Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Design-Based Analysis of Survey Data (September 24, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/66470 66470-16736454@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 24, 2019 9:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Please join instructor Brady T. West of the University Of Michigan's Program in Survey Methodology, as he conducts a half-day workshop titled "Design-Based Analysis of Survey Data". This workshop is designed for survey data analysts of all skill levels, and will present theoretically appropriate methods of analyzing survey data collected from complex sample designs. Dr. West will also present the implications of incorrect analyses based on his research findings from a meta-analysis of analytic error, while also providing examples of proper design-based data analysis techniques using SAS and Stata. As always, this workshop is free and open to the public.

Topics include:

• Overview of theoretically appropriate design-based analysis of survey data collected from complex samples

• Case studies in analytic error (including findings from a meta-analysis of recent scientific publications), and the implications of using incorrect analysis methods

• Appropriate use of survey weights and design-based methods of variance estimation for population inference related to descriptive parameters and regression models

• Examples of proper design-based data analysis techniques using SAS and Stata (attendees are also welcome to ask about similar methods in other software packages)

BIO:

Dr. West's current research interests include the implications of measurement error in auxiliary variables and survey paradata for survey estimation, survey nonresponse, interviewer variance, and multilevel regression models for clustered and longitudinal data. He is the lead author of the book Linear Mixed Models: A Practical Guide Using Statistical Software and co-author of the book Applied Survey Data Analysis.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 05 Sep 2019 17:09:44 -0400 2019-09-24T09:00:00-04:00 2019-09-24T13:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar poster for Design-Based Analysis of Survey Data
ISR CoderSpace with Paul Schulz (September 24, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67427 67427-16849187@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 24, 2019 10:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Paul Schulz is a senior consulting statistician and data scientist for ISR's Population Dynamics and Health Program. He specializes in statistical methods and computing, including hypothesis testing, data analysis and modelling, sampling (including weight creation and adjustment), and power calculation), as well as the use of secure computing enclaves (SRCVDI, Likert cluster, and Flux/Great Lakes). Paul writes code in Stata and SAS for general purpose desktop computing, and R and Python for selected applications, such as data visualization and web scraping/automation, among other uses.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 01 Nov 2019 10:06:55 -0400 2019-09-24T10:00:00-04:00 2019-09-24T11:30:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar CoderSpaces at ISR
Michigan Program in Survey Methodology and the Joint Program in Survey Methodology Seminar Series (September 25, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66679 66679-16770194@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 25, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science

Improving Data Quality for Web Surveys in Real Time through Predictive Modeling Using Paradata

Paradata are a rich source of data that are collected through little additional effort by researchers. However, paradata are often underutilized. This study suggests a novel approach to use paradata to alter the survey itself in real time in order to improve data quality.

Through a predictive model, paradata about the responses will be utilized to alter the presentation of the survey questions themselves. First, if respondents straight-line through a grid section of the survey, following grids could be changed to single item questions in order to discourage straight-lining. Second, if respondents display multiple indicators of poor data quality, key questions could be moved forward in the survey to present earlier. This second option reduces survey length, lowers cognitive burden for respondents that are taking short cuts, and prevents drop-offs. Both of these techniques could help to improve data quality.

Though programming a survey to adapt in real time may involve a large effort in the beginning, once employed it could be used across projects for little additional cost. Improving data quality should be a goal of everyone in the survey research community. As web surveys continue to increase in frequency of implementation, the focus on data quality of this mode should be a priority.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 09 Sep 2019 13:22:32 -0400 2019-09-25T12:00:00-04:00 2019-09-25T13:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science Workshop / Seminar Seminar flyer
ISR CoderSpace with Paul Schulz (October 1, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67427 67427-16849188@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 1, 2019 10:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Paul Schulz is a senior consulting statistician and data scientist for ISR's Population Dynamics and Health Program. He specializes in statistical methods and computing, including hypothesis testing, data analysis and modelling, sampling (including weight creation and adjustment), and power calculation), as well as the use of secure computing enclaves (SRCVDI, Likert cluster, and Flux/Great Lakes). Paul writes code in Stata and SAS for general purpose desktop computing, and R and Python for selected applications, such as data visualization and web scraping/automation, among other uses.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 01 Nov 2019 10:06:55 -0400 2019-10-01T10:00:00-04:00 2019-10-01T11:30:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar CoderSpaces at ISR
Writing a Competitive Research Grant Proposal (October 2, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/66542 66542-16744994@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 2, 2019 9:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: OVPR Office of Research Development

