Event time:
Friday, October 20, 2017 - 9:00am to 5:30pm
Location:
Luce Hall
34 Hillhouse Avenue
New Haven, CT
06511
Event description:
The Data Science Workshop on Computational Social Science
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Schedule
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9:00-9:15 Introduction Dragomir Radev Yale University |
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Welcome Alan Gerber Yale University |
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9:15-10:00 The Human Components of Machine Learning Jenn Wortman Vaughan Microsoft Research |
| 10:00-10:30 Coffee Break |
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10:30-11:15 Social Event Extraction: Inferring International Relations and Police Killings from the News Brendan O’Connor University of Massachusetts Amherst |
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11:15-12:00 Using Bayesian methods to infer language spread. Claire Bowern Yale University |
| 12:00-1:30 Lunch |
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1:30-2:15 Measuring Polarization in High-Dimensional Data: Method and Application to Congressional Speech Jesse Shapiro Brown University |
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2:15-3:00 Probabilistic Typology: Deep Generative Models of Vowel Inventories Ryan Cotterell Johns Hopkins University |
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3:00-3:30 Robots for Autism Brian Scassellati Yale University |
| 3:30-4:00 Coffee Break |
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4:00-4:45 Does Restricting Information make the Crowd Smarter? Vineet Kumar Yale University |
| 4:45-5:30 Short Presentations |