Office of Public Affairs and Communications: “The Data Science Workshop on Computational Social Science: Computational Social Science”

The Office of Public Affairs and Communications presents a day long workshop:

“The Data Science Workshop on Computational Social Science: Computational Social Science.”

The workshop will include 2-3 external talks, 10-12 short talks, and a poster session.  Coffee breaks will be provided. Lunch is on your own.

• Dragomir Radev, Yale University:  Introduction
• Alan Gerber, Yale University:  Welcome
• Jesse Shapiro, Brown University:  “Measuring Polarization in High Dimensional Data: Method and Application to Congressional Speech”
• Jenn Wortman Vaughan, Microsoft Research:  “The Human Components of Machine Learning”
• Ryan Cotterell, Johns Hopkins University:  “Probabliistic Typology: Deep Generative Models of Vowel Inventories”
• Brendan O’Connor, University of Mass.Amherst:  “TBA”
• Claire Bowern, Yale University:  “Using Bayesian Methods to Infer Language Spread”
• Vineet Kumar, Yale University:  “Does Restricting Information Make the Crowd Smarter?”

Registration