Princeton University

Opening Dinner (Not open to public/No livestream)

9:00 - 9:15 Logistics (Not open to public/No livestream)

9:15 - 9:30 Introductions (Not open to public/No livestream)

9:30 - 10:00 Introduction to computational social science Video, Slides

10:00 - 10:30 Why SICSS? Video, Slides

10:30 - 10:45 Coffee Break

10:45 - 11:30 Ethics: Principles-based approach Video, Slides

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

12:15 - 12:30 Introduction to the group exercise Video, Slides

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

1:30 - 3:45 Group exercise Case study 1 Case study 2 (Not open to public/No livestream)

3:45 - 4:00 Break

4:00 - 5:30 Guest speaker: Alondra Nelson. To Secure Knowledge: Social Science Partnerships for the Common Good

6:00 - 7:30 Dinner & discussion (Not open to public/No livestream)

9:00 - 9:15 Logistics (Not open to public/No livestream)

9:15 - 9:30 What is digital trace data? Video, Slides

9:30 - 9:45 Strengths and weakness of digital trace data Video, Slides, Annotated Code

9:45 - 10:15 Screen-Scraping Video, Slides, Annotated Code

10:15 - 10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 - 11:00 Application Programming Interfaces Video, Slides, Annotated Code

11:00 - 12:30 Building Apps and Bots for Social Science Research Video, Slides, Annotated Code

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: Beth Noveck. Video, CrowdLaw: Computational Social Science, Governments, and Democracy

6:00 - 7:30 Dinner & Discussion (Not open to public/No livestream)

9:00 - 9:15 Logistics (Not open to public/No livestream)

9:15 - 9:30 History of quantitative text analysis Video, Slides

9:30 - 9:45 Basic Text Analysis/GREP Video, Slides, Annotated Code

10:15 - 11:15 Topic models/Structural Topic Models (Guest Lecture by Brandon Stewart) Video, Slides from Brandon, Slides from Chris, Annotated Code from Chris

11:15 - 11:30 Break

11:30 - 12:00 Dictionary-Based Text Analysis Video, Slides, Annotated Code

12:00 - 12:30 Text Networks Video, Slides, Annotated Code

12:30 - 2:00 Lunch and Guest Speaker: Jennifer Pan. What I Have Learned About Trying to Publish Computational Social Science Papers

2:00 - 2:15 Break

2:15 - 5:30 Group Exercise (Not open to public/No livestream)

6:00 - 7:30 Dinner & Discussion (Not open to public/No livestream)

9:00 - 9:15 Logistics (Not open to public/No livestream)

9:15 - 9:35 Survey research in the digital age Video, Slides

9:35 - 9:55 Probability and non-probability sampling Video, Slides

9:55 - 10:15 Computer-administered interviews and wiki surveys Video, Slides

10:15 - 10:35 Combining surveys and big data Video, Slides

10:35 - 10:45 Coffee break

10:45 - 11:15 Group exercise introduction Video, Slides

11:15 - 12:30 Begin group exercise Exercise, Optional datasets: Survey data, post-stratification data (Not open to public/No livestream)

12:30 - 1:30 Lunch

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

3:15 - 3:45 Discuss activity and open-source data (Not open to public/No livestream) Slides

3:45 - 4:00 Break

4:00 - 5:30 Guest speaker: Justin Grimmer. Video, Causal Inference with Latent Variables

6:00 - 7:30 Dinner & Discussion (Not open to public/No livestream)

9:00 - 9:15 Logistics (Not open to public/No livestream)

9:15 - 9:45 Mass collaboration Video, Slides

9:45 - 10:15 The Fragile Families Challenge Video, Slides

10:15 - 10:30 Coffee break

10:30 - 11:30 Participating in the Fragile Families Challenge Activity Video, Slides

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

12:30 - 1:30 Lunch

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: Annie Liang. Predicting and Understanding Initial Play Video

6:00 - 7:30 Dinner & Discussion (Not open to public/No livestream)

9:00 - 9:15 Logistics (Not open to public/No livestream)

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

9:30 - 9:45 Moving beyond simple experiments Video, Slides

9:45 - 10:15 Four strategies for making experiments happen Video, Slides

10:15 - 10:30 Coffee break

10:30 - 11:00 Zero variable cost data and musiclab Video, Slides

11:00 - 11:15 Break

11:15 - 12:15 Guest speaker: Abdullah Almaatouq (SICSS 2017) Video, High-throughput behavioral science using virtual labs

