Events

Upcoming Events

Below are our upcoming events for Fall 2024. Join our listserv to stay updated!

  • Lightning Talks - Monday November 11, 2024, in JRR A01 - RSVP link

Poster for R Group lightning talks from Economics, Politics, and Sociology grad, postdoc, and fellows speakers

  • Seeing Like a Statistician: Interactive Geovisualization from R (Andre Alcantara, ECON)
    • In this talk, I will introduce through examples some options in the R ecosystem for visualizing different types of geospatial data, with a focus on interactive tools for exploration and presentation in empirical work.
  • Leveraging Multilanguage ALC Embeddings for Regression Analysis (Elisa Wirsching, POL)
    • Word embeddings are now a vital resource for social science research. Unfortunately, it can be difficult to obtain high quality embeddings for non-English languages, and it may be computationally expensive to do so. I present ALC embedding resources that are adaptable to scholars’ idiosyncratic settings and show how to integrate them in a regression-style framework.
    • Link to demo
  • Using Exponential Random Graph Models for Inferential Network Analysis (Ben Rosche, SOC)
    • This talk introduces exponential random graph models (using the statnet and ergm R packages) for modeling network formation. I show how these models can help uncover the micro-level mechanisms that shape macro-level network structures.

Past Events

Fall 2024

  • Invited Speakers Talk: Correcting Downstream Inferences using Large Language Model Annotations (or other predicted variables) with Design-Based Supervised Learning (Professor Brandon Stewart, SOC)

Poster for R Group talk from Sociology Professor Brandon Stewart

  • Invited Speakers Talk: Studying Spatial Inequality Using Algorithmic Simulations in R (Tyler Simko, POL)

    • October 23, 2024, 12:15pm, Louis Simpson 271

Poster for R Group talk from Politics Postdoctoral Research Associate Tyler Simko

Spring 2024

Fall 2023

  • Workshop: Using ChatGPT and R for Effective Research and Teaching (Angela Li, SOC) - September 28, 2023

  • Invited Speakers Talk: Formatted Optical Character Recognition (Zachary Bleemer, ECON) - October 24, 2023

Poster for R Group talk from Economics Professor Zachary Bleemer

  • Invited Speakers Talk: Embedding Regression: Models for Context-Specific Description and Inference (Arthur Spirling, POL) - November 14, 2023

Poster for R Group talk from Politics Professor Arthur Spirling

  • Lightning Talks - November 30, 2023

    • Quantitative Sociological Semantics and Conceptual Ethics (Zac Lim, SOC)

    • Running 100 Imputations on HPC Clusters (Muhammet Emre Coskun, SPIA)

    • Creating Effective Shiny Apps (Jamie Caldwell, HMEI)

Spring 2023

  • Workshop: Introduction to R for Public Policy Applications (Kim Kreiss, SPIA) - February 10, 2023

  • Workshop: Creating Engaging Data Visualizations in R with ggplot2 (Angela Li, SOC) - February 24, 2023

  • Graduate Lightning Talks - March 24, 2023

    • Reproducible Coding Workflows (Varun Satish, SOC)

    • R for Humanitarian Data Collection (Noe Hinck, SPIA)

    • Developing a Shiny App for the Princeton Gym (John Kearns, SPIA)

  • Invited Speakers Talk: Regression Discontinuity Analysis (Rocío Titiunik, POL) - April 5, 2023

Poster for R Group talk from Politics Professor Rocio Titiunik