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Using ChatGPT for Exploratory Data Analysis with Python, R and prompting workshop

Join our workshop on Using ChatGPT for Exploratory Data Analysis with Python, R and prompting, which is a part of our workshops for Ukraine series! 


Here’s some more info: 


Title:Using ChatGPT for Exploratory Data Analysis with Python, R and prompting


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


Speakers: Gábor Békés is an Associate Professor at the Department of Economics and Business of Central European University, a research fellow at KRTK in Hungary, and a research affiliate at CEPR. His research is focused on international economics; economic geography and applied IO, and was published among others by the Global Strategy Journal, Journal of International Economics, Regional Science and Urban Economics or Economic Policy and have authored commentary on VOXEU.org. His comprehensive textbook, Data Analysis for Business, Economics, and Policy with Gábor Kézdi was publsihed by Cambridge University Press in 2021.


Seth Stephens-Davidowitz is a data scientist and New York Times bestselling author. His 2017 book, Everybody Lies, on the secrets revealed in internet data, was a New York Times bestseller; a PBS NewsHour Book of the Year; and an Economist Book of the Year.  His 2022 book, Don’t Trust Your Gut, on how people can use data to best achieve their life goals, was excerpted in the New York Times, the Atlantic, and Wired.  Seth has worked as a data scientist at Google; a visiting lecturer at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania; and a contributing op-ed writer for the New York Times.  Seth has consulted for top companies.  He received his BA in philosophy, Phi Beta Kappa, from Stanford, and his PhD in economics from Harvard.  


Description: How can GenAI, like ChatGPT augment and speed up data exploration? Is it true that we no longer need coding skills? Or, instead, does ChatGPT hallucinate too much to be taken seriously? I will do a workshop with live prompting and coding to investigate.  I will experiment with two datasets shared ahead of the workshop.  The first comes from my Data Analysis textbook and is about football managers. Here I’ll see how close working with AI will get to what we have in the textbook, and compare codes written by us vs the machine. Second, I’ll work with a dataset I have no/little experience with and see how far it takes me. In this case, we will look at descriptive statistics, make graphs and tables, and work to improve a textual variable.  It will generate code and reports, and I’ll then check them on my laptop to see if they work. The process starts with Python but then I’ll proceed with R.


Seth Stephens-Davidowitz is writing a book in 30 days using ChatGPT’s Data Analysis.  The book is called Who Makes the NBA? and is a statistical analysis of what it takes to reach the top of basketball. Seth will illustrate his experience with one of the case studies he had worked on. The Workshop will end with Seth and Gabor chatting about their experiences in what works well


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!



















Introduction to mixed frequency data models in R workshop

Join our workshop on  Introduction to mixed frequency data models in R, which is a part of our workshops for Ukraine series! 


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Title: Introduction to mixed frequency data models in R

Date: Thursday, December 14th, 18:00 – 20:00 CEST (Rome, Berlin, Paris timezone)

Speaker:Jonas Striaukas, Jonas is an assistant professor of statistics and finance and Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action fellow at the Copenhagen Business School, Department of Finance. His main research interests are econometrics/statistics and applications of machine learning methods to financial and macro econometrics. In particular, Jonas research interests are regularized regression models for mixed frequency data and factor-augmented sparse regression models. Before joining the Copenhagen Business School in 2022, he was a research fellow at the Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique—FNRS and Université Catholique de Louvain, where he carried out my PhD under the supervision of prof. Andrii Babii (UNC Chapel Hill) and prof. Eric Ghysels (UNC Chapel Hill).

Description: The course will cover statistical models for mixed frequency data analysis and their applications using R statistical software. First, we will look into classical mixed frequency, called MIDAS, regression models and their applications to nowcasting. We will then cover multivariate models such vector autoregression (VAR) and their application in mixed frequency data settings. Lastly, we will cover regularized MIDAS regressions and its extension to factor-augmented regression case.

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!









Using ChatGPT for Exploratory Data Analysis with Python, R and prompting

Join our workshop on Using ChatGPT for Exploratory Data Analysis with Python, R and prompting, which is a part of our workshops for Ukraine series! 


