Conference Agenda
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Session Overview |
| Date: Wednesday, 08/Sept/2021 | |
| 10:00 - 1:00 | Workshop 1 |
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Changing the Question: How to collect data which is closer to the truth Kantar UK Duration of the workshop: 2.5 h Target groups: No specific target group Is the workshop geared at an exclusively German or an international audience? International audience Workshop language: English Description of the content of the workshop: The workshop will introduce a number of techniques for writing questions to reduce biases and dishonesty in online surveys. It will also cover techniques to increase respondent engagement and increase the quality of data collected. Participants will put these techniques into practice via the re-writing of a provided questionnaire. Goals of the workshop: To improve the participants' knowledge of techniques for creating engaging surveys which encourage respondents to answer honestly (and to spot when they are not) Necessary prior knowledge of participants: none Literature that participants need to read prior to participation: none Recommended additional literature: none Information about the instructor: Steve Wigmore comes originally from an advertising agency background but has been working in market research for the last 15 years. He has held a number of roles but and is currently Director of Modern Surveys at Kantar. Maximum number of participants: 25 Will participants need to bring their own devices in order to be able to access the Internet? Will they need to bring anything else to the workshop? No. |
| 10:00 - 1:00 | Workshop 2 |
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Collecting and Analyzing Twitter Data Using R Bielefeld University, Germany Duration of the workshop: 2.5 h Target groups: No specific target group Is the workshop geared at an exclusively German or an international audience? International audience Workshop language: English Description of the content of the workshop: This workshop provides an overview about Twitter data and how to collect and analyze it using R. Participants learn how to access Twitter’s API in order to collect data for their own research projects. A number of examples illustrate how to preprocess and analyze the content and meta-information of Tweets. Participants are encouraged to have their own installation of R ready in order to take part in the practical exercises. Goals of the workshop: Learning Goals: 1) Getting a better understanding of Twitter data, and thus, the potentials and limitations of using it in research projects. 2) Being able to collect Twitter data using R, and 3) Being able to perform explorative analyses of the data using R Necessary prior knowledge of participants: Basic knowledge in R or any other statistical software/language (SPSS, Stata, SAS, Python) Literature that participants need to read prior to participation: none Recommended additional literature: none Information about the instructors: Dorian Tsolak is a PhD candidate at Bielefeld University. His research interests cover stereotypes, racism and migration across the field of computational social science. Stefan Knauff is a master student at Bielefeld University interested in methods of computational sociology and research on inequality and globalization. Maximum number of participants: 20 Will participants need to bring their own devices in order to be able to access the Internet? Will they need to bring anything else to the workshop? No. |
| 1:00 - 2:00 | Break |
| 2:00 - 5:00 | Workshop 3 |
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Create impact with data - know your audience and communicate well 1Impact Distillery, Germany; 2Digital Business University of Applied Sciences, Germany; 3Alexander von Humboldt Institut für Internet und Gesellschaft, Germany; 4larissawunderlich.de, Germany Duration of the workshop: 2.5 h Target groups: Everyone working with data and statistics Is the workshop geared at an exclusively German or an international audience? International audience Workshop language: English Description of the content of the workshop: Discussion of target groups, tools for science transfer, and principles of effective visual communication. Goals of the workshop: Participants know how to develop a communication / transfer strategy and are provided with a basic toolset for effective communication. Necessary prior knowledge of participants: none Literature that participants need to read prior to participation: none Recommended additional literature: none Information about the instructors: Marcel is professor for Data Science (at DBU) and founder of Impact Distillery. Larissa is designer (https://www.larissawunderlich.de/) and visual communication expert. Maximum number of participants: 20 Will participants need to bring their own devices in order to be able to access the Internet? Will they need to bring anything else to the workshop? No |