If you would like to join the seminar, please contact the local administrator at your university before the official start date. Before joining a team, please complete the pre-work listed below, and present your results in the admission block course listed below.
You can join any of the projects listed on the Projects page.
Before joining a project team, you will have to work through the Happimetrics book manuscript, to familiarize yourself with the algorithms and methods used in this seminar, and do the pre-work listed below.
Read the "happimetrics" manuscript, and pick a chapter for a short presentation in the workshop. Sign up here for the presentation
Complete an online social media analysis on Wikipedia or Reddit of your choice with Griffin. You can self-register for a free account on the Griffin Web site.
Complete a virtual mirroring/e-mail or WhatsApp analysis, analyzing your own GMAIL mailbox with Griffin or WhatsApp (you will have to export that as CSV, and then import as an edge file in Griffin).
Take the personality, ethics, morals, risk taking tests on the Happimeter Web site (FFI, Dospert, Schwartz, Moral, you need to register/login on the Happimeter Website first to be able to take the tests); (this will be needed for later analysis in the virtual mirror). You can compare that with your values computed from your emotional response to provocative videos.
Here are links to the Hillary_Clinton and Enron E-Mail dataset for analyzing it with Griffin to further experiment with email-based social network analysis.
Once you have completed the pre-work, register for the admission block workshop listed below. Only after successfully having completed the admission workshop, will you be able to join a team.
At the admission workshop, a brief overview of the seminar will be given, and you will have to present the results of your Reddit or Wikipedia Analysis and Mailbox/WhatsApp virtual mirror in 5 to 10 minutes on a few Powerpoint slides, as well as the chosen Happimetrics chapter.
kickoff zoom info session Oct 4, 3pm CET (zoom recording)
Block course (on site for Cologne, at Seminarraum 401, Pohligstraße 1 50969 Köln-Zollstock, Gebäude 411 Pohlighaus OG 4, virtual by zoom for Bamberg and HSLU students)
Oct 9, 2024, 10 to 5 pm CET (Bamberg, Cologne, HSLU) (powerpoint overview presentation)
Oct 10, 2024, 10am to 3pm CET (Bamberg, Cologne, HSLU) (projectwork presentation)
Virtual status meetings are bi-weekly, Thursdays 15-17:00 CET, 9-11 ET
Oct 10, virtual status #1 will happen 2pm to 3pm as part of block course day #2
Oct 17, virtual status #2 (zoom recording)
Oct 31, virtual status #3 (zoom recording)
Nov 14, virtual status #4 (zoom recording)
Nov 28, virtual status #5, virtual mirror (zoom recording)
Dec 12, virtual status #6 (zoom recording)
Jan 9, 2025, virtual status #7 (zoom recording)
Jan 23, 2205, Final Presentation (zoom recording)
Final paper due: Feb 14, 2025, 23:59