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

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

Afternoon off

9:00 - 9:15 Logistics (Not open to public/No livestream)

9:15 - 12:30 Research Speed Dating (Not open to public/No livestream)

12:30 - 1:30 Lunch and guest speaker: Eric Schwartz (Editorial Director, Columbia University Press). Why and How to Publish a Book with a University Press. Video, Slides

4:00 - 4:15 Flash talk: Kevin Munger, Digital Literacy and Sampling Slides

4:15 - 4:30 Flash talk: Steph Teeple, Electronic medical records 101 Slides

4:30 - 4:45 Flash talk: Jaren Haber, Web-Scraping a Mess in Python Slides

4:45 - 5:00 Flash talk: Jae Kim, 3 Tips to Teach Computational Social Science

5:00 - 5:15 Flash talk: Keng-Chi Chang

5:15 - 5:30 Flash talk: Tom Davidson, An intro to automated hate speech detection

6:00 - 7:30 Dinner & Discussion (Not open to public/No livestream)

12:30 - 2:00 Lunch and Guest Speaker: Chris Wiggins. What should future statisticians CEOs, and senators know about the history and ethics of data? Video, Slides

4:00 - 4:15 Flash talk: Nick Camp Reverse Correlation: A Data-Driven Approach to the Content of Mental Representations Slides

4:15 - 4:30 Flash talk: Austin van Loon, Computational Analysis of Network Data Slides

4:30 - 4:45 Flash talk: Amin Rahimian, Learning from Feedback Generated on Social Networks

4:45 - 5:00 Flash talk: Yuan Yuan Identifying Causality in Large-Scale Online Observational Data

5:00 - 5:15 Flash talk: Nynke Niezink Network analysis: A talk about assumptions

5:15 - 5:30 Flash talk: Alex Kindel, Code as Data

6:00 - 7:30 Dinner & Discussion (Not open to public/No livestream)

12:30 - 1:30 Multi-site panel discuss about navigating the job market featuring Chris Bail, Karen Davis, Ridhi Kashyap, and Matti Nelimarkka (moderator: Matt Salganik) Video

6:00 - 7:30 Dinner & Discussion (Not open to public/No livestream)

12:30 - 12:45 Flash Talk: Monika Leszczynska, CSS & Legal Studies

12:45 - 1:00 Flash Talk: Florianne Verkroost, Monitoring global professional gender gaps using LinkedIn’s digital census

1:00 - 1:15 Flash Talk: Victoria Asbury

1:15 - 1:30 Flash Talk: William Frey, Formerly gang-involved youth as domain experts Slides

1:30 - 1:45 Flash Talk: Brooke Jarrett, Infectious Disease Dynamics

6:00 - 7:30 Dinner & Discussion (Not open to public/No livestream)

12:30 - 1:00 School Websites and Racial Meanings: Evidence from Computational Text Analysis and Online Experiments: Nick Camp, Jae Yeon Kim, and Jaren Haber

1:00 - 1:30 By the Light of a Dumpster Fire: Consuming Political Media with a Live Comment Section: Victoria Asbury, Keng-Chi Chang, Katie McCabe, Kevin Munger and Tiago Ventura

1:30 - 2:00 *Large Scale Scraping of Advocacy Group Press Releases *: Felix Busch and Tom Wolff

2:00 - 2:30 Not in my House? A Big Data Approach to the Impact of Non-discrimination Policy on a Homesharing Policy: Andrew Thompson, Monika Leszczynska, Malka Guillot

2:30 - 3:00 Perceived Facial Similarity and Upstream Indirect Reciprocity: Margaret Ng and Yuan Yuan

3:00 - 3:30 Coffee Break

3:30 - 4:00 The Effect of Departmental Stocks on Academic Collaboration Patterns: Bedoor AlShebli, Nynke Niezink, Amin Rahimian, Sarah Rezaei, Florianne Verkroost

3:30 - 4:00 What is Whiteness?: Naniette Coleman, Masyhur Hilmy, Stephanie Teeple, William Frey

4:30 - 5:00 Anti- anti-vaccine: Toward a digital intervention: Karina Caro, Brooke Jarrett, Elizaveta Sivak

5:00 - 5:30 Populism in the Lab: Anton Gollwitzer, Austin van Loon, Tom Davidson

5:30 - 5:45 Evaluations

5:45 Closing dinner and Group Picture (Not open to public/No livestream)

Participants depart