SICSS-Rutgers

June 15 to June 26, 2020 | Rutgers University | Virtual event

Schedule & Materials

Monday June 15, 2020 - Introduction and Ethics
  • 10:30am

    Welcome and Introductions

  • 12:30pm

    Break

  • 1:00pm

    Activity on Ethics

  • 3:00pm

    Debrief

Tuesday June 16, 2020 - Digital Trace Data
  • 10:00am

    Activity on Digital Trace Data

  • 12:15pm

    Group Lunch Discussions

  • 1:30pm

    Applications with Geographic Data (Michael Kenwick)

  • 3:30pm

    Activity on Digital Trace Data

Wednesday June 17, 2020 - Text as Data
  • 10:00am

    Activity using Text as Data

  • 12:00pm

    Break

  • 12:30pm

    Group Lunch Discussions

  • 2:00pm

    Classification and Bias: The Case of Hate Speech Detection Algorithms (Thomas Davidson)

  • 3:30pm

    Break

  • 4:00pm

    Debrief on Text as Data Activity

Thursday June 18, 2020 - Surveys in the Digital Age
  • 10:00am

    Lessons on Machine Learning

  • 12:15pm

    Group Lunch Discussions

  • 1:30pm

    Activity on Surveys in the Ditigal Age

  • 4:00pm

    Polarization and Nationalization of America’s State Parties: An Analysis of State Party Platforms, 1918-2017 (Daniel Hopkins, joint work with Eric Schickler)

Friday June 19, 2020 - Network Analysis
  • 10:00am

    Logistics

  • 10:30am

    Lessons on Network Analysis (with Katherine Ognyanova)

  • 12:30pm

    Break

  • 1:00pm

    Activity using Network Analysis

Monday June 22, 2020 - Experiments in the Digital Age
  • 9:15am

    (Optional) Tutorial on ggplot with Carrie

  • 10:00am

    Activity on Digital Experiments

  • 12:00pm

    Convenience Samples in Experimental Research (Yanna Krupnikov)

  • 2:00pm

    Finalize Groups for Research Projects

  • 4:30pm

    Debrief on group projects

Tuesday June 23, 2020 - Work on Group Projects
  • open morning work time

    Work on Group Projects

  • 9:15am

    (Optional) Tutorial on MTurk with Analia

  • 12:00pm

    Slack a project plan

  • 12:00pm

    Why’s the Power Out? Organizational Responsiveness to Everyday Requests, Questions, and Complaints (Simone Zhang)

  • open afternoon work time

    Work on Group Projects

  • 3:30pm

    (Encouraged) Panel discussion on diversity in computational social science. Register here

Wednesday June 24, 2020 - Work on Group Projects
  • open morning and afternoon work time

    Work on Group Projects

  • 9:30am

    (Optional) Tutorial on Loops (30-40 minutes)

  • 12:30pm

    (Optional) Tutorial- Intro to Screen Scraping (targeted toward beginners)

  • 3:30am

    Slack an update on your group project (e.g., 1 paragraph)

  • 3:30pm

    How to Survey Political Elites (Adam Thal)

Thursday June 25, 2020 - Work on Group Projects
  • open morning work time

    Work on Group Projects

  • 12:00pm

    Slack an update on your group project (e.g., 1 paragraph)

  • 12:00pm

    (Optional) Lunch Discussion with Guest Speaker (Arvind Narayanan)

  • 2:00pm

    (Encouraged) What Can the SICSS Community Do to Recognize and Eradicate Anti-Black Racism in Computational Social Science? Register here

  • open afternoon work time

    Work on Group Projects

Friday June 26, 2020 - Present Group Projects
  • 10:00am

    Presentations

  • TBD

    Closing Session

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