Thursday
March 24
6:00pm-7:00pm

Welcome & General Information Session

Program Director Meredith Rolfe and event organizers Maddi Hertz, Niharika Pola, and Leah Dion introduce themselves, describe the program, preview the weekend’s events, and answer your questions. We strongly recommend you one of the two welcome events.

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Friday
March 25
9:00AM-10:00Am

Welcome & General Information Session

Program Director Meredith Rolfe and event organizers Maddi Hertz, Niharika Pola, Zutima Tuladhar, and Krishna Chaitanya Rao introduce themselves, describe the program, preview the weekend’s events, and answer your questions. We strongly recommend you one of the two welcome events.

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FrIday
MARCH 25
10:00Am-12:00pm

Workshop: Introduction to text mining and APIs using R

Join us for a workshop organized and facilitated by current DACSS graduate students Abhinav Kumar and Krishna Chaitanya Rao Kathala. This introduction to text mining with R workshop is intended for beginners interested in starting to build data gathering and analysis skills.

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Friday
MARCH 25
12:00Pm-1:30pm

Innovations in Social
Data Science Seminar

Join us in a conversation with two industry professionals and UMass Amherst alumni about their experience using data to drive innovation in the medical field. 

Speakers:
Rhonda Longmore-Grund, President & CEO Akumin inc. (Alliance Healthcare services) Healthcare finance, CA
Tom Concannon, Policy Researcher at the RAND corporation, Assistant professor of medicine, Tufts University.

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Friday
MARCH 25
4:00Pm-5:00pm

DACSS Faculty Meet & Greet

DACSS Professors talk about their courses and research interests and answer your questions about academic and research opportunities available through DACSS and UMass.

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FriDay
MARCH 25
5:30Pm-6:30pm

DACSS Student Roundtable

A small group of current students talk about their experience in DACSS including what they’ve enjoyed most, their plans for after graduation, how to make the most of your time in the program, and general tips for success.

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Saturday
MARCH 26
6:00Pm-8:00pm

Social Night

Worried about housing? Need restaurant recommendations?
Make friends and meet potential roommates by joining us for an informal social night. This is a fun, casual opportunity to get to know fellow members of the DACSS summer/fall 22' cohort. A few current students will also be there to chat candidly about all you really need to know about the program.

This event is BYO (obviously) if you're so inclined :)

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MondaY
MARCH 28
6:00Pm-7:20pm

DACSS 602 – Research Design

Join our Research Design class – taught by DACSS Teaching Fellow Maddi Hertz and Prof. Rolfe – for a semi-structured interviewing activity. This class lays the groundwork for conducting social science research by covering a different method each week.

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Tuesday
MARCH 29
11:30Am-12:45pm

DACSS 697D – Text-as-Data

Join Professor Song’s Text-as-Data class (a technical elective option) as they learn about supervised learning classifiers/models such as Naive Bayes, Support Vector Machine etc.

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Tuesday
MARCH 29
5:00Pm-6:00pm

Student Research Spotlight

A small group of current students talk about their research, what they’ve accomplished so far, and how DACSS helped them achieve their academic and research goals.

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Wednesday
MARCH 30
7:30Pm-8:50pm

DACSS 601 – Data Science Fundamentals

Get a preview of what you’ll be learning as part of Data Science Fundamentals! Sit in on Professor Rolfe’s DACSS 601 class. 

If you have a UMass email address, join the DACSS 601 Google Classroom for access to our tutorials!

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About Us

The UMass Data Analytics and Computational Social Science (DACSS) is a new interdisciplinary academic program offering campus, online, and mixed-mode graduate courses, certificates, and M.S. degrees. DACSS students gain valuable hands-on experience with the tools and techniques used by CSS researchers and data analytics professionals. DACSS emphasizes "doing good with data" and attracts a higher proportion of women and underrepresented groups to the STEM field of social data science. Visit the DACSS website for more!

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