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).
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 […]
Instructor: 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
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
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 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 […]
The 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 […]
Workshop: 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
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 […]
