Author: Dariia Mykhailyshyna

PhD Student in Economics at the University of Bologna

Structural Equation Modeling in R with the Lavaan package workshop

Learn how to use Structural Equation modeling in R! Join our workshop on Structural Equation Modeling in R with the Lavaan package which is a part of our workshops for Ukraine series. 


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Title: Structural Equation Modeling in R with the Lavaan package


Date: Thursday, March 30th, 18:00 – 20:00 CEST (Rome, Berlin, Paris timezone) 


Speaker: Nino Gugushvili is a post-Doc researcher at the Department of Work and Social Psychology at Maastricht University.


Description: In this workshop, we will go over the basics of structural equation modelling (SEM). We will talk about what SEM is and cover the essential steps of SEM. Next, we will learn path analysis (SEM with observed variables), confirmatory factor analysis, and full SEM (SEM with latent variables + observed variables). Along the way, we will also talk about revising our models and interpreting the results, and we’ll do all this in R, using the Lavaan package.


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




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!





Generalized Additive Models in R workshop

Learn how to fit Generalized Additive Models in R! Join our workshop on Generalized Additive Models in R which is a part of our workshops for Ukraine series. 


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Title: Generalized Additive Models in R


Date: Thursday, April 13th, 18:00 – 20:00 CEST (Rome, Berlin, Paris timezone)


Speaker: Gavin Simpson, Gavin is a statistical ecologist and freshwater ecologist/palaeoecologist. He has a B.Sc. in Environmental Geography and a Ph.D. in Geography from University College London (UCL), UK. After submitting his Ph.D. thesis in 2001, Gavin worked as an environmental consultant and research scientist in the Department of Geography, UCL, before moving, in 2013, to a research position at the Institute of Environmental Change and Society, University of Regina, Canada. Gavin moved back to Europe in 2021 and is now Assistant Professor of Applied Statistics in the Department of Animal and Veterinary Sciences at Aarhus University, Denmark. Gavin’s research broadly concerns how populations and ecosystems change over time and respond to disturbance, at time scales from minutes and hours, to centuries and millennia. Gavin has developed several R packages, including gratia, analogue, and cocorresp, he helps maintain the vegan package, and can often be found answering R- and GAM-related questions on StackOverflow and CrossValidated.



Description: Generalized Additive Models (GAMs) were introduced as an extension to linear and generalized linear models, where the relationships between the response and covariates are not specified up-front by the analyst but are learned from the data themselves. This learning is achieved by representing the effect of a covariate on the response as a smooth function, rather than following a fixed form (linear, quadratic, etc). GAMs are a large and flexible class of models that are widely used in applied research because of their flexibility and interpretability.

The workshop will explain what a GAM is and how penalized splines and automatic smoothness selection methods work, before focusing on the practical aspects of fitting GAMs to data using the mgcv R package, and will be most useful to people who already have some familiarity with linear and generalized linear models.



Minimal registration fee: 20 euro (or 20 USD or 750 UAH)




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!




Working with ChatGPT in R workshop

Learn how to use ChatGPT to improve your coding skills in R! Join our workshop on Working with ChatGPT in R which is a part of our workshops for Ukraine series. 


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Title: Working with ChatGPT in R


Date: Thursday, March 9th, 18:00 – 20:00 CET (Rome, Berlin, Paris timezone) 


Speaker: Dariia Mykhailyshyna, PhD Economics student at the University of Bologna. Previously worked at a Ukrainian think tank Centre of Economic Strategy


Description: In this workshop we will learn how you can fully harness the power of ChatGPT to improve your R coding. We will learn how to access ChatGPT directly from R, how to make it write R code, including fairly long and complicated command, debug its (and your) code, translate code from one coding language to another, comment your code, make it more efficient and more! We will also explore some of the drawbacks of ChatGPT and examine when and why you can’t always rely on it.


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




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!






