Zürich, Switzerland

June 16 - June 29, 2019 | ETH Zürich

Schedule & Materials

Sunday June 16, 2019
  • Participants arrive

Monday June 17, 2019 - Introduction and Ethics
  • 11:00 - 12:15 Apéro

  • 12:15 - 12:50 Introduction to the course

  • 13:00 - 13:50 Participants’ small talks (5 people)

  • 13:50 - 14:20 Lunch

  • 14:20 - 15:10 Participants’ small talks (5 people)

  • 15:30 - 18:30 Introduction and Ethics (live From Princeton)

  • 22:00 - 23:30 Guest speaker: Alondra Nelson (live From Princeton)

Tuesday June 18, 2019 - Collecting Digital Trace Data
  • 12:15 - 13:05 Participants’ small talks (5 people)

  • 13:05 - 13:35 Lunch

  • 13:35 - 14:25 Participants’ small talks (5 people)

  • 14:35 - 15:05 Discussion and feedback

  • 15:15 - 18:30 Collecting Digital Trace Data (live From Princeton)

  • 22:00 - 23:30 Guest speaker: Beth Noveck (live From Princeton)

Wednesday June 19, 2019 - Automated Text Analysis
  • 12:15 - 13:45 Introduction to Natural Language Processing (NLP) : Kornélia Papp

  • 13:45 - 14:15 Lunch

  • 14:15 - 15:00 Discussion of the previous day’s lecture and materials

  • 15:15 - 18:30 Automated Text Analysis (live From Princeton)

  • 18:30 - 20:00 Guest Speaker: Jennifer Pan (live From Princeton)

Thursday June 20, 2019 - Surveys in the Digital Age
  • 12:15 - 13:45 Data Science for Law and Political Economy : Elliott Ash

  • 13:45 - 14:15 Lunch

  • 14:15 - 15:00 Discussion of the previous day’s lecture and materials

  • 15:15 - 18:30 Surveys in the Digital Age (live From Princeton)

  • 21:15 - 21:45 Surveys in the Digital Age (live From Princeton)

  • 22:00 - 23:30 Guest speaker: Justin Grimmer (live From Princeton)

Friday June 21, 2019 - Mass Collaboration
  • 12:15 - 13:00 Discussion of the previous day’s lecture and materials

  • 13:00 - 13:30 Lunch

  • 13:30 - 15:00 Guest speaker : Dirk Helbing

  • 15:15 - 17:30 Mass collaboration (live From Princeton)

  • 22:00 - 23:30 Guest speaker: Annie Liang (live From Princeton)

Saturday June 22, 2019 - Experiments
  • 12:15 - 13:45 Introduction to Distributed Computing : Roger Wattenhofer

  • 13:45 - 14:05 Lunch

  • 14:05 - 15:00 Group allocation and mturk task discussion

  • 15:15 - 17:00 Experiments (live From Princeton)

  • 17:15 - 18:15 High-throughput behavioral science using virtual labs by guest speaker Abdullah Almaatouq (SICSS 2017) (live From Princeton)

Sunday June 23, 2019 - Day off
Monday June 24, 2019 - Work on group projects
  • 12:15 - 13:45 Introduction to Machine Learning : Elena Labzina (Workshop Part 1)

  • 13:45 - 14:15 Lunch

  • 14:15 - 15:00 Project progress discussion

  • 18:30 - 19:30 Guest speaker: Eric Schwartz (Editorial Director, Columbia University Press) (live From Princeton)

Tuesday June 25, 2019 - Work on group projects
  • 12:15 - 13:45 Introduction to Machine Learning : Elena Labzina (Workshop Part 2)

  • 13:45 - 14:15 Lunch

  • 14:15 - 15:00 Project progress discussion

  • 18:30 - 20:00 Guest speaker: Chris Wiggins (live From Princeton)

Wednesday June 26, 2019 - Work on group projects
  • 12:15 - 13:45 Improving refugee integration through data-driven algorithmic assignment : Dominik Hangartner

  • 13:45 - 14:15 Lunch

  • 14:15 - 15:00 Project progress discussion

Thursday June 27, 2019 - Work on group projects
  • 12:15 - 13:45 Introduction to statistical models for social network analysis : Christoph Stadtfeld

  • 13:45 - 14:15 Lunch

  • 14:15 - 15:00 Does Politicized Media Distort Political Discourse? Evidence from U.S Cable News Channels : Elena Labzina

Friday June 28, 2019 - Present group projects
  • 10:30 - 13:45 Project presentations

  • 13:45 - 16:00 Final Lunch and concluding remarks

Saturday June 29, 2019
  • Participants depart

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