This workshop discusses writing grant proposals for various sponsors, including federal agencies (e.g., NIH, NSF) and foundation funders.
Topics include:
-Resources at U-M to help you find funding opportunities and develop proposals
-Self-assessment
-Analyzing sponsors
-How the review process works
-How to write various proposals sections
-General writing tips

Email Jill Jividen at jjgoff@umich.edu with questions.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 09 Sep 2019 08:52:54 -0400 2019-10-02T09:00:00-04:00 2019-10-02T12:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research OVPR Office of Research Development Workshop / Seminar
Michigan Program in Survey Methodology and the Joint Program in Survey Methodology Seminar Series (October 2, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66680 66680-16770195@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 2, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science

Switching away from web surveys: what can we learn from JavaScript "OnBlur" functions about response behavior?

The increase in web surveys allows researchers to collect a variety of paradata alongside traditional survey responses. Some paradata, such as response times, enjoy a long tradition in survey research, but others, such as window/tab switching, are only rarely used in survey research. In this talk, I focus on the usefulness and usability of JavaScript "OnBlur" functions informing about how often and for how long respondents switch away from web surveys. For this purpose, I present the results of two empirical studies: the first study explores the impact of on-device multitasking, such as switching away to check social media notifications, on response behavior. The second study, in contrast, focuses on the consequences of looking up answers online for measuring political knowledge. The talk ends with a discussion of further fields of application for JavaScript "OnBlur" functions in survey research.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 09 Sep 2019 13:29:55 -0400 2019-10-02T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-02T13:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science Workshop / Seminar Seminar flyer
ISR CoderSpace with Jule Krüger (October 3, 2019 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67432 67432-16849217@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 3, 2019 2:30pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Dr. Krüger is the ISR program manager for big data and data science, based within the Center for Political Studies. She has more than 10 years of experience in processing, analyzing and interpreting data for social science research. An expert on data generating processes, triangulating multiple databases, and expanding methodology for researching difficult to observe populations, Dr. Krüger has proficient knowledge in computer programming, statistical analysis and scientific methodology. Using a combination of R, Python, Markdown, Make, bash, LaTeX and version control, she is experienced in automating research workflows for scalable, auditable and reproducible analysis. In this CoderSpace, the primary focus is on the Python programming language, but coders working in other languages are equally welcome to attend.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 19 Dec 2019 11:46:34 -0500 2019-10-03T14:30:00-04:00 2019-10-03T16:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar CoderSpaces at ISR
Collaborative workshop with Michigan State University (October 4, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67750 67750-16926589@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 4, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Political Scientists of Color (PSOC)

This half-day event will feature scholars from the University of Michigan and Michigan State University interested in Race and Ethnic Politics, including some of our very own job market candidates!

