Calendar - social-and-decision-analytics-lab/2016-summer_students GitHub Wiki

Week 1

Mon, May 23

  • Human Resources and IT

Tues, May 24 (3-024 Room)

  • Projects overview (Katie, Gizem, Vicki, and Josh) (9-11)
  • Assignment of mentors
  • Monitor Hearings on the Hill and select 1-2 hearings to attend over the summer
  • Start on Group Project #1: Arlington Data Portal Website (Stephanie) (1-2)
  • Special Meeting: Counting Employment in Arlington County (2-3:30)

Wed, May 25

  • Introduction to Latex (Emily) (9-10am)
    • Assignment
  • Introduction to Data Science, Bash and our servers (Daniel) (1-4pm)

Thurs, May 26

  • Group Project #1: Arlington Data Portal Website
  • Exploratory data analysis and visualization (Josh)
    • Assignment

Fri, May 27

  • External Seminar Speaker: Dipak Dey (10-11am)
  • Introduction to R and Fixing data in R (Daniel)

Week 2

Mon, May 30 - Memorial Day

Tues, May 31

  • Sallie and Gizem Brownbag on Ethics
  • Analyzing Data in R (Daniel)

Wed, June 1

  • NAS Administrative Data Workshop (all day)

Thurs, June 2

  • Assignments due
  • Work on Group Project #1: Arlington Data Portal Website
  • Introduce Group Project #2: Social Cohesion (Katie, Stephanie, Gizem)

Fri, June 3

  • American Community Survey (Katie, Josh, Bianica)

Week 3

Mon, June 6

  • Bayesian Reading Group (12-1)
  • Analyzing and reporting data with R (Daniel)

Tues, June 7

  • External Seminar Speaker: George Percivall (11-12)
  • Vicki Brownbag on exploratory data analysis (2pm)

Wed, June 8

  • PostgreSQL (Aaron)
  • Intro to Git (Daniel)

Thurs, June 9

  • Group Project #1: Report on Findings
  • ASA Webinar: Enhancing the Value of Qualitative Research Using the Total Quality Framework (1-3)

Fri, June 10

  • Intro to GIS (Daniel)

Week 4

Mon, June 13

Tues, June 14

  • Katie Brownbag on qualitative analysis

Wed, June 15

  • Optional APPAM student brownbag (5:30-7:30pm)
    • The Public Professor: How to Use your Research to Change the World; Discussion and networking reception with author M.V. Lee Badgett
    • Dr. Badgett, author of The Public Professor: How to Use your Research to Change the World, is a policy analyst and public intellectual with more than 25 years of experience connecting cutting-edge research with policymakers and the public. Dr. Badgett will offer scholars strategies to use their ideas, research, and knowledge to impact the policy world.
    • Location: 1666 K Street NW, Suite 1100; Washington, DC 20006 (Closest Metro Station: Farragut North and Farragut West)
    • See link: https://github.com/social-and-decision-analytics-lab/2016-summer_students/raw/master/papers/APPAM%20AcademyHealth%20Book%20Event.pdf

Thurs, June 16

  • Group Project #2: Social Cohesion

Fri, June 17

Week 5

Mon, June 20

  • Optional Supreme Court Justices Mock Trial (7:30pm)
    • The Trial of Winston vs. Oceania-1984 (see notes below)
    • Sidney Harman Hall, 610 F Street, NW, Washington, DC 20004 (Go to Seats: Row FF Seat 10; Row FF Seat 12; Row FF Seat 14; Row FF Seat 16; Row FF Seat 2; Row FF Seat 4; Row FF Seat 6; Row FF Seat 8
    • Featuring: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Supreme Court of the United States, presiding
; Justice Stephen G. Breyer, Supreme Court of the United States; 
Judge David S. Tatel, United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit; Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh, United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit; 
Judge Patricia A. Millett, United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit

    • 1984 Book Summary. Winston Smith is a member of the Outer Party. He works in the Records Department in the Ministry of Truth, rewriting and distorting history. To escape Big Brother's tyranny, at least inside his own mind, Winston begins a diary — an act punishable by death.
    • Also see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four

Tues, June 21

  • Stephanie Brownbag on public policy

Wed, June 22

Thurs, June 23

  • Miron Brownbag
  • Group Project #2: Social Cohesion

Fri, June 24

Week 6

Mon, June 27

Tues, June 28

Wed, June 29

Thurs, June 30

  • Interim student presentations on projects

Fri, July 1

Week 7

Mon, July 4 - Fourth of July

Tues, July 5

  • Gizem Brownbag on social and economic networks

Wed, July 6

  • Bayesian Reading Group (12-1)

Thurs, July 7

  • Bianica Brownbag on agent-based modeling (12-1pm)
  • Group Project #2: Social Cohesion

Fri, July 8

Week 8

Mon, July 11

  • External Speaker Seminar

Tues, July 12

  • Dave Brownbag on Bayesian statistics

Wed, July 13

Thurs, July 14

  • ASA Webinar: Enabling Reproducibility in Statistical Analyses Using R Markdown (11-12:30)
  • Group Project #2: Social Cohesion

Fri, July 15

Week 9

Mon, July 18

Tues, July 19

  • Mark Brownbag on cognitive modeling

Wed, July 20

Thurs, July 21

  • Presentation of Group Project #2: Social Cohesion

Fri, July 22

Week 10

Mon, July 25

Tues, July 26

Wed, July 27

Thurs, July 28

Fri, July 29

  • Final Poster Presentations (Rm 3-024)