Introducing the latest in Data Science,

focusing on applications in social,

political and policy sciences.

2020

  • Speaker: Professor Harold D. Clarke/ University of Texas at Dallas
  • Date: 15th October 2020
  • Topic: Will Women Deny Trump a Second Term? Gender and the Political Economy of Presidential Approval

     

  • Speaker: Professor Christopher Achen / Princeton University
  • Date: 22nd October 2020
  • Topic: Studying Elections in an Era of Unrepresentative Surveys

     

  • Speakers: Larry M. Barterls / Vanderbilt University & Katherine J. Cramer / University of Wisconsin
  • Date: 29th October 2020
  • Topic: The Political Impact of Economic Change

     

  • Speakers: Professor Michael Lewis-Beck /and Professor Colin Lewis-Beck / University of Iowa
  • Date: 5th November 2020
  • Topic: Forecasting the 2020 US Elections

     

  • Speaker: Professor Kosuke Imai / Harvard University
  • Date: 12th November 2020
  • Topic: Evidence-Based Policy Evaluation

     

  • Speaker: Professor Thomas Scotto/ University of Glasgow
  • Date: 18th November 2020
  • Topic: Vaccine Scepticism and the British Public: Developing Measurement Models for Policy Interventions

     

  • Speaker: Professor Andrew Q / University of Colorado Boulder
  • Date: 3rd December 2020
  • Topic: Do Elites Really Affect Financial Markets?

     

  • Speaker: Professor Guy D. Whitten / Texas A&M University
  • Date: 11th December 2020
  • Topic: Modeling Dynamic Pies: recent advances in the modeling of dynamic compositional outcomes

     

  • Speaker: Professor Lauren Ratcliff Santoro / University of Texas at Dallas
  • Date: 16th October 2020
  • Topic: Introduction to Social Network Analysis

     

  • Speaker: Professor Fang Qiu / University of Texas at Dallas
  • Date: 16th December 2020
  • Topic: Geospatial Data Visualization and Analytics Using Open Source Software 1/2
  • Topic: Geospatial Data Visualization and Analytics Using Open Source Software 2/2

     

  • Speaker: Professor Jey Vererasamy/ University of Texas at Dallas
  • Date: 16th December 2020
  • Topic: Visualization in JavaScript with Processing (5js)

     

  • Speaker: Professor Jeff Gill/ American University
  • Date: 17th December 2020
  • Topic: Critical Differences in Bayesian and Non-Bayesian Inference and Why the Former is Better