DDSS holds its own workshops during the academic year. These events will be announced through our mailing list and will be posted here. Ideas for additional workshops, including advanced technical training by external sources, can be submitted to [email protected] for consideration.

FALL 2024

This series introduces SQL for social scientists, with a focus on DuckDB – a portable, fast, and scalable database for analytics. With only a few basics, researchers can easily scale projects to handle most larger-than memory data processing tasks without need of a cluster. We will discuss how to conveniently integrate DuckDB's SQL dialect into existing R (and Python) workflows. We conclude with special topics, which may include geospatial data processing, databases on the cluster, and some SQL best practices.

The DDSS Connect: Interdisciplinary Exchange is a dedicated forum for informal discussion and interdisciplinary networking for those working in advanced quantitative or computational social science. 

Graduate students, faculty, and staff across disciplines are invited to learn more about the DDSS, discover the areas of technical specialization offered by our fellows, seek informal consultation, highlight particular needs, and discuss new ideas.

Each meeting opens with a presentation from our Graduate Fellows of Social Data Science on the methodological and technical aspects of their work. We then move to general discussion and unstructured conversations. 

The Princeton Julia User Group is a group for students, researchers and developers on campus to discuss and promote the Julia programming language. We aim to help participants:

   ●  Improve their Julia skills

   ●  Facilitate the adoption of Julia as the default choice for high-performance research software on campus

  ●  Learn how to write parallel code in Julia

  ●  Get support with Julia on the Research Computing systems.

Our monthly meetings provide a friendly environment for participants to ask questions, seek advice, share their Julia knowledge. From the merely curious to the experienced Julian, all those interested in Julia are welcome. Lunch will be provided.

Suscribe to listserve

You can join the group by subscribing to the listserv. After subscribing, you can view the archives and write to the list.

Contact

To volunteer to help with planning and putting on future events, send e-mail to Colin Swaney ([email protected]).

The Julia User Group is co-sponsored by Data-Driven Social Sciences and Princeton Research Computing.

The Princeton R Group, sponsored by DDSS, hosts informal monthly lunch events where scholars present interesting applications of their work in R. Learn more about the Princeton R Group at https://princeton-r-group.github.io. 

Contact

Please contact  Angela Li or Eric Manning to learn more about the group or offer recommendations for future sessions.