Montréal Methods Workshop
A monthly hour-long discussion where researchers from various disciplines and institutions share best practices and training for quantitative research projects in social sciences.
Workshops are held on Thursdays at 1PM Montréal time on Zoom. All are welcome!
The current organizing committee includes students and professors from the Université de Montréal and McGill University: Prof. Vincent Arel-Bundock, Prof. Elissa Berwick and Prof. Aaron Erlich.
Calendar 2021-2022
| Title | Presenter | Date &Time | Location |
| Bundled Causal Inference | Zachary Markovich (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) | February 24, 1pm | Zoom |
| A (Brief) Introduction to Images as Data and Convolutional Neural Nets | Nora Webb Williams (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) | January 27, 1pm | Zoom |
Past events
| Title | Presenter | Date &Time | Location |
| “Such a nuisance (parameter): Interactions & cross-model comparisons in binary response models” | Shawna N. Smith (University of Michigan) | Friday, 19 June 2020, 1pm | Zoom |
| “How to survive (and thrive) in academia: a practical guide” | Mirya Holman (Tulane University) | Thursday, 7 May 2020, 1pm | Zoom |
| “Word Embeddings: What works, what doesn’t, and how to tell the difference for applied research” | Arthur Spirling (New York University) | Thursday, 30 April 2020, 1pm | Zoom |
| “Régression Multi-Niveau pour les Nuls” | Vincent Arel-Bundock (Université de Montréal) | Friday, 24 April 2020, 1pm | Zoom |
| “Visualize as You Randomize: Design-Based Statistical Graphs for Randomized Experiments” Demo. | Alexander Coppock (Yale University) | Friday, 17 April 2020, 1pm | Zoom |
| “Multilevel Modeling and Omitted Variable Bias” | John Poe (University of Michigan) | Friday, 10 April 2020, 1pm | Zoom |
| “What Do We Learn About Voter Preferences From Conjoint Experiments?” | Korhan Koçak (Princeton University) | Friday, 3 April 2020, 1pm | Zoom |
| “Writing in LaTeX” | Semra Sevi (Université de Montréal) | Thursday, 26 March 2020, 1pm | Zoom |
| “Designing a Survey on Qualtrics” | Semra Sevi (Université de Montréal) | Thursday, 27 February 2020, 1pm | UdeM |
| “Regression Discontinuity Designs” | John Holbein (University of Virginia) | Thursday, 20 February 2020, 1pm | UdeM |
| “Quantitative Text Analysis Workshop” | Annika Fredén (Karlstad University) and Sverker Sikström (Lund University) | Friday, 17 January 2020, 1pm | UdeM |
| “Why Replications Do Not Fix the Reproducibility Crisis: A Model and Evidence from a Large-Scale Vignette Experiment” | Jamie Druckman (Northwestern University) | Friday, 2 November 2018, 1pm | UdeM |