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Meeting Fri, 27 Sep 2019 16:56:13 -0400 2019-10-04T14:00:00-04:00 2019-10-04T16:30:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Political Scientists of Color (PSOC) Meeting
ISR CoderSpace with Paul Schulz (October 8, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67427 67427-16849189@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 8, 2019 10:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Paul Schulz is a senior consulting statistician and data scientist for ISR's Population Dynamics and Health Program. He specializes in statistical methods and computing, including hypothesis testing, data analysis and modelling, sampling (including weight creation and adjustment), and power calculation), as well as the use of secure computing enclaves (SRCVDI, Likert cluster, and Flux/Great Lakes). Paul writes code in Stata and SAS for general purpose desktop computing, and R and Python for selected applications, such as data visualization and web scraping/automation, among other uses.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 01 Nov 2019 10:06:55 -0400 2019-10-08T10:00:00-04:00 2019-10-08T11:30:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar CoderSpaces at ISR
Writing a Competitive Research Grant Proposal (October 8, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66545 66545-16744999@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 8, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: OVPR Office of Research Development

This workshop discusses writing grant proposals for various sponsors, including federal agencies (e.g., NIH, NSF) and foundation funders.
Topics include:
-Resources at U-M to help you find funding opportunities and develop proposals
-Self-assessment
-Analyzing sponsors
-How the review process works
-How to write various proposals sections
-General writing tips

Email Jill Jividen at jjgoff@umich.edu with questions.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 09 Sep 2019 08:55:34 -0400 2019-10-08T13:00:00-04:00 2019-10-08T16:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research OVPR Office of Research Development Workshop / Seminar
ISR CoderSpace with Erin Ware (October 9, 2019 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67429 67429-16849203@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 9, 2019 9:30am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Dr. Ware is a self-taught HPC user and excited to host a weekly CoderSpace again! She is an Assistant Professor of Research in the Population, Neurodevelopment, and Genetics group at ISR. Her training has been in genetic epidemiology, public health, and statistics using SAS (local), R (server), Linux (on FLUX, MBNI, and other personal servers), batch scripting (SGE, PBS, Slurm). Dr. Ware has taught SAS (data management and statistical modeling) and introductory statistics using R. She is experienced in teaching high performance computing to individuals with limited programming background. This fall semester, she is also teaching SIADS502: math methods for data science for the online master’s of data science degree program through the School of Information.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 01 Nov 2019 10:06:37 -0400 2019-10-09T09:30:00-04:00 2019-10-09T10:30:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar CoderSpaces at ISR
ISR CoderSpace with Jule Krüger (October 10, 2019 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67432 67432-16849218@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 10, 2019 2:30pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Dr. Krüger is the ISR program manager for big data and data science, based within the Center for Political Studies. She has more than 10 years of experience in processing, analyzing and interpreting data for social science research. An expert on data generating processes, triangulating multiple databases, and expanding methodology for researching difficult to observe populations, Dr. Krüger has proficient knowledge in computer programming, statistical analysis and scientific methodology. Using a combination of R, Python, Markdown, Make, bash, LaTeX and version control, she is experienced in automating research workflows for scalable, auditable and reproducible analysis. In this CoderSpace, the primary focus is on the Python programming language, but coders working in other languages are equally welcome to attend.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 19 Dec 2019 11:46:34 -0500 2019-10-10T14:30:00-04:00 2019-10-10T16:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar CoderSpaces at ISR
ISR CoderSpace with Paul Schulz (October 15, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67427 67427-16849190@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 15, 2019 10:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Paul Schulz is a senior consulting statistician and data scientist for ISR's Population Dynamics and Health Program. He specializes in statistical methods and computing, including hypothesis testing, data analysis and modelling, sampling (including weight creation and adjustment), and power calculation), as well as the use of secure computing enclaves (SRCVDI, Likert cluster, and Flux/Great Lakes). Paul writes code in Stata and SAS for general purpose desktop computing, and R and Python for selected applications, such as data visualization and web scraping/automation, among other uses.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 01 Nov 2019 10:06:55 -0400 2019-10-15T10:00:00-04:00 2019-10-15T11:30:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar CoderSpaces at ISR
ISR CoderSpace with Erin Ware (October 16, 2019 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67429 67429-16849204@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 16, 2019 9:30am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Dr. Ware is a self-taught HPC user and excited to host a weekly CoderSpace again! She is an Assistant Professor of Research in the Population, Neurodevelopment, and Genetics group at ISR. