During these meetings, fellows will present on the methodological and technical aspects of their work. Participants can learn more about each fellow's areas of specialization. 

The second half of each meeting will be dedicated to informal discussion and interdisciplinary networking. The DDSS…

During these meetings, fellows will present on the methodological and technical aspects of their work. Participants can learn more about each fellow's areas of specialization. 

The second half of each meeting will be dedicated to informal discussion and interdisciplinary networking. The DDSS Director (Rocío…

A forum to discuss papers, packages, ideas, and random things---or pose questions to network of peers working with record linkage methods and techniques.

A forum to discuss papers, packages, ideas, and random things---or pose questions to network of peers working with large data management and processing.

A forum to discuss papers, packages, ideas, and random things---or pose questions to network of peers working with geospatial data and techniques.

During these meetings, fellows will present on the methodological and technical aspects of their work. Participants can learn more about each fellow's areas of specialization. 

The second half of each meeting will be dedicated to informal discussion and interdisciplinary networking…

This workshop introduces researchers to tools for large geospatial data processing in R and SQL. Before researchers can conduct statistical analyses, they often first need to standardize and geolocate a list of addresses, then perform one or more common operations, such as spatial joins, identifying and aggregating covariates from nearest…

Please join us in welcoming our fellows at our first DDSS Coffee Hour! During these meetings, fellows will present on the methodological and technical aspects of their work. Participants can learn more about each fellow's areas of specialization. 

The second half of each meeting will be…

This workshop covers topics for advanced geospatial analysis in R, with an emphasis on incorporating analyses into existing R workflows without the need for bindings to standalone GIS software. Covered material will include spatial density and concentration analysis, spatial autocorrelation, identification of local clusters or outliers, and…

This workshop briefly introduces participants to several R tools for record linkage. We then discuss Splink, an increasingly popular Python package for record linkage and deduplication. Following a brief (re)introduction to the underlying probabilistic framework, a code-along will demonstrate an example use case, highlighting the package’s…

Researchers often need to merge or deduplicate datasets that lack common identifiers for unique individuals or entity names. A researcher’s choice of solution to this problem can often affect downstream analyses, and researchers may also wish to incorporate uncertainty from this stage into their analyses. In this workshop, we introduce record…

Are you looking to share your Python code? This workshop will show participants the best practices for making a compatible and installable Python package. Participants will work through a set of hands-on exercises that cover the various steps required to publish a package on the Python Package Index (PyPI).
 

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This workshop gives the introduction to create interactive plots for data visualization in Python. Without the need to delve into more complex programming languages like JavaScript and HTML, you would just learn a few straightforward functions to generate plots and even dashboard to visualize the research data in interactive ways! The…

The Princeton R Group will be hosting its final event of the semester with a set of lightning talks! These are informal talks where people across policy and the social sciences can come showcase an interesting application of R for their work. Speakers will present for 10-15 minutes and take questions at the end of their talk. The goal is to…

We show how applied researchers can estimate differences between groups in terms of those groups' "understandings" of terms.  We present inferential machinery for this, along with a convenient R package. We show how these ideas can be extended to non-English languages.

*Lunch will be provided!*  Please RSVP below…

Many researchers are interested in conducting statistical analysis of large-scale data contained in scanned books or other documents. While OCR technology is increasingly capable of producing text versions of scanned documents, its unstructured (and often typo-ridden) products can be challenging to analyze. This talk will discuss how to…

This lunch-n-learn workshop is the first in a series of workshops hosted by tigeRs, the Princeton R Group, during the Fall 2023 semester.

ChatGPT and generative AI tools offer an opportunity for researchers to do their work more effectively, but social scientists, researchers, and policy analysts aren't always sure where to…

The ability of GPT-3 and its "cousins" to generate texts for a broad range of tasks–from summarization to question-answering and information retrieval—via an intuitive natural language interface—may hold great promise for social science research. Already, researchers are using GPT-3 for tasks ranging from optical character recognition (OCR)…

Graduate students wil talk about interesting applications of R in their work and see how you too can use R for social science and policy research! Please contact Angela Li  or DDSS Graduate Fellow Kim Kreiss&nbsp…

This two-part workshop goes from a gentle introduction to key concepts in deep learning to the mechanics of advanced architectures used in the cutting edge of research. In Part 1, we will cover the core building blocks of neural networks models, and gain an understanding of the key intuitions behind using neural networks to model data.
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Creating engaging and accessible data visualizations is an essential tool for policy and research communication. We will discuss the main concepts of the grammar of graphics and use applied examples to explore ggplot2’s ability to create multi-layered and complex graphs. The workshop provides a short overview of the basics of ggplot2 for data…