Dates

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.

Pre-Work

1. Read the "happimetrics" manuscript, and pick a chapter for a short presentation in the workshop.

2. 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.

3. Complete a virtual mirroring/e-mail or WhatsApp analysis, analyzing your own mailbox with Griffin or WhatsApp with SocialCompass.

4. 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.

Admission Workshop Dates

• prior zoom info session April 5, 4pm CET  (zoom recording)

• Block course : 

  • April 11, 2024, 10 to 5 pm CET  (Bamberg, Cologne, HSLU) - will be onsite in Cologne. Pohligstraße 1, Seminar Room 3rd Floor

  • April 12, 2024, 10am to 3pm CET (Bamberg, Cologne, HSLU) - will be onsite in Cologne, Bernhard-Feilchenfeld-Str. 11, 413 Seminar Room 3.220

Virtual Status Meetings

Virtual status meetings are bi-weekly, Thursdays 15-17:00 CET, 9-11 ET

April 12,  virtual status #1  will happen 2pm to 3pm as part of block course  day #2

April 18,  virtual status #2 (zoom recording)

May 2,  virtual status #3  (zoom recording)

May 16,  virtual status #4  (zoom recording)

May 23,  virtual status #5 (individual team time, pre-register for slot with instructors)

June 6,  virtual status #6,  virtual mirror

June 20,  virtual status #7

July 4, virtual status #8 

July 18, final presentation

Final paper due: Aug 9, 23:59