Hi everyone, This event could be interesting to all.
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Subject: FW: University of Toronto Social Science Methods Week - please circulate
From: "Angela Demke Brown"
Date: Mon, March 18, 2019 2:28 pm
To: dcsall@cs.toronto.edu
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From: Arts & Science - Graduate [mailto:graduate.artsci@utoronto.ca]
Sent: March 18, 2019 12:16 PM
To: Arts & Science - Graduate
Subject: University of Toronto Social Science Methods Week - please
circulate
Dear Graduate Coordinators and Administrators,
The Department of Sociology is hosting an interdisciplinary week of methods
workshops for scholars in the social sciences (broadly defined). Please
circulate the below announcement to your faculty and graduate students.
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UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO SOCIAL SCIENCE METHODS WEEK
Faculty and graduate students are cordially invited to attend the 2nd annual
University of Toronto Social Science Methods Week (SSMW), held April 29-May
3, 2019.
SSMW consists of a series of workshops on methodologies with high potential
to improve and advance research in the social sciences. Workshops are taught
by expert methodologists drawn from departments across the social sciences
at the University of Toronto. SSMW is an interdisciplinary forum where
researchers can upgrade their methodological toolkit and build
cross-disciplinary ties to like-minded scholars.
The following workshops are being offered:
* Introduction to Python
* Introduction to Web Scraping and APIs with Python
* R Basics: Analyzing and Plotting Data
* Measuring Theoretical Constructions with Unobserved Variables: An
Introduction to Structural Equation Modeling
* Models of Social Change: Methods and Principles of Age-Period-Cohort
Analysis
* Integrated Network Science: Social Network Analysis in R
* Multilevel Modeling: An Introduction
* Registered Reports in Behavioral Science: A How-to Guide and
Description of Benefits for Scientific Progress
* Qualitative Social Science: A Fun Overview
* Hearing Silence in Qualitative Interviews
Workshops are free, but registration is required.
Full details and a link to the registration form can be found on the event
website: click here
e-methods-week/university-of-toronto-social-science-methods-week-2019/> or
copy and paste the URL into your web browser
(http://sociology.utoronto.ca/events-2-2/university-of-toronto-social-scienc
e-methods-week/university-of-toronto-social-science-methods-week-2019/)
Yours sincerely,
Abdul Kawsar Tushar
Graduate Assistant, Department of Computer Science
University of Toronto.