Spark: a centre for social research innovation
Spark: a centre for social research innovation
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From Parmida Soltani
7 plays 0Friday March 18, 2022 Dr. Ifatunji's talk and workshop will focus on the theoretical and practical considerations for using public datasets such as census data or… -
From Allison Van
11 plays 0April 1, 2022 In this talk, Carolyn will explore the ethical considerations of contact-based research and ask how the identities of researchers and research… -
From Allison Van
6 plays 0Spark has been embarking for the last two years on a journey with partners in the community to apply the best of social science research to the real challenges of… -
From Allison Van
7 plays 0Did the election of Donald Trump have an immediate effect on trust in the US government in Latin America? Leveraging the timing of the field implementation of the… -
From Allison Van
4 plays 0How can we comparatively assess the “successfulness” of mass protests? I develop an expanded typology of protest outcomes to score protest campaigns on their… -
From Allison Van
6 plays 0This will be an introductory talk for “Measuring for Impact Workshop” that will teach an approach to interviewing that allows for precise pre- and post-… -
From Allison Van
9 plays 0Shockingly, an FDA assessment found that medical device sound issues are linked to hundreds of fatalities each year. Despite the fact that the technology in these… -
From Allison Van
3 plays 0An introductory talk discussing the ways in which classification is an infrastructure and technology of power. Considering the fundamental role of classification in… -
From Allison Van
8 plays 0Friday February 4, 2022In this talk, the discussion will be the alignment between machine learning and qualitative methods. Dr. Nelson will illustrate this alignment… -
From Allison Van
10 plays 0Participants will learn about the method of cognitive interviewing to pretest survey questions. I will introduce the general goals of pretesting and key aspects of… -
From Allison Van
5 plays 0Friday January 21, 2022 How can researchers accurately and safely measure sensitive topics on surveys? We evaluate several common methods using a… -
From Allison Van
32 plays 0Workshop instructor, Allison Van, discusses the workshop and what will be learnt in this brief introduction. -
From Allison Van
11 plays 0Friday January 14, 2022 The social autopsy takes the death of a set of individuals as its starting point and then critically and systematically examines social and… -
From Allison Van
9 plays 0Natural Language Processing (NLP) has changed radically with the emergence of neural network approaches that learn to represent words, sentences, and other linguistic… -
From Allison Van
1 plays 0An introductory talk discussing the ways in which classification is an infrastructure and technology of power. Considering the fundamental role of classification in… -
From Allison Van
8 plays 0Participants that complete online surveys and experiments may be inattentive, which can hinder researchers’ ability to draw substantive or causal inferences.… -
From Allison Van
15 plays 0Modern computational tools hold a lot of potential for reimaging the types of social science questions we can ask and answer. Yet getting started with these methods… -
From Allison Van
17 plays 0November 5, 2021 What happens inside meetings, events, and activities held by civil society organizations—and how often do those internal dynamics occur? I answer… -
From Allison Van
40 plays 0October 29, 2021 Transparency is all the rage in the social sciences. Yet, how exactly transparency can be pursued in qualitative research is very much still up for… -
From Allison Van
33 plays 0October 22, 2021 The quest to understand music’s emotional power has long fascinated philosophers and acousticians —not to mention the composers, performers… -
From Allison Van
10 plays 0September 24, 2021 Spark has organized the vast and ever changing world of social research methods into seven toolkits. In this Open House series, the Academic Director… -
From Allison Van
6 plays 0September 24, 2021 Spark has organized the vast and ever changing world of social research methods into seven toolkits. In this Open House series, the Academic…
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