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THE SPRING 2018</h3>
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THURSDAY’S, 11:00AM-12:20PM, KENT 120</h3>
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A LIGHT LUNCH WILL BE PROVIDED AT EACH WORKSHOP.</h5>
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MARCH 29TH -<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://macss.uchicago.edu/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(66, 139, 202); text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.125s ease-in-out 0s;">MACSS STUDENT
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AN OPPORTUNITY FOR SECOND YEAR MACSS STUDENTS TO PRESENT THEIR THESIS RESEARCH</h6>
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<a href="https://github.com/uchicago-computation-workshop/2018_spring_conference" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(66, 139, 202); text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.125s ease-in-out 0s;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">2ND
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">NOTE: SPECIAL TIME AND LOCATION:</em><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">THURSDAY, 5-7PM - SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH BUILDING 122</span></h6>
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APRIL 5TH -<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.chrisbail.net/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(66, 139, 202); text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.125s ease-in-out 0s;">CHRIS BAIL</a></h3>
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DOUGLAS AND ELLEN LOWEY ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF SOCIOLOGY AND PUBLIC POLICY, DUKE UNIVERSITY</h6>
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APRIL 12TH -<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~bgolub/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(66, 139, 202); text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.125s ease-in-out 0s;">BEN
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ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS, HARVARD UNIVERSITY</h6>
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<a href="https://github.com/uchicago-computation-workshop/ben_golub" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(66, 139, 202); text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.125s ease-in-out 0s;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">TALK
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APRIL 26TH -<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/paolo-parigi-085782b/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(66, 139, 202); text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.125s ease-in-out 0s;">PAOLO
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LEAD TRUST SCIENTIST, AIRBNB</h6>
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MAY 4TH -<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://glenweyl.com/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(66, 139, 202); text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.125s ease-in-out 0s;">GLEN WEYL</a></h3>
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PRINCIPAL RESEARCHER AT MICROSOFT RESEARCH NEW ENGLAND, VISITING SENIOR RESEARCH SCHOLAR, YALE UNIVERSITY</h6>
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MAY 10TH -<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://sociology.uchicago.edu/directory/kathleen-cagney" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(66, 139, 202); text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.125s ease-in-out 0s;">KATHLEEN
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ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, SOCIOLOGY; HEALTH STUDIES DIRECTOR, POPULATION RESEARCH CENTER, NORC; EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEMBER, MASTERS IN COMPUTATIONAL SOCIAL SCIENCE PROGRAM, UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO</h6>
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MAY 17TH -<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://growthlab.cid.harvard.edu/people/andres-gomez" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(66, 139, 202); text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.125s ease-in-out 0s;">ANDRES
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POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW AT THE CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT, HARVARD UNIVERSITY</h6>
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MAY 24TH -<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/bogdan-state-72782a53/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(66, 139, 202); text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.125s ease-in-out 0s;">BOGDAN
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DATA SCIENTIST, FACEBOOK</h6>
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This weekly workshop highlights the work of those pioneering data science analytical techniques and social science and computation methods while bringing together graduate students, post-docs, and faculty all working at the nexus of computation and big, social
science questions. The workshop also allows regular participants to share works in progress for feedback, fosters robust dialogue between young scholars in these emerging fields, and showcases local scholars leading pedagogical seminars on new papers or methods.</p>
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The 2017-2018<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://macss.uchicago.edu/content/computation-workshop" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(66, 139, 202); text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.125s ease-in-out 0s;">Computational
Social Science Workshop<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></a>meets each Thursday from 11:00 a.m. to 12:20 p.m. in Kent 120. All interested faculty and graduate students are welcome. Students in the Masters of Computational Social Science program
are expected to attend and join the discussion by posting a comment on the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://github.com/uchicago-computation-workshop/README" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(66, 139, 202); text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.125s ease-in-out 0s;">issues
page<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></a>of the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://github.com/uchicago-computation-workshop" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(66, 139, 202); text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.125s ease-in-out 0s;">workshop’s
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