Montréal Methods Workshops

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 normally 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 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

DateSpeakerTopic
4 March 2021:
1-2PM		Alexandra Siegel (University of Colorado, Boulder)Collecting and Analyzing Social Media Data
29 April 2021:
1-2PM		Kirk Bansak (UC San Diego)Conjoint Experiments

Past Events

DateSpeakerTopic
2 November 2018Jamie Druckman (Northwestern University)“Why Replications Do Not Fix the Reproducibility Crisis: A Model and Evidence from a Large-Scale Vignette Experiment”*
​17 January 2020Annika Fredén (Karlstad University) and Sverker Sikström (Lund University)“Quantitative Text Analysis Workshop”*
​20 February 2020John Holbein (University of Virginia)“Regression Discontinuity Designs”*
27 February 2020 Semra Sevi (Université de Montréal)“Designing a Survey on Qualtrics”*
26 March 2020Semra Sevi (Université de Montréal)“Writing in LaTeX”*
3 April 2020Korhan Koçak (Princeton University)“What Do We Learn About Voter Preferences From Conjoint Experiments?”*
10 April 2020John Poe (University of Michigan)“Multilevel Modeling and Omitted Variable Bias”*
17 April 2020Alexander Coppock (Yale University)“Visualize as You Randomize: Design-Based Statistical Graphs for Randomized Experiments” Demo.*
24 April 2020Vincent Arel-Bundock (Université de Montréal)“Régression Multi-Niveau pour les Nuls”*
30 April 2020Arthur Spirling (New York University​)“Word Embeddings: What works, what doesn’t, and how to tell the difference for applied research”*
7 May 2020Mirya Holman (Tulane University​)“How to survive (and thrive) in academia: a practical guide”*
19 June 2020Shawna N. Smith (University of Michigan​)“Such a nuisance (parameter): Interactions & cross-model comparisons in binary response models”*
17 September 2020Andrew Heiss (Georgia State University)“Truth, Beauty, and Data: Why Data Visualization Matters in Research”
8 October 2020Kyle 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 2021Marc Bellemare (Minnesota)The Paper of How: Estimating Treatment Effects Using the Front-Door Criterion
4 February 2021Graeme Blair (UCLA)Better pre-analysis plans through design declaration and diagnosis*
11 February 2021Caroline Le Pennec (HEC Montréal)Money and Ideology: Evidence from French Legislative Elections
18 February 2021Aaron 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*
*Co-hosted with the Canada Research Chair in Electoral Democracy & Research Chair in Electoral Studies