Silberman School of Social Work, Hunter College at the City University of New York

June 17th, 2019 - June 28th, 2019

Schedule & Materials

- This is a living schedule and may be subject to change.
Monday June 17, 2019 - Introduction and Ethics
  • 8:30 - 9:00 Welcome & Breakfast (Not open to public/No livestream)

  • 9:00 - 9:25 Introductions (Not open to public/No livestream)

  • 9:30 - 10:00 Introduction to Computational Social Science

  • 10:00 - 10:30 Why SICSS?

  • 10:30 - 10:45 Coffee Break

  • 10:45 - 11:30 Ethics: Principles-based approach

  • 11:30 - 12:15 Four areas of difficulty: informed consent, informational risk, privacy, and making decisions in the face of uncertainty

  • 12:15 - 12:30 Introduction to the group exercise

  • 12:30 -1:30 Lunch (Not open to public/No livestream)

  • 1:30 - 3:45 Group exercise (Not open to public/No livestream)

  • 3:45 - 4:00 Break

  • 4:00 - 5:30 Guest speaker: Dr. Josh Raines

  • 5:30 - 6:30 Refreshments and Discussion

Tuesday June 18, 2019 - Collecting Digital Trace Data
  • 8:30 - 9:00 Welcome, Breakfast & Logistics (Not open to public/No livestream)

  • 9:15 - 9:30 What is digital trace data?

  • 9:30 - 9:45 Strengths and weakness of digital trace data

  • 9:45 - 10:15 Screen-Scraping

  • 10:15 - 10:30 Coffee Break

  • 10:30 - 11:00 Application Programming Interfaces

  • 11:00 - 12:30 Building Apps and Bots for Social Science Research

  • 12:30 - 1:30 Lunch (Not open to public/No livestream)

  • 1:30 - 3:45 Group Exercise (Not open to public/No livestream)

  • 3:45 - 4:00 Break

  • 4:00 - 5:30 Guest speaker: Dr.Desmond Patton

  • 5:30 - 6:30 Refreshments and Discussion

Wednesday June 19, 2019 - Automated Text Analysis
  • 8:30 - 9:15 Welcome, Breakfast & Logistics (Not open to public/No livestream)

  • 9:15 - 9:30 History of quantitative text analysis

  • 9:30 - 9:45 Basic Text Analysis/GREP

  • 9:45 - 10:00 Dictionary-Based Text Analysis

  • 10:00 - 10:15 Coffee Break

  • 10:15 - 11:15 Topic models/Structural Topic Models

  • 11:15 - 11:20 Break

  • 11:20 - 12:30 Text Networks

  • 12:30 - 1:30 Lunch (Not open to public/No livestream)

  • 1:30 - 4:00 Group Exercise (Not open to public/No livestream)

  • 4:00 - 5:30 Guest speaker: Streamed from Main Site

  • 5:30 - 6:30 Refreshments and Discussion

Thursday June 20, 2019 - Surveys in the Digital Age
  • 8:30 - 9:15 Welcome, Breakfast & Logistics (Not open to public/No livestream)

  • 9:15 - 9:45 Survey research in the digital age

  • 9:45 - 10:15 Probability and non-probability sampling

  • 10:15 - 10:30 Coffee break

  • 10:30 - 11:00 Computer-administered interviews and wiki surveys

  • 11:00 - 11:30 Combining surveys and big data

  • 11:30 - 12:00 Group exercise introduction

  • 12:00 - 12:30 Begin group exercise

  • 12:30 - 1:30 Lunch (Not open to public/No livestream)

  • 1:30 - 3:15 Continue group exercise (Not open to public/No livestream)

  • 3:15 - 3:45 Discuss activity and open-source data

  • 3:45 - 4:00 Break

  • 4:00 - 5:30 Guest speaker: Dr. Melanie Sage

  • 5:30 - 6:30 Refreshments and Discussion

Friday June 21, 2019 - Mass Collaboration
  • 8:30 - 9:15 Welcome, Breakfast & Logistics (Not open to public/No livestream)

  • 9:15 - 9:30 Mass collaboration

  • 9:30 - 9:45 Human computation

  • 9:45 - 10:00 Open call

  • 10:00 - 10:15 Distributed data collection

  • 10:15 - 10:30 Coffee break

  • 10:30 - 11:30 Introduction to the Fragile Families Challenge

  • 11:30 - 12:30 Working on the Fragile Families Challenge (Not open to public/No livestream)

  • 12:30 - 1:30 Lunch (Not open to public/No livestream)

  • 1:30 - 3:30 Fragile Families Challenge (Not open to public/No livestream)

  • 3:30 - 3:45 Discussion of the Fragile Families Challenge (Not open to public/No livestream)

  • 3:45 - 4:00 Break

  • 4:00 - 5:30 Guest speaker: Stream from Main site

  • 5:30 - 6:30 Refreshments and Discussion

Saturday June 22, 2019 - Day Off
Sunday June 23, 2019 - Day Off
Monday June 24, 2019 - Experiments
  • 8:30 - 9:15 Welcome, Breakfast & Logistics (Not open to public/No livestream)

  • 9:15 - 9:30 What, why, and which experiments?

  • 9:30 - 9:45 Moving beyond simple experiments

  • 9:45 - 10:15 Four strategies for experiments

  • 10:15 - 10:30 Coffee break

  • 10:30 - 11:00 Zero variable cost data and musiclab

  • 11:00 - 11:15 Break

  • 11:15 - 12:15 3 Rs

  • 12:15 - 12:30 Logistics (Not open to public/No livestream)

  • 12:30 -1:30 Lunch (Not open to public/No livestream)

  • 1:30 - 3:45 Work on Group Projects (Not open to public/No livestream)

  • 4:00 - 5:30 Guest speaker: Dr. Richard Smith

  • 5:30 - 6:30 Refreshments and Discussion

Tuesday June 25, 2019 - Work on group projects
  • 8:30 - 9:00 Welcome, Breakfast & Logistics (Not open to public/No livestream)

  • 9:00 - 12:15 Work on Group Projects (Not open to public/No livestream)

  • 12:30 -1:30 Lunch adn Flash Talks (Not open to public/No livestream)

  • 1:30 - 3:45 Work on Group Projects (Not open to public/No livestream)

  • 4:00 - 5:30 Guest speaker: Dr. Lauri Goldkind

  • 5:30 - 6:30 Refreshments and Discussion

Wednesday June 26, 2019 - Work on group projects
  • 8:30 - 9:00 Welcome, Breakfast & Logistics (Not open to public/No livestream)

  • 9:00 - 12:15 Work on Group Projects (Not open to public/No livestream)

  • 12:30 -1:30 Lunch and Flash Talks(Not open to public/No livestream)

  • 1:30 - 4:00 Work on Group Projects (Not open to public/No livestream)

Thursday June 27, 2019 - Work on group projects
  • 8:30 - 9:00 Welcome, Breakfast & Logistics (Not open to public/No livestream)

  • 9:00 - 12:15 Work on Group Projects (Not open to public/No livestream)

  • 12:30 -1:30 Lunch and Flash Talks (Not open to public/No livestream)

  • 1:30 - 4:00 Work on Group Projects (Not open to public/No livestream)

Friday June 28, 2019 - Present group projects
  • 8:30 - 9:00 Welcome, Breakfast & Logistics (Not open to public/No livestream)

  • 9:00 - 12:15 Work on Group Projects (Not open to public/No livestream)

  • 12:30 -1:00 Lunch (Not open to public/No livestream)

  • 1:00 - 4:30 Present group projects (Not open to public/No livestream)

  • 4:30 - 6:00 Closing Reception

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