Symposia

New Directions in Computational Social Science & Data Science

Apr 25, 2016 to Apr 26, 2016

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Click on the titles of individual talks for abstract and archived video (available approximately one week after the conclusion of the workshop).

Please note that this schedule is subject to change. All events take place in the Calvin Lab Auditorium.

Monday, April 25th, 2016
8:30 am–9:00 am		Coffee & Check-In
9:00 am–9:30 am		Should Social Science Be Problem Oriented? Duncan Watts, Microsoft Research
9:30 am–10:00 am		Peer Effects, Social Influence and Population Scale Behavior Change Sinan Aral, MIT
10:00 am–10:30 am		Discussant-Led Discussion
10:30 am–11:00 am		Break
11:00 am–11:30 am		What the Crowd Knows About the Crowd Matthew Jackson, Stanford University
11:30 am–12:00 pm		Discovery of Treatments from Text Corpora Justin Grimmer, Stanford University
12:00 pm–12:30 pm		Discussant-Led Discussion
12:30 pm–2:00 pm		Lunch
2:00 pm–2:30 pm		Communication Networks and Large-Scale Coordination (or Can We Use Social Media as an Early-Warning Device?) Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon, University of Pennsylvania
2:30 pm–3:00 pm		The Fragility of Organizations: A Simulation and Empirical Examples Bruce Kogut, Columbia Business School
3:00 pm–3:30 pm		Break
3:30 pm–4:00 pm		Understanding Social Behavior During Crisis Events using Digital Traces Emma Spiro, University of Washington
4:00 pm–4:30 pm		Discussant-Led Discussion
4:30 pm–5:30 pm		Panel Discussion

Tuesday, April 26th, 2016
8:30 am–9:00 am		Coffee & Check-In
9:00 am–9:30 am		Counterfactual Inference Using Behavioral Models: An Application to Search Advertising Susan Athey, Stanford University
9:30 am–10:00 am		Creating the Third Era of Survey Research Matthew Salganik, Princeton University
10:00 am–10:30 am		Break
10:30 am–11:00 am		Privacy for the Protected (Only) Michael Kearns, University of Pennsylvania
11:00 am–11:30 am		Discussant-Led Discussion