Big Data Hub

Date/Time
Date(s) - 01/11/2021 - 02/08/2021
All Day

Categories

• Big Data
• Course
• Course
• Seminar
• Webinar

Based on Dr. Paul Allison’s book Missing Data, this on-demand seminar covers both the theory and practice of two modern methods for handling missing data: multiple imputation and maximum likelihood.

Many researchers have told us that they would love to take the course but just can’t manage the time or the money to attend the live sessions. Developed over three years, this web-based version is a popular alternative for anyone looking for a more flexible option to learn missing data techniques. It is designed to closely match the in-person version, but with substantial additional material.

The course takes place online in a series of four weekly installments of videos, quizzes, readings, and assignments, and requires about 10 hours/week. You may participate at your own convenience; there are no set times when you are required to be online.

This four-week course can be accessed with any recent web browser on almost any platform, including iPhone, iPad, and Android devices. It consists of 12 modules:

1. Basic principles and assumptions.
2. Conventional methods for missing data.
3. Maximum likelihood (ML) for categorical variables.
4. ML and the EM algorithm.
5. Direct ML with SEM software and with mixed models.
6. Basic principles of multiple imputation (MI).
7. MI for non-monotone data using MCMC.
8. MCMC options and complications.
9. Fully conditional specification.
10. Multivariate inference, interactions, and nonlinearities.
11. Other methods, panel data, clustered data.
12. Non-ignorable missing data.

This seminar will begin on Monday, January 11, 2021, and conclude on Monday, February 8, 2021.

All course materials are available 24 hours a day. Materials will be accessible for an additional 2 weeks after the official close on February 8.

The fee of $495 (USD) includes all course materials.

For more information on the event and to register, visit the page here.

Date/Time
Date(s) - 01/28/2021 - 01/30/2021
10:00 am - 5:00 pm

Categories

• Big Data
• Class
• Course
• Evaluation
• Event Type
• Seminar
• Webinar

This seminar focuses on methods for the analysis and interpretation of Regression Discontinuity (RD) designs. It will cover both introductory concepts and recent methodological developments.

The RD design is a non-experimental method that has high internal validity for estimating treatment effects. The design can be used when individuals are assigned to some treatment based entirely on a score—in education, this score is usually referred to as a “pretest score”. This could be any quantitative measure, such as an exam grade, income, age, or cholesterol level. All individuals whose score exceeds a predetermined cutoff are offered the treatment, while all individuals below the cutoff are not offered the treatment. For example, if a scholarship is given only to students who score 90 or more points in an exam, the effect of the scholarship could be analyzed with a RD design.

After treatment, an outcome is measured for all individuals–the “posttest score”–which could either be the same variable as the pretest score or a different measure. The analysis focuses on detecting possible discontinuities in the observed relationship between the pretest score and the outcome of interest at the cutoff, under appropriate continuity or local randomization assumptions.

The event runs from Thursday, January 28, 2021 – Saturday, January 30, 2021.

Each day will follow this schedule:

10:00am-2:00pm ET: Live lecture via Zoom

4:00pm-5:00pm ET: Live “office hour” via Zoom (Thursday and Friday only)

The fee of $895 includes all course materials. PayPal and all major credit cards are accepted.

The event details can be found here.

Date/Time
Date(s) - 10/22/2019
9:00 am - 12:00 pm

Location
Faculty of World Studies

Categories

• Big Data
• Conference
• Seminar

Celebrating the eighth Global Media and Information Literacy Week (24 – 31 Oct 2019), the UNESCO Chair on Cyberspace and Culture is organizing the “Global Media and Information Literacy Seminar: Media and Information Literate Citizens” on Tuesday, 22 October 2019.

This seminar aims to address the concept of MIL Citizens and how MIL can contribute to improving the levels of information, engagement, and empowerment for all. By highlighting these issues, we can progress towards the objectives of open and pluralistic information systems, promoting sustainable development, inclusion, equality, intercultural dialogue, and safeguarding democracy.

Organizers:

• UNESCO Chair on Cyberspace and Culture
• Faculty of World Studies, University of Tehran

Collaborators & Endorsers:

• Center for Open Science
• Coko – Collaborative Knowledge Foundation
• Cyberspace Research Policy Center
• Figshare
• Global Alliance for Partnerships on MIL
• International Association of Communication in Healthcare
• Iranian National UNESCO Commission
• Iranian World Studies Association
• Mendeley
• UNESCO Chair on E-Learning & Teaching
• UNESCO Chair on the Communication of Science & Technology
• University of Tehran

Themes & Topics:

• Disinformation, propaganda, and MIL
• MIL, elections, good governance
• Youth and the news
• Studies of the use of media, information and technology to advance MIL development among people
• MIL citizens as empowered and informed members of the society
• Promoting intercultural dialogue
• MIL and freedom of expression: Hate speech, dialogue, and engagement
• Teacher training; how to educate the educators?
• Youth: Formal/informal education, and peer education
• MIL role in privacy and protection of personal data (General Data Protection Regulation)
• MIL Futures: Innovation, best practices, challenges, the next step, where are we heading?
• Innovation, tools, state of the art technology such as artificial intelligence enhancing MIL

Speakers:

• Saied Reza Ameli

Professor of Communications, the Dean of Faculty of World Studies at University of Tehran, the Secretary of Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution, and the director of the UNESCO Chair on Cyberspace & Culture, and Cyberspace Policy Research Center

• Hojatollah Ayoubi

Secretary General of the Iranian National Commission for UNESCO, and Associate Professor at the Faculty of World Studies, University of Tehran

• Younes Shokrkhah

Head of Department of European Studies and Assistant Professor of Communications at the Faculty of World Studies, University of Tehran, journalist and the Editor in Chief of Hamshahri Online

• Ehsan Shahghasemi

Assistant Professor of Communications at the Faculty of Social Sciences at University of Tehran, and the executive board member of the UNESCO Chair on Cyberspace & Culture

• Alireza Salehi Nejad

Multidisciplinary Researcher at the Cyberspaces Research Policy Center at University of Tehran, and the executive board member of the UNESCO Chair on Cyberspace & Culture

Date/Time
Date(s) - 02/19/2019 - 02/20/2019
9:00 am - 5:00 pm

Location
SpringHill Suites San Diego

Categories

• Big Data
• Quantitative
• Seminar

Statistical Horizons is hosting a 2-day seminar, taught by Dr. Paul Allison, titled Missing Data. The course will take place in San Diego, California, from February 19-20.

Registration

This two day course hosted by Statistical Horizons is $995 for two days, which includes all materials. To register for the course CLICK HERE.

This course can be combined with Introduction to Structural Equation Modeling on February 21-22. A discount is available if you register for both courses. Email us for details.

Date/Time
Date(s) - 08/09/2018
12:30 pm - 5:00 pm

Categories

• Big Data
• Seminar

Please join the The Social and Decision Analytics Laboratory at Virginia Tech for this summer’s Data Science for the Public Good (DSPG) Symposium where DSPG students and fellows will present their research projects. This symposium will highlight how the DSPG program equips new generations of scientists with the skills they need to develop data-driven policy and decision-making.

The DSPG program focuses at the interface of data analytics and social science to address real problems at the local, state, and federal levels of government. The Symposium will include two keynote speakers followed by a poster session and networking reception.

Keynote Speakers:

• Catherine Woteki, former undersecretary for research, education and economics and chief scientist, U.S. Department of Agriculture

• Wayne Strickland, executive director, Roanoke Valley-Alleghany Regional Commission

If you are an individual with a disability and desire an accommodation, please contact Lori Conerly at loric17@vt.edu during regular business hours at least ten business days prior to the event.