Here’s some more info: 


Title:Using ChatGPT for Exploratory Data Analysis with Python, R and prompting


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


Speaker: Gábor Békés is an Associate Professor at the Department of Economics and Business of Central European University, a research fellow at KRTK in Hungary, and a research affiliate at CEPR. His research is focused on international economics; economic geography and applied IO, and was published among others by the Global Strategy Journal, Journal of International Economics, Regional Science and Urban Economics or Economic Policy and have authored commentary on VOXEU.org. His comprehensive textbook, Data Analysis for Business, Economics, and Policy with Gábor Kézdi was publsihed by Cambridge University Press in 2021. 


Description: How can GenAI, like ChatGPT augment and speed up data exploration? Is it true that we no longer need coding skills? Or, instead, does ChatGPT hallucinate too much to be taken seriously? I will do a workshop with live prompting and coding to investigate.  I will experiment with two datasets shared ahead of the workshop.  The first comes from my Data Analysis textbook and is about football managers. Here I’ll see how close working with AI will get to what we have in the textbook, and compare codes written by us vs the machine. Second, I’ll work with a dataset I have no/little experience with and see how far it takes me. In this case, we will look at descriptive statistics, make graphs and tables, and work to improve a textual variable.  It will generate code and reports, and I’ll then check them on my laptop to see if they work. The process starts with Python but then I’ll proceed with R.


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!


















Visualising connection in R workshop

Join our workshop on Visualising connection in R, which is a part of our workshops for Ukraine series! 

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Title: Visualising connection in R
Date: Thursday, November 9th, 19:00 – 21:00 CEST (Rome, Berlin, Paris timezone)
Speaker: Rita Giordano is a freelance data visualisation consultant and scientific illustrator based in the UK. By training, she is a physicist who holds a PhD in statistics applied to structural biology. She has extensive experience in research and data science. Furthermore, she has over fourteen years of professional experience working with R. She is also a LinkedIn instructor. You can find her course “Build Advanced Charts with R” on LinkedIn Learning.
Description: How to show connection? It depends on the connection we want to visualise. We could use a network, chord, or Sankey diagram.  The workshop will focus on how to visualise connections using chord diagrams. We will explore how to create a chord diagram with the {circlize} package.  In the final part of the workshop, I will briefly mention how to create a Sankey diagram with networkD3. Attendees need to have installed the {circlize} and {networkD3} packages.  
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!





Network Analysis with R workshop

Join our workshop on Network Analysis with R, which is a part of our workshops for Ukraine series! 

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Title: Network Analysis with R

Date: Thursday, October 26th, 18:00 – 20:00 CEST (Rome, Berlin, Paris timezone)

Speaker: David Schoch is the team lead for “Transparent Social Analytics” in the Department Computational Social Science at GESIS in Cologne. Before joining GESIS, David was a Presidential Fellow in the Department of Sociology at the University of Manchester, affiliated with the “Mitchell Centre for Social Network Analysis”. He has a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Konstanz and is the creator and maintainer of several network analysis R packages.

Description: Network analysis is a multidisciplinary field that delves into the intricate web of connections and interactions among entities, whether they are individuals, organizations, or nodes in a complex system. By employing graph theory, statistical methods, and computational tools, network analysis unveils the hidden patterns, structures, and dynamics that underlie these relationships.

In this workshop, I will introduce the package ecosystem for network analysis in R. I provide an overview of the key packages to conduct network studies and discuss some practical aspects. No network theory will be introduced, but I provide pointers for those who are interested to learn more beyond practical skills.

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!


Introduction to Topic Modelling in R and Python workshop

Join our workshop on Introduction to Topic Modelling in R and Python, which is a part of our workshops for Ukraine series! 


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Title: Introduction to Topic Modelling in R and Python

Date: Thursday, October 19th, 18:00 – 20:00 CEST (Rome, Berlin, Paris timezone)

Speaker: Christian Czymara is a postdoc fellow at Tel Aviv University. His research focuses on attitudes, immigration, and political communication using quantitative and computational methods as well as natural language processing.

Description: This workshop offers an in-depth exploration of topic models, which allow extracting meaningful insights from extensive text corpora while minimizing the reliance on prior assumptions or annotated data. The workshop will start with the basics of text data preprocessing and progress to a general understanding of the underlying principles of topic modeling. It will cover a range of topic modeling techniques, such as Structural Topic Models, BiTerm, and Keyword Assisted Topic Models in R, and BERTopic in Python. We will explore the cases where each model is particularly promising. Participants will learn about the practical considerations when choosing a topic modeling algorithm, and how to apply these techniques to their own data. The lecture will be of interest to researchers and practitioners who are interested in extracting insights from large volumes of textual data, such as social media, news articles, or scientific publications.

