surveydown: An Open-Source, Markdown-Based Platform for Interactive and Reproducible Surveys workshop

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Join our workshop on surveydown: An Open-Source, Markdown-Based Platform for Interactive and Reproducible Surveys, which is a part of our workshops for Ukraine series! 


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Title:surveydown: An Open-Source, Markdown-Based Platform for Interactive and Reproducible Surveys

Date: Thursday, May 29th, 18:00 – 20:00 CET (Rome, Berlin, Paris timezone)

Speaker: John Paul Helveston, John Paul (JP) is an Assistant Professor at George Washington University in the Department of Engineering Management and Systems Engineering. His research focuses on understanding how consumer preferences, market dynamics, and policy affect the emergence and adoption of low-carbon technologies, such as electric vehicles and renewable energy technologies. He also studies the critical relationship between the US and China in developing and mass producing these technologies. He has expertise in discrete choice modeling, conjoint analysis, exploratory data analysis, interview-based research methods, and the R programming language. He speaks fluent Mandarin Chinese and has conducted extensive fieldwork in China. He is also an accomplished violinist and swing dancer. John holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in Engineering and Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon University and a B.S. in Engineering Science and Mechanics (ESM) from Virginia Tech.

Description: This workshop introduces the surveydown R package and survey platform. With surveydown, researchers can create reproducible, interactive surveys using markdown and R code chunks, leveraging the Quarto publication system and R shiny web application framework. While most survey platforms rely on graphical interfaces or spreadsheets to define survey content, surveydown uses plain text, enabling version control and collaboration via tools like GitHub. The package renders surveys as interactive shiny web applications, allowing for complex features like conditional skip logic, dynamic question display, and complex randomization. The package supports a diverse set of question types and formatting options and users can leverage shiny’s powerful reactive programming model to create a wide variety of customized interactive features. As an open-source tool, surveydown provides researchers full control over their survey implementation, including the survey application as well as where and how the resulting response data are stored. Workflows are entirely reproducible and integrate seamlessly with existing workflows for data collection and analysis in R. At this workshop, you’ll not only learn how to build and deploy your own interactive surveys using surveydown, but also how you can join the growing community of contributors to the project.

Minimal registration fee: 20 euro (or 20 USD or 800 UAH)



Please note that the registration confirmation is sent 1 day before the workshop to all registered participants rather than immediately after registration


How can I register?



  • Save your donation receipt (after the donation is processed, there is an option to enter your email address on the website to which the donation receipt is sent)

  • Fill in the registration form, attaching a screenshot of a donation receipt (please attach the screenshot of the donation receipt that was emailed to you rather than the page you see after donation).

If you are not personally interested in attending, you can also contribute by sponsoring a participation of a student, who will then be able to participate for free. If you choose to sponsor a student, all proceeds will also go directly to organisations working in Ukraine. You can either sponsor a particular student or you can leave it up to us so that we can allocate the sponsored place to students who have signed up for the waiting list.


How can I sponsor a student?


  • Save your donation receipt (after the donation is processed, there is an option to enter your email address on the website to which the donation receipt is sent)

  • Fill in the sponsorship form, attaching the screenshot of the donation receipt (please attach the screenshot of the donation receipt that was emailed to you rather than the page you see after the donation). You can indicate whether you want to sponsor a particular student or we can allocate this spot ourselves to the students from the waiting list. You can also indicate whether you prefer us to prioritize students from developing countries when assigning place(s) that you sponsored.


If you are a university student and cannot afford the registration fee, you can also sign up for the waiting list here. (Note that you are not guaranteed to participate by signing up for the waiting list).



You can also find more information about this workshop series,  a schedule of our future workshops as well as a list of our past workshops which you can get the recordings & materials here.


Looking forward to seeing you during the workshop!










 





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Dariia Mykhailyshyna

PhD Student in Economics at the University of Bologna

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