Survival Analysis with R and Python workshop

Learn more about Survival Analysis and how to apply it both in R and in Python! Join our workshop on Survival Analysis with R and Python which is a part of our workshops for Ukraine series. 
Here’s some more info: 
Title: Survival Analysis with R and Python
Date: Thursday, March 16th, 18:00 – 20:00 CET (Rome, Berlin, Paris timezone) 
Speaker: Christopher Peters is the Principal Data Scientist and ninth employee at Zapier where the mission is to make automation work for everyone. For the last decade, he’s applied survival analysis in R and Python, along with statistics and econometrics to affect positive change for people. He learned many of his skills through self-study with friends as well as during his education at Louisiana State University where he completed his terminal degree, Masters of Applied Statistics. There he was privileged to be advised by reliability analysis giant, Professor Luis A. Escobar. His committee also included co-founder of Penalized B-splines and co-author of The Joys of P-Splines, Professor Brian Marx. As well as Emeritus Professor of Econometrics R. Carter Hill, co-author of Principles of Econometrics. Christopher was recently invited to review the book Statistical Methods for Reliability Data, 2nd Edition, co-authored by Distinguished Professor William Q. Meeker, Professor Luis A. Escobar, and Emeritus Associate Professor Francis G. Pascual. He also recently reviewed Telling Stories with Data by Assistant Professor Rohan Alexander. He loves being in nature and his interests lie in the interactions of technology and nature and span a wide variety of topics related to business, economics and causal inference. You can find him on Twitter at: @statwonk or at http://statwonk.com.
Description: How can we speed up growth? Bring about or prevent important events? Design technology and human processes for high-reliability? Survival Analysis (time-to-event) allows us to wisely answer these questions by allowing us to accurately and precisely allocate credibility among their possible answers. Our interest in future events is insatiable for many serious reasons. Through the benefit of systemization, we can use time-to-event analysis to better understand the possibilities of future events and how they can be reconfigured for the benefit of people and ourselves. Whether it’s causing or preventing important events, or just better understanding them, time-to-event analysis (aka survival or reliability analysis) affords us these abilities through the benefits of systemization. In this two hour workshop, I’ll give a gentle introduction to industrial and commercial application of time-to-event analysis technology in R and Python side-by-side. The workshop will focus on how you can best get started with these technologies and begin to answer these questions yourself on a deeper-level for the purpose of innovation. As part of that, I’ll share what I’ve learned over a decade of applying this high-technology in the SaaS software industry.
Minimal registration fee: 20 euro (or 20 USD or 750 UAH)


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!



A Gentle and Applied Introduction to Rcpp workshop

Learn how to use Rcpp package, while contributing to charity! Join our workshop on A Gentle and Applied Introduction to Rcpp to improve your skills which is a part of our workshops for Ukraine series. 
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Title: A Gentle and Applied Introduction to Rcpp
Date: Thursday, February 9th, 18:00 – 20:00 CET (Rome, Berlin, Paris timezone)  
Speaker: Dirk Eddelbuettel is involved with many R packages on CRAN; co-creator of the Rocker Project providing R Docker containers; the Debian/Ubuntu maintainer for R, many CRAN packages, and some other quantitative software; behind several initiatives to make binary packages more easily available ranging from Quantian to the more recent r2u Project; an elected board member of the R Foundation; an adjunct Clinical Professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; an editor at the Journal of Statistical Software; and a Principal Software Engineer at TileDB. He holds a MA and PhD in Mathematical Economics from EHESS in France, and a MSc in Industrial Engineering from KIT in Germany.

Description: R has become the lingua franca of statistical research and applications.  It provides an open and extensible system for which the Rcpp package has become the most widely-used package for extending R via native code.  This talk aims to gently introduce going to compiled code without fear thanks to sophisticated tooling R and Rcpp provide which make the otherwise complicated and sometimes feared steps of compiling, linking, loading, and launching compiled code a relative breeze that is accessible directly from R relying on built-in converters to facilitate exchange to and from R for all key data types. The talk will highlight key aspects, and motivations, of using Rcpp—and will also warn of a few common pitfalls. The second half will be centered around a complete worked example of a package using RcppArmadillo that we will build from scratch. Pointers for further study as well as to additional examples will also be provided.
Minimal registration fee: 20 euro (or 20 USD or 750 UAH)


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!



Working with image data in R workshop

Learn how to work with image data in R! Join our workshop on working with image data in R which is a part of our workshops for Ukraine series. 
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Title: Working with image data in R
Date: Thursday, March 23rd, 15:00 – 17:00 CET (Rome, Berlin, Paris timezone)
Speaker: Wolfgang Huber is the author of several R packages for statistical analysis of “omics” data and a co-founder of the Bioconductor project. He co-authored the textbook Modern Statistics for Modern Biology with Susan Holmes. He has worked on cellular phenotyping from genetic and chemical screens and is a co-author of the EBImage package). He is a senior group leader at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory, where he co-directs the Molecular Medicine Partnership Unit and the Theory Transversal Theme. Scientific Homepage is here

Description: Images are a rich source of data. In this workshop, we will see how quantitative information can be extracted from images. We will use segmentation to identify objects, measure their properties such as size, intensity distribution moments, shape and morphology descriptors, and explore statistical models to describe spatial relationships between them. The workshop includes a hands-on demonstration of the EBImage package for R, which provides many functions for feature extraction and visualization. Application examples will be taken from biological imaging of cells and tissues, the methods should also be applicable to other types of data.

Minimal registration fee: 20 euro (or 20 USD or 750 UAH)


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!



