The baton was passed to the University of Amsterdam for the fifth addition of IC2S2 with the core conference taking place between 18-20 July.

As the participants gear up for the 2019 Summer Institute in Computational Social Science (SICSS), starting June 16th at Princeton and the 11 alumni-led partner locations situated right across the globe, we caught up with the founders of the SICSS, Chris Bail and Matt Salganik to find out how it all got going, the move to a data intensive society and the benefits of learning data science skills to make the most of this new data.