A monthly hour-long discussion where researchers from various disciplines and institutions share best practices and training for quantitative research projects in social sciences. Workshops are held on Thursdays at 1PM Montréal time on Zoom. All are welcome! If you are not on the email list, you can sign up here by sending an empty email (leave the subject line intact).

The current organizing committee includes students and professors from the Université de Montréal and McGill University: Vincent Arel-Bundock, Costin Ciobanu, Aaron Erlich, Gabrielle Péloquin-Skulski and Semra Sevi.

All the workshops are sponsored by the Centre for the Study of Democratic Citizenship. Voir le site en français ici.

Future Events

Date	Speaker	Topic
Thursday, 28 January 2021: 1-2PM	Marc Bellemare (Minnesota)	The Paper of How: Estimating Treatment Effects Using the Front-Door Criterion
Thursday, 4 February 2021: 12-1PM	Graeme Blair (UCLA)	Better pre-analysis plans through design declaration and diagnosis
Thursday, 11 February 2021: 1-2PM	Caroline Le Pennec (HEC Montréal)	Money and Ideology: Evidence from French Legislative Elections
Thursday, 4 March 2021: 1-2PM	Alexandra Siegel (University of Colorado, Boulder)	Text Analysis and Social Media
Thursday, 29 April 2021: 1-2PM	Kirk Bansak (UC San Diego)	Conjoint Experiments

Past Events

Date	Speaker	Topic
Friday, 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”
​Friday, 17 January 2020	Annika Fredén (Karlstad University) and Sverker Sikström (Lund University)	“Quantitative Text Analysis Workshop”
​Thursday, 20 February 2020	John Holbein (University of Virginia)	“Regression Discontinuity Designs”
Thursday, 27 February 2020	Semra Sevi (Université de Montréal)	“Designing a Survey on Qualtrics”
Thursday, 26 March 2020	Semra Sevi (Université de Montréal)	“Writing in LaTeX”
Friday, 3 April 2020	Korhan Koçak (Princeton University)	“What Do We Learn About Voter Preferences From Conjoint Experiments?”
Friday, 10 April 2020	John Poe (University of Michigan)	“Multilevel Modeling and Omitted Variable Bias”
Friday, 17 April 2020	Alexander Coppock (Yale University)	“Visualize as You Randomize: Design-Based Statistical Graphs for Randomized Experiments” Demo.
Friday, 24 April 2020	Vincent Arel-Bundock (Université de Montréal)	“Régression Multi-Niveau pour les Nuls”
Thursday, 30 April 2020	Arthur Spirling (New York University​)	“Word Embeddings: What works, what doesn’t, and how to tell the difference for applied research”
Thursday, 7 May 2020	Mirya Holman (Tulane University​)	“How to survive (and thrive) in academia: a practical guide”
Friday, 19 June 2020	Shawna N. Smith (University of Michigan​)	“Such a nuisance (parameter): Interactions & cross-model comparisons in binary response models”
Thursday, 17 September 2020	Andrew Heiss (Georgia State University)	“Truth, Beauty, and Data: Why Data Visualization Matters in Research”
Thursday, 8 October 2020	Kyle Peyton (Yale University)	The Generalizability of Online Experiments Conducted During The COVID-19 Pandemic
Thursday, 5 November 2020	Scott Cunningham (Baylor University)	New Developments in Differences-in-Differences. Demo. Andrew Baker’s Documentation