Welcome to the online materials for our Summer Institute for Computational Social Science (SICSS) hosted in Aachen & Graz in July 2022.
- Lecture by Ivan Smirnov: “What is computational social science (CSS) really?” [slides] [lecture recording] [exercise] [exercise introduction recording] [exercise solutions]
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Lecture by Jana Lasser: “Harnessing web scraping and APIs to collect data” [slides] [API lecture recording] [web-scraping lecture recording] [exercise] [exercise solutions] [API access code snippets] [web scraping code snippets]
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Guest lecture by Anna Di Natale: “How to use Amazon Mechanical Turk [slides] [handout] [lecture recording]
- Guest lecture by David Garcia: “Combining surveys and big data” [slides] [lecture recording] [exercise] [exercise recording]
- Guest lecture by Markus Strohmaier “Introduction to networks in CSS” [slides] [lecture recording] [exercise] [exercise introduction recording] [exercise solution]
- Lecture by Ivan Smirnov: “How to write a (good!) CSS paper” [slides] [lecture recording part 1] [lecture recording part 2]
- Lecture by Jana Lasser: “Visualize your data: DOs and DON’Ts” [slides] [lecture recording] [exercise introduction] [exercise] [exercise solution] [plotting code snippets]
- Lecture by Ivan Smirnov: “Potential pitfalls and problems for awesome CSS projects” [lecture recording]
- Lecture by Jana Lasser and David Garcia: “Ethical dimensions of CSS research” [lecture recording] [slides ethics] [readings ethics] [slides representation] [slides measurement issues]
- Guest lecture by Suhem Parack: “Introduction to using the Twitter API to collect insane amounts of data” [lecture recording] [exercise]
- Lecture by Chris Bail "New Platforms for Studying Social Media & Polarization" [lecture recording]
- Lecture by Roberta Sinatra "Quantifying the dynamics of impact in science and art" [lecture recording]
- Lecture by Alina Arseniev-Koehler "Integrating Topic Modeling and Word Embedding to Characterize Violent Deaths" [lecture recording] [materials], [reading 1], [reading 2].
- Is sentiment in the news becoming more negative over time? by Caio Mello, Elçin Istif Inci and Nick Lewis.
- US abortion policy on Twitter by Martin Faschingbaumer, Anna Pavlova, Nikita Olefir and Muhammad Zahidul Islam Miaji.