BITSS Research Transparency and Reproducibility Training (RT2)
BITSS will hold its next Research Transparency and Reproducibility Training (RT2) on 8/25, 8/27, 9/1, and 9/3. RT2 will be hosted online and sessions will take place 8–11:30 am PT (GMT-7) on the days noted.
RT2 provides participants with an overview of tools and practices for transparent and reproducible social science research. The program is developed and delivered by leading researchers from across the social sciences and will provide participants with opportunities for collaborative work and skills-building. Participants will be able to exchange feedback and receive support from instructors through daily online forums. Following the training, BITSS will also facilitate office hours where participants will be able to meet with instructors and receive guidance on their research questions and ideas.
Program
An agenda is available here. The program will be distributed over four days, covering the following topics:
- Research ethics and Mertonian norms for transparency and reproducibility
- Improved specification through study pre-registration and pre-analysis plans
- Appropriate use of statistics and interpretation of statistical evidence
- Hands-on practice with version control using Git (GitHub or the Command Line)
- Dynamic documents with R or Stata
- Data sharing and management practices for reproducibility.
You can learn more about the RT2 curriculum and find materials from past RT2 events here.
Faculty include (in alphabetical order): Alexander Coppock (Yale University), Valentin Danchev (University of Essex), Benjamin Daniels (Georgetown), Tim Dennis (UCLA), Luiza Cardoso de Andrade (The World Bank), Fernando Hoces de la Guardia (BITSS), Ciera Martinez (Berkeley Institute for Data Science), Edward Miguel (UC Berkeley and CEGA/BITSS), Cecilia Hyunjung Mo (UC Berkeley), Leif Nelson (UC Berkeley), Lars Vilhuber (Cornell University), and Timothy Vollmer (UC Berkeley Library).
Participants
Applications are now closed. BITSS selected 50 participants, representing nearly all social science disciplines and coming from over 45 institutions in 39 different countries.
Contact
Reach out to BITSS Project Manager Aleksandar Bogdanoski (abogdanoski@berkeley.edu) with any questions about this event.