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!



Introduction to Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA)

Join our workshop on Introduction to Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) using R, which is a part of our workshops for Ukraine series! 


Here’s some more info: 

Title: Introduction to Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) using R

Date: Thursday, October 5th, 18:00 – 20:00 CEST (Rome, Berlin, Paris timezone)

Speaker: Ingo Rohlfing, Ingo Rohlfing is Professor of Methods of Empirical Social Research at the University of Passau. He is doing research on social science methods with a focus on qualitative methods (case studies and process tracing), Qualitative Comparative Analysis, multimethod research and research integrity.

Description: What are the conditions that produce stable coalition governments? What conditions are necessary for married couples not getting divorced? If you are interested in research questions like these or similar ones, QCA should be one of the first methods to consider for answering them. QCA is the go-to method for analyzing set relationships using any number of cases (small, medium, large) and with any kind of data (micro, meso, macro).

The participants of this course are introduced to the fundamentals of set relations and QCA, and the workflow of a QCA study using R. You are be introduced to the basic principles and requirements of coherent QCA designs and learn how to implement them using R. We cover all fundamental steps of a QCA study, including calibration; a necessity analysis (potentially); truth table formation; truth table minimization and interpretation of results. 


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!

Deep Learning with torch in R workshop

Join our workshop on Introduction to Deep Learning with torch in R, which is a part of our workshops for Ukraine series! 


Here’s some more info: 


Title: Deep Learning with torch in R

Date: Thursday, September 28th, 18:00 – 20:00 CEST (Rome, Berlin, Paris timezone)

Speaker: Daniel Falbel, Daniel is a software engineer at Posit and maintains the ‘torch’ R package and its ecosystem. He previously maintained the TensorFlow and Keras packages.

Description: Deep Learning has grown exponentially in recent years and has powered breakthroughs in fields such as computer vision and natural language processing. In this workshop you will learn the basics of torch and its ecosystem, build and train deep learning models with torch.

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!




An Introduction to Bayesian A/B Testing in Stan, R, and Python workshop

Join our workshop on Introduction to An Introduction to Bayesian A/B Testing in Stan, R, and Python, which is a part of our workshops for Ukraine series! 

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Title: An Introduction to Bayesian A/B Testing in Stan, R, and Python

Date: Thursday, September 14th, 18:00 – 20:00 CEST (Rome, Berlin, Paris timezone)

Speaker: Jordan Nafa is a Data Scientist at Game Data Pros, Inc. where his work centers around Bayesian A/B Testing, stochastic optimization, and applied causal inference for revenue optimization, promotional pricing, and personalized targeting in video games. He is also a Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science at the University of North Texas where he previously taught undergraduate courses in causal inference, applied statistics, and American political behavior.

Description: This workshop will cover a basic introduction to Bayesian inference, A/B Testing, and decision theory for the analysis of large-scale field experiments in industry settings. After introducing the foundations of the Bayesian approach to A/B Testing, we will work through real-world examples using the probabilistic programming language Stan along with its R and Python interfaces.

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!



Introduction to Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) using R workshop

Join our workshop on Introduction to Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) using R, which is a part of our workshops for Ukraine series! 

Here’s some more info: 

Title: Introduction to Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) using R

Date: Thursday, August 31st, 18:00 – 20:00 CEST (Rome, Berlin, Paris timezone)

Speaker: Ingo Rohlfing, Ingo Rohlfing is Professor of Methods of Empirical Social Research at the University of Passau. He is doing research on social science methods with a focus on qualitative methods (case studies and process tracing), Qualitative Comparative Analysis, multimethod research and research integrity.

Description:What are the conditions that produce stable coalition governments? What conditions are necessary for married couples not getting divorced? If you are interested in research questions like these or similar ones, QCA should be one of the first methods to consider for answering them. QCA is the go-to method for analyzing set relationships using any number of cases (small, medium, large) and with any kind of data (micro, meso, macro).

The participants of this course are introduced to the fundamentals of set relations and QCA, and the workflow of a QCA study using R. You are be introduced to the basic principles and requirements of coherent QCA designs and learn how to implement them using R. We cover all fundamental steps of a QCA study, including calibration; a necessity analysis (potentially); truth table formation; truth table minimization and interpretation of results. 

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!