Howard University/Mathematica Computational Social Science Institute on Countering Anti-Black Racism and Inequity

Howard University and Mathematica are partnered to launch the first Summer Institute in Computational Social Science (SICSS) program hosted by a historically Black college or university.

SICSS-Howard/Mathematica held virtually, from June 14 to 25, 2021, to highlight how innovative social science research methods and real-world data can help counter anti-Black racism and inequity. The free, two-week program was open to graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and junior faculty. The Summer Institute was for both social scientists and data scientists.

The two-week interactive and instructional program included lectures, group problem sets, and participant-led research projects. Outside speakers who conduct and use computational social science research in academia, industry, government, and other settings added real-world insights to the program. Together, participants explored topics such as text as data, website scraping, digital field experiments, nonprobability sampling, mass collaboration, and ethics.

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