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Registration ends 11 November 2020
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How many times have you committed to sharing your research with the public while not quite knowing how? Mihaela Gruia joins us from the United Kingdom for a two-part workshop series on developing a…
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In this first of a two part workshop, Dr. Brian Southwell explores the latest understanding of how social and political opinions are formed and re-formed, and the implications for how researchers…
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Gavin Zhao, member of the Brighter Spark Applied Research team introduces AppSheet, a google add-on that allows you to create custom apps. Zhao built an app for Brighter Spark's evaluation of a…
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Hosted by Juan Velasco, a visual journalist with a long career focused on visualizing complex research and scientific information, this session will help participants understand why design is an…
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Caroline Sinders is an artist and researcher whose work explores the intersections of critical design, trauma, data, and AI as art. This talk will explore the methodology she’s created to guide…
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With anti-immigrant sentiment on the rise, surveillance
of immigrants has become common including in labour markets. Such
surveillance is so normalized that it is not recognized as such,…
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Policymaking Gone Viral: Changing the Velocity
of Information in Congress. In a political culture where the latest
tweet can set off a political firestorm, lawmakers have adapted…
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September 24, 2021 Spark: a centre for social research innovation exists to help solve
challenges that come up in social research education and applications. Each
session will introduce one of…
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September 24, 2021 Spark: a centre for social research innovation exists to help solve
challenges that come up in social research education and applications.Each
session will introduce one of…
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Spark has organized the vast and ever-changing world of
social research methods into seven methodology toolkits. In this Open House series, the Academic Director and Executive Director
of Spark…
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An introductory talk discussing the ways in which classification is an
infrastructure and technology of power. Considering the fundamental
role of classification in AI, the presenters will…
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An introductory talk discussing the ways in which classification is an
infrastructure and technology of power. Considering the fundamental
role of classification in AI, the presenters will…
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Did 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 2016
wave of the…
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Spark 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 running community services and…
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Social scientists use various techniques to elicit honest answers to sensitive questions in surveys. The list experiment is a popular option that reduces sensitivity biases but sacrifices statistical…
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Toolkit #7: Knowledge MobilizationThis session will walk-through methodologies, toolkits, and
analytical approaches for understanding the importance of inclusive data and
GBAPlus frameworks in…
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Co-founders of the science communication project and science blog "The Null Hypothesis"— our project centers around demystifying scientific research - what it looks like behind the…
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Podcasting is one way a researcher/academic can make their work accessible to mainstream audiences outside of their fields of study. It is also a way of meeting a like-minded community. This…
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In this talk, Dr. Hatzifilalithis will give an overview of her postdoctoral research that focuses on how age-based stereotypes influence digital technologies. She will also give a walkthrough of how…
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Many students of statistics and econometrics express frustration with the way a problem known as “bad control” is treated in the traditional literature. The issue arises when the addition…
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Increasing the transparency and reproducibility of scientific research has received considerable attention over the past decade. Takeup of this call has varied considerably over the social sciences,…
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The talk will present an automated content analysis method based on supervised machine learning (SML) and recent advances in transfer learning. The method will be presented through a case study on…
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I review methods for handling missing data in empirical studies in the social sciences. I define missing data, and provide a taxonomy of main approaches to analysis, including complete-case and…
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