On this page you will find slides to methods workshops organized by the Montréal Methods Workshops. This is a platform for scholars to present and discuss cutting-edge methods for data analysis and visualization in the social sciences. At various points, the coordinating committee included: Vincent Arel-Bundock, André Blais, Costin Ciobanu, Ruth Dassonneville, Aaron Erlich, Marco Mendoza Aviña, Gabrielle Péloquin-Skulski and Semra Sevi.

Date	Speaker	Topic
2 November 2018	Jamie Druckman (Northwestern University)	“Why Replications Do Not Fix the Reproducibility Crisis: A Model and Evidence from a Large-Scale Vignette Experiment”*
​17 January 2020	Annika Fredén (Karlstad University) and Sverker Sikström (Lund University)	“Quantitative Text Analysis Workshop”*
​20 February 2020	John Holbein (University of Virginia)	“Regression Discontinuity Designs”*
27 February 2020	Semra Sevi (Université de Montréal)	“Designing a Survey on Qualtrics”*
26 March 2020	Semra Sevi (Université de Montréal)	“Writing in LaTeX”*
3 April 2020	Korhan Koçak (Princeton University)	“What Do We Learn About Voter Preferences From Conjoint Experiments?”*
10 April 2020	John Poe (University of Michigan)	“Multilevel Modeling and Omitted Variable Bias”*
17 April 2020	Alexander Coppock (Yale University)	“Visualize as You Randomize: Design-Based Statistical Graphs for Randomized Experiments” Demo.*
24 April 2020	Vincent Arel-Bundock (Université de Montréal)	“Régression Multi-Niveau pour les Nuls”*
30 April 2020	Arthur Spirling (New York University​)	“Word Embeddings: What works, what doesn’t, and how to tell the difference for applied research”*
7 May 2020	Mirya Holman (Tulane University​)	“How to survive (and thrive) in academia: a practical guide”*
19 June 2020	Shawna N. Smith (University of Michigan​)	“Such a nuisance (parameter): Interactions & cross-model comparisons in binary response models”*
17 September 2020	Andrew Heiss (Georgia State University)	“Truth, Beauty, and Data: Why Data Visualization Matters in Research”
8 October 2020	Kyle Peyton (Yale University)	The Generalizability of Online Experiments Conducted During The COVID-19 Pandemic
5 November 2020	Scott Cunningham (Baylor University)	New Developments in Differences-in-Differences. Demo. Andrew Baker’s Documentation
28 January 2021	Marc Bellemare (Minnesota)	The Paper of How: Estimating Treatment Effects Using the Front-Door Criterion
4 February 2021	Graeme Blair (UCLA)	Better pre-analysis plans through design declaration and diagnosis*
11 February 2021	Caroline Le Pennec (HEC Montréal)	Money and Ideology: Evidence from French Legislative Elections
18 February 2021	Aaron Erlich (McGill), Amélie Godefroidt (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) and Alexander Wuttke (Mannheim Centre for European Social Research)	Roundtable discussion: Transparent methods, pre-registration, and replications in Political Science*
4 March 2021	Alexandra Siegel (University of Colorado, Boulder)	Collecting and Analyzing Social Media Data
29 April 2021	Kirk Bansak (UC San Diego)	Recent Research in the Design and Analysis of Conjoint Experiments