Lars Vilhuber, Cornell University
4240 Public Affairs Bldg"Replication and Reproducibility in Social Sciences and Statistics: Context, Concerns, and Concrete Measures"
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Workshop: Merging Entities – Deterministic, Approximate, & Probabilistic
4240 Public Affairs BldgInstructor: Michael Tzen Title: Merging Entities: Deterministic, Approximate, & Probabilistic Location: January 31, 2019, 2:00-3:00 PM 4240 Public Affairs Building CCPR Seminar Room Content: Combining information from different groups is a fundamental procedure in the data analysis pipeline. Using NBA and NCAA data, we will walk through deterministic, approximate, and probabilistic methods to merge entities […]
Binational workshop on planning in Mexico and California
4240 Public Affairs BldgOrganizer: Paavo Monkkonen February 8, 2019 4240 Public Affairs Building The Luskin Latin American Cities Initiative ( https://ciudades.luskin.ucla.edu/ ) is hosting a workshop on urban planning this Friday, February 8th from 10:00am to 2:00pm. The main objective of the workshop is to compare the roles of Federal and State entities in local planning efforts both […]
Workshop: Tips for Success in Publishing in Peer Review Journals: An Editor’s Perspective
4240 Public Affairs BldgWorkshop: Tips for Success in Publishing in Peer Review Journals: An Editor's Perspective Presentation by Prof. Gilbert Gee Prof. Gee Dr. Gee is currently the Editor of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior. He has also been a guest editor for Child Development, Asian American and Pacific Islander Nexus Journal, and the Asian American Journal of Psychology.
The Second Sexual & Gender Minority Research Workshop
UCLA Faculty CenterOrganizer: Ilan Meyer February 22, 2019 UCLA Faculty Center The target audience for the Workshop is students, post-docs, and early investigators. Participants will learn about the NIH structure and grant processes, meet NIH Program Officers and extramural researchers who have been successful at obtaining NIH funding, and network with others interested in SGM-related health research.
Workshop: Grad Student Panel Discussing the Causal Toolkit
4240 Public Affairs BldgTitle: Grad Student Panel Discussing the Causal Toolkit Location: February 27, 2019, 2:00-3:30 PM 4240 Public Affairs Building CCPR Seminar Room Content: Focusing on the uses of the causal toolkit, several grad students will share a-ha moments and lessons learned from their own applied research. The target audience are grad students and researchers who wish […]
Workshop: UCLA IRB Application Process
Workshop: UCLA IRB Application Process Presentation by Moore Rhys Assistant Director, Education and Quality, Office of the Human Research Protection Program, UCLA This workshop will provide an overview of the UCLA IRB application process and related policies and procedures. Learning goals for this workshop include: 1) Understanding when IRB review is required and when it […]
Workshop: Getting All Your Research Computing Tools for Summer and Beyond – Hardware and Software
4240 Public Affairs BldgTitle: Getting All Your Research Computing Tools for Summer and Beyond - Hardware and Software Location: May 22, 2019 @ 12:00-1:30 PM 4240 Public Affairs Building CCPR Seminar Room Instructors: Matt Lahmann & Mike Tzen Content: We’ll get CCPR researchers all the computing tools for a productive summer of data science exploration. We'll get you […]
Workshop: Getting The Data Yourself – A Web Scraping Code Through
4240 Public Affairs BldgTitle: Getting The Data Yourself: A Web Scraping Code Through Location: May 29, 2019 @ 12:00-1:30 PM 4240 Public Affairs Building CCPR Seminar Room Instructors: Chad Pickering & Mike Tzen Content: We’ll empower CCPR researchers to get the domain-relevant data they want slides exercise
Summer Institute in Computational Social Science
CCPR Seminar Room 4240 Public Affairs Building, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesThe purpose of the Summer Institute is to bring together graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and early career faculty interested in computational social science. The Summer Institute is open to both social scientists (broadly conceived) and data scientists (broadly conceived).
Workshop: Data Carpentry for Social Science
Data Carpentry develops and teaches workshops on the fundamental data skills needed to conduct research. Its target audience is researchers who have little to no prior computational experience, and its lessons are domain specific, building on learners' existing knowledge to enable them to quickly apply skills learned to their own research. Participants will be encouraged […]
Statistical Computing Part 1
4240 Public Affairs BldgInstructor: Matt Lahmann We'll get you signed up for hoffman2 and TS2. With Hoffman2 and TS2, you'll have state of the art hardware resources and most software you'll ever need for research. RSVP Signup via https://forms.gle/FgGuPdqQdF3RLVzC8
Statistical Computing Part 2
Instructor: Mike Tzen Using a very common data analysis scenario of "Group-(Split)-Apply-Combine", we'll show you how to make the most of cutting edge powerful hardware in both Hoffman2 and TS2. RSVP signup via https://forms.gle/i9fXG2Dcbw8L5AG38 slides rscript
Multilevel Structures in Statistics and Data Science
We’ll look at how different multilevel groupings are used in different analysis methods. As examples, Longitudinal, Hierarchical, and Crossed grouping structures have been used in Sports, Survey, Time till Event, Spatial, and Network analyses. Participants should come in thinking of a project and we can work out possible approaches as a group. Note: This is […]
An introduction: The Library Data Science Center
4240 Public Affairs BldgAn Introduction: The Library Data Science Center Description: This talk will provide an introduction to the Library Data Science Center, the services and research support it provides. Tim Dennis is the Director of the Data Science Center, whose mission is to foster a welcoming research community by developing data literacy and foundational coding skills through […]
Workshop: Homelessness M4H UCLA/VA
CCPR Seminar Room 4240 Public Affairs Building, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesThe goal of this workshop is to share information among a broad group of investigators who are employing mobile technology to study persons who have experienced homelessness. Projects discussed will include studies of homelessness among Veterans and non-Veterans. Presented projects will range from early-stage studies that are in progress to completed studies, including those that […]
Tips on Giving Effective PAA Presentations and Posters, Job Talks, and the Like, Including Ethical Considerations
4240 Public Affairs BldgWorkshop: Tips on Giving Effective PAA Presentations and Posters, Job Talks, and the Like, Including Ethical Considerations Speakers: Don Treiman, Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus, Sociology Comments by: Anne Pebley, Fred H. Bixby Chair and Distinguished Professor, Community Health Science & Patrick Heuveline, Professor, Sociology. View Slides Here
Population Statistics Journal Club
4335 Public Affairs BuildingA journal club to discuss measuring intersectional and structural racism, further with a lens on structural bias and how statistical models can be developed/adjusted to partner with the research being developed in other areas such as public health and racism. Faculty sponsors: Chandra Ford and Gilbert Gee
Workshop: Remote Research Tools, All You Ever Wanted to Know
We will have a remote workshop to demo useful tools to help researchers work remotely. We plan to demo VPNs, remote server options, zoom, github, jupyter notebooks, etc. Please RSVP in the survey. We will send out the zoom link to those who signed up. If you have a specific tool you want to learn […]
Summer Institute in Computational Social Science
4240 Public Affairs BldgCCPR June 15 – 26, 2020 4240 Public Affairs Building The purpose of the Summer Institute is to bring together graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and early career faculty interested in computational social science. The Summer Institute is open to both social scientists (broadly conceived) and data scientists (broadly conceived).