Python for R users workshop

Learn how to combine both R and Python in the same project! Join our workshop on Python for R Users to learn more about Python & how to combine it with R which is a part of our workshops for Ukraine series. 
Here’s some more info: 
Title: Python for R users
Date: Thursday, February 16th, 18:00 – 20:00 CET (Rome, Berlin, Paris timezone) 
Speaker: Dr. Johannes B. Gruber, Post-Doc Researcher at the Department of Communication Science at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and open-source developer.
Description: R users sometimes hear about the fabulous advantages of Python for advanced data science and modelling. While these claims are regularly exaggerated, it never hurts to be able to use more tools. This workshop will teach you to use Python together with R in the same project. That way, you can keep using the data science tool chain you already know and like in R (e.g., data processing and plotting), while employing tools from the Python world where needed, for example, for modelling. The workshop will include unsupervised machine learning with scikit-learn and BERTopic. We use the excellent reticulate package in a quarto+RStudio workflow to accomplish this, yet the knowledge is transferable to other tools.
Minimal registration fee: 20 euro (or 20 USD or 750 UAH)


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!


Color Palette Choice and Customization in R and ggplot2 workshop

Learn how to use color palettes and customize your ggplot plots, while contributing to charity! Join our workshop on Color Palette Choice and Customization in R and ggplot2   to improve your ggplot plots which is a part of our workshops for Ukraine series. 
Here’s some more info: 
Title: Color Palette Choice and Customization in R and ggplot2
Date: Thursday, January 26th, 17:00 – 20:00 CET (Rome, Berlin, Paris timezone) 
Speaker: Dr. Cédric Scherer, independent data visualization designer, consultant, and instructor and graduated computational ecologist from Berlin, Germany. Cédric has created visualizations across all disciplines, purposes, and styles and regularly teaches data visualization principles, the R programming language, and ggplot2. Due to regular participation in social data challenges such as #TidyTuesday, he is now well known for complex and visually appealing figures, entirely made with ggplot2.

Description: In this workshop, we will first cover the basics of color usage in data visualization. Afterward, we will explore different color palettes that are available in R, discuss which extension packages are exceptional in terms of palettes and functionality, and learn how to customize palettes and scales in ggplot2.
Minimal registration fee: 20 euro (or 20 USD or 750 UAH)


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!


Using Google Trends and GDELT datasets to explore societal trends

Learn how to use novel datasets such as Google Trends and GDELT, while contributing to charity! Join our workshop on Using Google Trends and GDELT datasets to explore societal trends which is a part of our workshops for Ukraine series. 
Here’s some more info: 
Title: Using Google Trends and GDELT datasets to explore societal trends
Date: Thursday, January 12th 18:00 – 20:00 CET (Rome, Berlin, Paris time zone)
Speaker: Harald Puhr, PhD in international business and assistant professor at the University of Innsbruck. His research and teaching focuses on global strategy, international finance, and data science/methods—primarily with R. As part of his research, Harald developed the globaltrends package (available on CRAN) to handle large-scale downloads from Google Trends.
Description: Researchers and analysts are frequently interested in what topics matter for societies. These insights are applied to research fields ranging from Economics to Epidemiology to better understand market demand, political change, or the spread of infectious diseases. In this workshop, we consider Google Trends and GDELT (Global Database of Events, Language, and Tone) as two datasets that help us to explore what matters for societies and whether these issues matter everywhere. We will use these datasets in R and Google Big Query for analysis of online search volume and media reports, and we will discuss what they can tell us about topics that move societies.
Minimal registration fee: 20 euro (or 20 USD or 750 UAH)


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!

Introduction to efficiency analysis in R workshop

Learn how to use Introduction to efficiency analysis in R, while contributing to charity! Join our workshop on Introduction to efficiency analysis in R that is a part of our workshops for Ukraine series. 

Here’s some more info: 
Title: Introduction to efficiency analysis in R
Date: Thursday, November 17th, 18:00 – 20:00 CEST (Rome, Berlin, Paris timezone)
Speaker: Olha Halytsia, PhD Economics student at the Technical University of Munich. She has a previous working experience in research within the World Bank project, also worked at the National Bank of Ukraine.
Description: In this workshop, we will cover all steps of efficiency analysis using production data.  Firstly, we will introduce the notion of efficiency with a special focus on technical efficiency and briefly discuss parametric (stochastic frontier model) and non-parametric approaches to efficiency estimation (data envelopment analysis). Subsequently, with help of “Benchmarking” and “frontier” R packages, we will get estimates of technical efficiency and discuss the implications of our analysis. This workshop may be useful for beginners who are interested in working with input-output data and want to learn how R can be used for econometric production analysis.
Minimal registration fee: 20 euro (or 20 USD or 750 UAH)

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!