How to become a computational social scientist

Scientific research and teaching are increasingly influenced by computational tools, methods and paradigms. The social sciences are no different, with many new forms of social data only available or practical through computational means (Kitchen, 2014). While social science research has always been marked by technological approaches to some degree, the field of computational social science […]

EDDI22 – European DDI User Conference

Hybrid - Online and In-Person

EDDI22 is organized jointly by CDSP , Center for Socio-Political Data, GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences and IDSC of IZA – International Data Service Center of the Institute for the Study of Labor.   The EDDI22 Conference website is at:   It will be hosted by Sciences Po in their buildings at Rue Saint-Peres, […]

GESIS Meet the experts: “Linking surveys with electoral integrity assessments to explain political trust”

This talk presents a linking approach that combines expert assessments on electoral integrity with survey data to study how electoral integrity affects the way in which election results translate into citizen attitudes towards the political system. It introduces a causal mechanism that links political losing to political trust via evaluations of electoral fairness: citizens who […]

1st ISSP User Conference “Social Inequality”

Since 1986, the ISSP has provided high-quality data on attitudes and behaviors on important societal issues such as family, health, work, religion, the role of government, social inequality, the environment, national identity and citizenship, social networks, or leisure and sports. The newly launched ISSP User Conference Series is designed to provide a platform for the […]

Reproducibility and confidential or proprietary data: can it be done?

CRRESS invites you to join our December webinar “Reproducibility and confidential or proprietary data: can it be done?“. Paulo Guimarães (Banco de Portugal, BPLIM), John Horton (MIT), Lars Vilhuber (Cornell University) compose the panel. Aleksandr Michuda (Cornell University) will moderate the session. The fourth panel of CRRESS, The Conference on Reproducibility and Replicability in Economics […]

Teaching with census data

Census 2021 will provide demographic, employment, housing and other characteristics about local populations at neighbourhood level. This free workshop is designed to enable those teaching undergraduate students to use this local material to explore substantive questions related to their discipline. The aims of the workshop are to enable participants to be able to: Appreciate the […]

Safe Researcher Training

This Safe Researcher Training (SRT) course is intended for researchers who will be, or are in the process of, applying for access to controlled data in the UK Data Service Secure Lab. It is also suitable for researchers who will be accessing controlled data in other secure environments, such as the ONS Secure Research Service […]

4th Symposium on Big Data and Research Syntheses in Psychology with a special focus on Machine Learning & Open Science

You are invited to participate in the 4th symposium on big data and research syntheses in psychology to be held in Frankfurt am Main, Germany (May 8–10, 2023).We are pleased to collaborate with Europe’s Journal of Psychology (EJOP):Selected contributions from the symposium will be invited for full-text submission to a special thematic section of EJOP!The […]

48th Annual Conference of IASSIST – Diversity in Research: Social Justice from Data

Philadelphia, PA, USA, May 30 – June 2, 2023 Host institution: IASSIST with representation from the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University, Rutgers University, and Temple University. Registration is NOW OPEN! Go the registration page to get more information and register. Program The theme of the conference is Diversity in Research: Social Justice from Data. The […]

Learn From Our Users: Registration and Registry Basics on the OSF

Have you heard about registrations, preregistration, or OSF Registries? Are you confused? You’re not alone. We’re here to discuss the basics of how these open scholarship tools and software products work, with a focus on existing use-cases and users. Join us if you support researchers as a program officer, a funder, or a research coordinator. […]

Helping Others Use Your Data: Lessons From the Field of Neuroscience

So you’ve created an amazing dataset that you would love for other researchers to have access to. What’s next? Join experts from NeuroImaging Data Model (NIDM) and the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics to learn about metadata: what it is, why it is important, and how the OSF and other tools can make it […]

Learn From Our Users: Projects and Collection Basics on the OSF

Have you heard about the OSF, projects, or OSF Collections? Are you confused? No problem! We’re here to discuss the basics of how these open scholarship tools and workflows work, with a focus on existing OSF project and Collections use-cases and the people that utilize them. Join us if you support researchers as a program […]