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Introduction to digital trace data`:` Quality, ethics, and analysis. Utrecht University

Introduction to digital trace data: Quality, ethics, and analysis

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Weekly schedule

Week Date Content Before the session
1 Sep 6 (Fr) Lecture: Introduction to digital trace data Read BbB chapters 1.1-1.4, 2.1-2.5
1 Sep 6 (Fr) Lab: Introduction to digital trace data (Solutions)  
1 Sep 6 (Fr) Group project starts  
2 Sep 13 (Fr) Lecture: User-centric approaches to DTD WAS chapter 1, Ohme et al. (2023) and Boeschoten et al. (2022) pp.388-394
2 Sep 13 (Fr) Lab: User-centric approaches to DTD (Solutions)  
3 Sep 18 (We) Group project feedback I See project guidelines
3 Sep 20 (Fr) Lecture: Platform-centric approaches to DTD Big data book chapter 2, Davidson et al. (2023), Freelon (2018)
3 Sep 20 (Fr) Lab: Platform-centric approaches to DTD (Solutions)  
4 Sep 25 (We) Group project feedback II See project guidelines
4 Sep 27 (Fr) Lecture: Errors in DTD collection Read BbB chapter 3.1-3.4, WASbook chapter 4 and Data femiminism Introduction and chapter 1
4 Sep 27 (Fr) Lab: Errors in DTD collection (Solutions)  
5 Oct 2 (We) Deadline group project See project guidelines
5 Oct 4 (Fr) Lecture: The role of AI in DTD Big data book chapters 7.1 - 7.5, 7.7.2, 7.9, 11.1 - 11.6, and (Meteen (2017) or Business Insider (2024))
5 Oct 4 (Fr) Lab: The role of AI in DTD (Solutions)  
6 Oct 11 (Fr) Lecture: Ethics Read BbB chapter 6, Keymolen & Taylor (2023)
6 Oct 11 (Fr) Lab: Ethics (Solutions)  
7 Oct 16 (We) Group project feedback III  
7 Oct 18 (Fr) Lecture: Designed big data Read BbB chapter 3.6, Big data & Social science chapter 3.1 - 3.4, Eckman et al. (2024)
7 Oct 18 (Fr) Lab: Designed big data (Solutions)  
8 Oct 23 (We) Group project feedback IV See project guidelines
8 Oct 25 (Fr) Deadline: Group presentation See project guidelines
9 Oct 30 (We) Final recap and Q&A Prepare for exam, bring questions
9 Nov 1 (Fr) Final exam  
x Nov 15 (Fr) Exam inspection  
x Nov 22 (Fr) Resit exam