course Completion in Massive Open Online Courses, Michael Yeomans (No live-stream)

  • 1:00-1:20 Presentation - Asking Sensitive Questions in Surveys, Antje Kirchner (No live-stream)

  • 1:30-1:45 Tutorial - Open Review Toolkit, Matt Salganik (No live-stream)

  • 1:45-2:30 Tutorial - How to get started with STM, Taylor Brown (No live-stream)

  • 4:00-5:30 Lecture by Deborah Estrin video

  • 6:00 Dinner Dicussion groups - (1) Creating Tools for Social Scientists, (2) Issues in Open Source Development and Collaboration, (3) Interpretable Machine Learning

Friday June 30, 2017 - Present final projects
  • The Cultural Roots of Islamophobia, Rochele Terman, Lisa Argyle, Ian Gray, and Matti Nelimarkka

  • Fragile Families- Expert and Lay Opinions, Allie Morgan, Kivan Polimis, Adaner Usmani, Ridhi Kashyap

  • Fragile Families- Data Processing, Antje Kirchner, Anna Filippova, Connor Gilroy

  • Fragile Families- Modeling Strategies, Mike Yeomans, Tong Wang

  • Long Term, Causal Evidence on Evictions (Bo Cowgill) and Getting off Facebook (with Ethan Porter)

  • In search of human nature- Evidence for multilevel in-group preference amongst MTurk workers, Abdullah Almaatouq and Peter Krafft

  • The Future of CSS, Reflecting on Friendship, and Modeling Big Decisions, Peter Krafft

  • Social Dynamics in Scientific Community Networks The Structure – Content Coevolution of Research on CRISPR, Hirokazu Shirado, Moritz Buchi, & Visseho Adjiwanou

  • Ngram2Vec- Constructing Variable-Length Phrase Spaces, Elliott Ash and Jeff Jacobs

  • Highways and Words, Anjali Bhatt and Molly Lewis

  • Can We Reduce Political Polarization Without Communication, Joshua Becker and Ethan Porter

  • Dinner or a Movie? The Discourse of Emotional Labor in the Market for Escort Services, Charlotte Lloyd and Elliott Ash

  • TBD, Kat Albrecht and Maria Rodriguez

Saturday July 1, 2017
  • Students depart

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