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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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Arguments about how causal qualitative and quantitative research are “usually” or “mostly” done abound. In our workshop, we summarize the results of a review of 180…
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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 debate, especially when issues around…
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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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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 overarching mission of many social science researchers is to understand “what works” for improving life outcomes. However, mounting evidence suggests that results from many studies do…
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What happens when hundreds of researchers investigate the same research question with the same data? Answer: almost anything goes. Observing researchers in such a task reveals so many minute…
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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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In this session, Dantzker will review and discuss the purposes, methodologies, and utility of applied social science research and program evaluation approaches she has used over the course of her…
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In this short video, Dr. Brian Southwell introduces you to his workshop that explores the latest understanding of how social and political opinions are formed and re-formed, and the implications for…
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In this talk, Dr. Kim Fortun will walk participants through the Platform for Experimental, Collaborative Ethnography (PECE, pronounced “peace”), an open-source, freely accessible digital…
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In this talk, Carolyn will explore the ethical considerations of
contact-based research and ask how the identities of researchers and
research participants shapes the ethics of research in…
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Spark has organized the vast and ever changing world of social research methods into seven toolkits. In this Open House series, the Academic Director and Executive Director of Spark introduce six of…
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Spark has organized the vast and ever changing world
of social research methods into seven toolkits. In this Open House
series, the Academic Director and Executive Director of Spark introduce…
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In this video, Spark's own webmaster, Celine Keomany, talks about how you can build an informative and eye-catching academic website. She shares the elements of an effective academic website,…
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In
this talk, Dr. Nelson will discuss the alignment between machine
learning and qualitative methods. Dr. Nelson will illustrate this
alignment by using machine learning, specifically word…
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In this talk Dr. Fei Yu will introduce what bibliometric analysis is and what you can do with it. She will use examples from her own work to discuss the resources, tools, methods, and processes of…
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Tyler Girard
will be speaking on the
construction, adoption, and effects of international norms are major topics of
research in political science. However, our approaches to measurement have…
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Government intentions stand at the
heart of debates about how big data can and should be used in
the Global South. Laura will present three government visions for
big data, discuss each…
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To err is human, but to issue a meaningful correction or retraction is relatively rare in scientific publishing. In this joint project with Daniel Bischof and Michelle Dion, we ask: why? This…
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Meta-research is a new discipline that assesses the quality of research for society. A new area of interest is how reproducible social interventions translate to efficacious public policy. Social…
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