How longitudinal data empower NGOs, journalists, and policymakers
Speaker: Vytenis Deimantas (SHARE Berlin Institute)
This webinar introduced how longitudinal and cohort data can strengthen decision-making and communication across public institutions, media, and civil society.
Bridging the gap: How to connect social research with the public and policymakers
Speakers: Ruxandra Comănaru (City St George’s, University of London) and Yuliya Kazakova (Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute, NIDI)
This webinar explored how insights from social research can better reach and benefit both the public and policymakers.
Exploring secondary and archival data in social science research: An introduction
Speaker: Cara Booker (Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex)
This webinar provided an introduction into secondary and archival social science data, including where to find the data, how sampling will impact analyses and examples of secondary social science data analysis.
Data-driven insights for a green, digital, healthy, strong and equal Europe
Speakers: Julia Geistberger and Lisa Hirsch (AUSSDA | Vienna University Library)
The webinar showcased how participants of the second project Hackathon transformed panel survey data into recommendations for fostering sustainable policies.
Reproducible Workflows in R using the renv and targets packages
Speaker: Franz Eder (University of Innsbruck)
Participants learned how to use the renv-package to create reproducible environments for their R projects, and were introduced to the targets-package which enables them to maintain a reproducible workflow.
Accessing data from established European social science research programmes
Speakers: Sergeja Masten and Irena Vipavc Brvar (Slovenian Social Science Data Archives, ABP)
This webinar addressed how to access data from established European social science research programmes.
Using major European social surveys to answer research questions
Speakers: Yuliya Kazakova (NIDI), David Consolazio (University of Milan) and Ruxandra Comănaru (City St George’s, University of London)
Three research fellows shared their experiences in navigating the wealth of publicly available survey data.
Data protection in research – EU regulations, open science and anonymisation
Speakers: Anita Bodlos (University of Innsbruck) and Lisa Hirsch (University of Vienna)
The webinar explained how researchers can meet the requirements of European data protection laws while adhering to open science principles.
Data visualisation with R Studio and Jupyter
Speaker: Franz Eder (University of Innsbruck)
This webinar introduced the basics of visualisation, the criteria for good science graphics, the process of visualising data, and the role of colours and fonts. The second part of the webinar covered ggplot2 and its functions to create state-of-the-art plots.
Research Data Management: How to organise your research data and make your life easier
Speakers: Anita Bodlos (University of Innsbruck) and Lisa Hirsch (University of Vienna)
The webinar provided an overview of research data management in the social sciences and explained how best practices throughout the research data life cycle can be implemented.
