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Programme

Monday, 23 August

08:45 – 09:45 - Coffee / Registration

09:45 – 10:00 - Opening of the Summer School, Main Conference Hall

10:00 – 11:30 - Plenary (60+30 min)

  • Keynote lecture: Richard McElreath - Causal Thinking for Descriptive Research
    Moderator: Peeter Tinits
    Main Conference Hall (online only)

11:35 – 13:30 Workshops

  • Peeter Tinits - Introduction to R and Tidyverse. 
    Co-lecturer Anton Malmi
    Small Conference Hall
     

  • Kristiina Vaik - Introduction to natural language processing using Pandas, Spacy and Stanza. 
    Co-lecturer Mari Aigro
    Corner Hall
     

  • Niko Partanen - Dataset creation, publishing and maintenance: Practices, solutions and open questions. 
    Co-lecturer Mariann Proos
    Auditorium 2.0

13:30 – 14:30 Lunch break

14:30 – 16:00 Workshop

16:00 – 16:30 Coffee

16:30 – 18:00 Workshops continue

19:00 – 22:00 Welcome reception at the Tallinn Town Hall

Tuesday, 24 August

08:45 – 09:30 Coffee / Registration 

09:30 – 11:00 Plenary (60+30 min)

  • Keynote lecture: Mila Oiva - Uncovering the Formation of Fake History Narratives
    Moderator Mariann Proos
    Main Conference Hall

Link to the recording: https://youtu.be/lVzPAYtaKmk

11:05 – 13:00 Workshops

  • Andres Karjus - Exploring and visualizing your data using R. 
    Co-lecturer Pärtel Lippus
    Small Conference Hall
     

  • Tuomo Hiippala - An introduction to doing research using social media data.
    Co-lecturer Ksenia Mukhina
    Auditorium 2.0
     

  • Leo Lahti, Iiro Tiihonen - Computational harmonization of bibliographic data. 
    Co-lecturer Peeter Tinits
    Corner Hall (online only)

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 – 15:30 Workshop

15:30 – 16:00 Coffee

16:00 – 17:30 Workshops continue

Wednesday, 25 August

08:45 – 09:30 Coffee / Registration 

09:30 – 11:00 - Plenary (60+30 min)

  • Keynote lecture: Jonas Nölle – Virtual Reality: A new tool for studying human behaviour in the lab
    Moderator: Andres Karjus
    Main Conference Hall

Link to the recording: https://youtu.be/gC0wohPv6VE

11:05 – 13:00 Workshops

  • Bodo Winter – Introduction to linear mixed models and Bayesian inference. 
    Co-lecturer Maarja-Liisa Pilvik
    Small Conference Hall
     

  • Osma Suominen, Mona Lehtinen, Juho Inkinen - Introduction to the Annif automated indexing tool
    Corner Hall (online only)
     

  • Mahendra Mahey - Solving research questions through computational thinking around experimentation with digital collections / data. 
    Co-lecturer Kärt Roomäe
    Auditorium 2.0

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 – 15:30 Workshop

15:30 – 16:00 Coffee

16:00 – 17:30 Workshops continue

Thursday, 26 August

08:45 – 09:30 Coffee / Registration 

09:30 – 11:00 - Plenary (60+30 min)

  • Keynote lecture: Dong Nguyen – NLP for robust and reliable measurements
    Moderator Artjoms Šeļa
    Main Conference Hall (online only)

Link to the recording: https://youtu.be/nWIHoG5OQqQ

11:05 – 13:00 Student sessions

  • Research methods troubleshooter. 
    Instructors Al Matthews, Andres Karjus
    Small Conference Hall (on-site only)

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 – 15:00 Digital Methods in a GLAM

  • Linda Freienthal – The KRATT at NLE - how did we do it
    In this lecture we will introduce TEXTA and give an overview of a project we did last year for the National Library of Estonia. We will describe the process of developing our solution for automatically proposing subject indices (keywords) for books.
    Moderator Peeter Tinits
    Small Conference Hall

Link to the recording: https://youtu.be/W2jyfAySWyA

15:00 – 15:30 Coffee

15:30 – 17:00 Student session

  • Research methods troubleshooter
    Instructors Al Matthews, Andres Karjus
    Small Conference Hall (on-site only)

17:00 – 17:30 Closing, Small Conference Hall

 

*All events take place in local Estonia time (GMT +3).