NASP, in cooperation with the Computational Models and Designs Hub and Behave Lab, is pleased to announce the

Workshop Series

Doing Computational Social Science with Python and R

15 May - 12 June 2025

NASP Graduate School
Department of Social and Political Sciences
University of Milan
Via Pace, 10 — Milan

Registration is required by April 30, 2025, to participate.
The application form, the full programme, and information are available HERE

Faculty coordinator
Raffaele Vacca - University of Milan

Instructors
Ayan-Yue Gupta - University of Milan|Behave Lab
Minsu Jang - University of Milan-Bicocca|Behave Lab
Vieri Pistocchi - University of Milan|Behave Lab
Francesco Renzini - University of Milan|Behave Lab

This series of 8 workshops offers a practical introduction to methods of computational social science and their implementation with Python and R. These are practical, hands-on workshops in which participants will run Python or R code on real-world data and will do coding exercises on their own laptops. 

Participants are free to attend all or just some of the sessions. However, knowledge of the introductory Python topics covered in Sessions #1 and #4 is necessary and assumed for participants in other Python-based sessions.

The workshops are open to PhD students, postdoc researchers, and faculty members from any institutional affiliation. Still, priority will be given to NASP and Unimi students and personnel (attendance is limited to 30 participants).

Workshop sessions:
1. Text-as-data: pre-processing and describing the data - Dr. Ayan-Yue Gupta
2. Text-as-data: word embeddings and topic modeling - Dr. Ayan-Yue Gupta
3. Getting data with APIs and web scraping - Dr. Ayan-Yue Gupta
4. Geospatial data processing and visualization - Dr. Minsu Jang
5. Introduction to agent-based modeling - Dr. Minsu Jang
6. Agent-based modeling with empirical data - Dr. Francesco Renzini
7. Modeling social networks: Exponential Random Graph Models - Dr. Vieri Pistocchi
8. Modeling networks and behaviors: Stochastic Actor-Oriented Models - Dr. Vieri Pistocchi & Francesco Renzini