Programme and Presentation Slides


Research workshop on

 

Demographic Research in the Digital Age

 

Denver (Colorado), United States, 25 April 2018, 1-5pm.

Sheraton Denver Downtown 

 

 

This Research Workshop, organized by the IUSSP Scientific Panel on Big Data and Population Processes, is a side event at the 2018 Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, taking place in Denver, CO, 26-28 April 2018.


Programme


Welcome and Introductions

Emilio Zagheni (U. of Washington and MPIDR)


PART I - Demographic and Network-based models

 

Keynote Presentation: Estimating Internet Adoption around the World using a Sample of Facebook Users

Dennis Feehan (UC Berkeley)


Tutorial: Getting started with network methods for estimation of demographic quantities

Dennis Feehan (UC Berkeley)


PART II – Contributed papers

 

Citizen science for demography: new techniques for digital data collection

Evan Roberts (U. of Minnesota)


What can Facebook Advertising Data Tell Us about Male Fertility Rates?

Francesco Rampazzo (U. of Southampton); Francesco Billari (Bocconi University); Maria Rita Testa (Wittgenstein Center); Ingmar Weber (QCRI); Emilio Zagheni (U. of Washington and MPIDR)


Extending the Demography of Sexuality with Digital Trace Data

Connor Gilroy (U. of Washington); Ridhi Kashyap (U. of Oxford)


Automatically assembling a full census of an academic field

Allison Morgan (U. of Colorado, Boulder); Samuel Way (U. of Colorado, Boulder); Aaron Clauset (U. of Colorado, Boulder)


Regularities in Patterns of Human Population Movement at Different Time Scales

Lee Fiorio (U. of Washington); Emilio Zagheni (U. of Washington and MPIDR); Guy Abel (ADRI and Wittgenstein Centre); Johnathan Hill (U. of Washington); Gabriel Pestre (Data-Pop Alliance); Emmanuel Letouze (Data-Pop Alliance); Jixuan Cai (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

 

Demographic Variation in Pickup Lines (and their Probabilities of Success)

Jeffrey Lockhart (U. of Michigan); Elizabeth Bruch (U. of Michigan).