New MA program in CSS at Koç University!
We are proud to announce the new MA program in Computational Social Sciences at Koç University, which is established with support from the Social ComQuant Project. The deadline for application is June 25, 2021. You can visit the program’s web page for further details.
Exchange Program is Launched
Deadline: June 28! Our exchange program is launched! As part of the Social ComQuant, doctoral students, post-doctoral researchers & faculty members at Koc University are encouraged to apply for exchange visits to Europe’s two leading institutions (GESIS and ISI) in the areas of Computational Social Sciences and Quantitative Social Sciences! Check
2021 Summer School applications are open!
We are excited to announce that 2021 Computational Social Sciences Summer School applications are open! The main topic of the summer school will be the analysis of behavioral digital trace data. Digital traces such as social media posts, search engine queries, mobile phone records, and co-purchases are increasingly allowing social and
Spring 2021 Workshops
Our Spring 2021 workshops are out! You can visit their web pages for further details. (Workshop #4) Geospatial Techniques for Social Scientists in R (Online-Workshop) (Workshop #5) Automatic Sampling and Analysis of YouTube Data (Online-Workshop)
DataCamp access!
We are happy to announce we have “DataCamp for the Classroom” access starting with November 30, 2020. DataCamp provides an online training platform to companies and individuals where they can learn the skills they need to work with data in the real world. They offer courses in Python, R, SQL,
Social ComQuant’s first workshop
The very first workshop of the Social ComQuant project, titled Using Social Media Data for Research: Potentials and Pitfalls, was finalized yesterday. We would like to thank GESIS, our instructors Dr. Katrin Weller and Indira Sen, and the participants for such a productive workshop!
Twinning Projects Online Experience Sharing Activity
Erdem Yoruk will be giving a talk at the Twinning Projects Online Experience Sharing Activity on October 23, 2020 at 10am via Zoom. You can find the details on the event poster below.
The workshop program for Fall 2020
For Fall 2020 we are offering three workshops which will be organized by GESIS. The workshops are: (Workshop #1) Using Social Media Data for Research: Potentials and Pitfalls (November 9-10, 2020) (Workshop #2) Introduction to Network Analysis with R (November 26-27, 2020) (Workshop #3) Digital Trace Data in Social Science
Social ComQuant is kicking off!
We are very excited to announce that the Social ComQuant Project has officially become live on August 1, 2020! Starting today, for three years, there will be a large number of summer schools, workshops, courses, training programs at Koç, GESIS, and ISI, in addition to the exchange programs and conference
Our proposal for European Commission Horizon 2020 Twinning Action Grant is accepted!
European Commission has awarded a Twinning Action grant to Koç University for the proposal “Building the Future: Excelling in Computational and Quantitative Social Sciences in Turkey”, submitted by Associate Professor Erdem Yörük from the Sociology Department. The project has a budget of 900.000 Euros for three years, and Koç University
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