Blitz Workshop in Computational & Quantitative Social Sciences
DSI @UTSC

**Please note: Below is the Blitz schedule for 2022-2023.  The info is being left up for reference. Stay tuned for our 2023-2024 series.**

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The Blitz Workshops in Computational & Quantitative Social Sciences (CQSS) feature faculty members from across the three campuses who give short (10-15 minute) talks to increase awareness of various CQSS methods and projects. In addition to increasing awareness of methods and research, we aim to foster potential collaborations for future research projects.

The DSI at the University of Toronto Scarborough, DSI@UTSC, is leading a tri-campus initiative to encourage research activity in Computational and Quantitative Social Sciences that includes community-building, seed funding, and training.

The Blitz Workshops are all-day, in-person events that are open to members of the University of Toronto and DSI external funding partners. 

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Next CQSS Blitz Workshop – December 6, 2023

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Previous CQSS Blitz Workshops

February 16, 2023
9:30-10:00 am
Coffee/pastries
10:00-10:15 am
Welcome
Angelina Grigoryeva, Department of Sociology, University of Toronto Scarborough
10:15-10:30 am
Using AI to investigate the effects of central Bank Communications: It’s not just what they, say but how they say it!
Michelle Alexopoulos, Department of Economics, Faculty of Arts & Science
10:30-10:45 am
Social Media Content Recommendation as a Social Process
Peter Marbach, Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Arts & Science
10:45-11:00 am
MIMIC-IV, publicly available critical care data for research
Alistair Johnson, Child Health Evaluative Sciences, The Hospital for Sick Children, and Biostatistics, Dalla Lana School of Public Health
11:00-11:15 am
Break
11:15-11:30 am
Social and Behavioural Determinants of Health in Prognostic Machine Learning Models for Patient Outcome Prediction
Zahra Shakeri, Dalla Lana School of Public Health
11:30-11:45 am
How can tools from NLP help us understand human language processing?
Shohini Bhattasali, Department of Language Studies, University of Toronto Scarborough
11:45-noon
New Money in the New Economy: The Shift to Stock-Based Compensation and U.S. Wealth Inequality
Angelina Grigoryeva, Department of Sociology, University of Toronto Scarborough
noon-1:30 pm
Networking Lunch
1:30-1:45 pm
Infairness: Algorithmic bias evaluation and mitigation for large unlabeled datasets with broad application
Jessica Gronsbell, Department of Statistical Sciences, Faculty of Arts & Science
1:45-2:00 pm
Adaptive Experimentation to Improve Happiness and Well-being
Sofia Panasiuk, Dana Kulzhabayeva, and Nathan Laundry, Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Arts & Science
2:00-2:15 pm
Macroscopic Models of Equity Markets and Portfolio Selection
Ting Kam Leonard Wong, Department of Statistical Sciences, Faculty of Arts & Science
2:15-2:30 pm
Wrap up
November 9, 2022
9:30-10:00 am
Coffee/pastries
10:00-10:15 am
Introduction
10:15-10:30 am
Race Composition of the Applicant Pool and Employers’ Decision Not To Hire
Santiago Campero Molina, Centre for Industrial Relations and Human Resources, Faculty of Arts & Science
10:30-10:45 am
Using Facebook Ads data to estimate migration trends
Monica Alexander, Department of Statistical Sciences, Faculty of Arts & Science
10:45-11:00 am
Computer-Mediated Communication & Well-Being: ​A data quagmire
Bree McEwan, Institute of Communication, Culture, Information, and Technology, University of Toronto Mississauga,
11:00-11:15 am
Break
11:15-11:30 am
Testing, testing, is this thing right?
Rohan Alexander, Faculty of Information and Department of Statistical Sciences, Faculty of Arts & Science
11:30-11:45 am
District Competitiveness, Representativeness, and the Short Game at the Margins in Recent Canadian Elections, 2015-2021
Chris Cochrane, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto Scarborough
11:45-noon
Inequality in Economics and Sociology : ​1886 TO 2015
Alicia Eads, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts & Science
noon-1:30 pm
Networking Lunch
1:30-1:45 pm
Sympathetic vibrations? : ​The potential for quantitative contributions to the study of intersectionality
Blair Wheaton, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts & Science
1:45-2:00 pm
Incorporating geography into research on environments, behaviours, and health
Lindsey Smith, Department of Geography & Planning, Faculty of Arts & Science
2:00-2:15 pm
The Intergenerational Consequences of Social Mobility
Ethan Fosse, Department of Sociology, University of Toronto Scarborough
2:15-2:30 pm
Break
2:30-2:45 pm
Computational Social Sciences for the Study of Politics
Ludovic Rheault, Department of Political Science, Faculty of Arts & Science
2:45-3:00 pm
Associations of religion and spirituality with obesity and weight change in the United States: A large-scale cohort study of women
Nicholas Spence, Department of Sociology, University of Toronto Scarborough
3:00-3:15 pm
Closing Remarks