A 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
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 […]
CCPR 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).
The two-word goal of “count everyone” is simply stated, but difficult. In this workshop we will give a broad overview of the many moving parts connected to the US decennial operation. Although fair apportionment is the primary motivator for a complete enumeration, we highlight how the 2020 decennial also serves as an important backbone for […]
“Research Ethics: Data and Big Data Issues” Prof. Anne Pebley Chair and Distinguished Professor, Fred Bixby Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences Professor, Department of Sociology Director, Bixby Center on Population and Reproductive Health
The RDC allows researchers to access confidential data from a growing number of federal statistical agencies, including the Census Bureau, the National Center for Health Statistics, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Bureau of Economic Analysis, and the Internal Revenue Service. This includes more fine-grained regional information and variables with respect to public data and […]
Job Market Workshop Wednesday, February 3, 2021 12:00pm to 1:00pm Corrina Moucheraud is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management. She is a global health policy and systems researcher, focused on the question: how can we deliver high-quality, efficient, equitable, sustainable health services in low-resource, system-constrained settings? She conducts both quantitative and […]
Instructor: Matt Lahmann Instructor: Mike Tzen This workshop has two halves. In the first half, we will dive into the 3 main computing resources that CCPR offers to affiliates, including it's remote and on campus offerings. At the end of the first half, we'll get participants signed up for hoffman2 and TS2. Once signed up, […]
Practical Web Technologies for Social Scientists Date: Thursday, April 8, 2021 Time: 1:00pm - 2:30pm Instructor: Neal Fultz This workshop will introduce the alphabet soup of technologies powering the modern web; TCP/IP, HTTP, HTML, XML, JSON, REST APIs, OAUTH, SSL, AWS, among others. Attendees will build up enough background knowledge to begin scraping data from […]
12:00 - 12:40 Shuchi Goyal, presentation title:"A Practical Revealed Preference Model for Separating Preferences and Availability Effects in Marriage Formation" Many problems in demography require models for partnership formation that separate latent preferences for partners from the availability of partners. We consider a model for matchings within a bipartite population where individuals have utility for […]
Instructor: Mike Tzen In this 2nd CCPR Census Workshop (2 of 3), we'll take a look at some of the ways the US Census Bureau, edits, imputes, and maintains privacy of the 2020 decennial census data before releasing it to the public. For practical reasons, we'll spend more time on imputation, as attendees will most […]
12:00 - 12:30 Nathan Hoffmann, presentation title: "A 'Win-Win Exercise'? Eastern European Children in Western Europe" 12:30 - 1:00 Brett McCully, presentation title: "Immigration, Legal Status, and Illegal Trade" Abstract: Nearly $2 trillion worth of illegal goods are trafficked across international borders every year, generating violence and other social costs along the way. Some […]
Hiram Beltran-Sanchez (UCLA), Jennie Brand (UCLA), and Rob Warren (UMN) will discuss life after tenure during their presentation.
DemSemX Within academia, there is a lot of focus and advice around getting tenure—understandably, as it represents a singular evaluation hurdle within tenure-granting institutions. Yet, academic careers can be long, and there are many decisions to be made after tenure about how to invest one’s time and energy. In this pair of sessions, six scholars […]
Instructors: Mike Tzen Neal Fultz In this CCPR Census Workshop (part 3/3), we will get the newly released 2020 Census Bureau PL94 data using the statistical programming language R. Along the way, we will point out recent criticisms of the data and highlight uses of the PL94. If time permits, we will post-stratify your special […]
Instructor: Matt Lahmann Instructor: Mike Tzen This workshop has two halves. In the first half, we will dive into the 3 main computing resources that CCPR offers to affiliates, including it’s remote and on campus offerings. At the end of the first half, we’ll get participants signed up for hoffman2 and TS2. Once signed up, […]
In this workshop, attendees will learn how to analyze survey data while accounting for its complex survey design. We will demonstrate how to specify the survey design, impute any missing data, and analyze the survey outcomes of interest. We will discuss how our downstream “analysis” steps are related to initial operational “design” choices made by […]
Abstract: This seminar will describe key issues in planning for and writing a research grant proposal for the National Institutes of Health if you are a demographer, social scientist, and/or working on the social determinants of health. The emphasis will be on R01, R21, and R03 proposals. Participants are invited to bring their own experiences […]
Instructor: Matt Lahmann Instructor: Mike Tzen This workshop has two halves. In the first half, we will dive into the 3 main computing resources that CCPR offers to affiliates, including it’s remote and on campus offerings. At the end of the first half, we’ll get participants signed up for hoffman2 and TS2. Once signed up, […]
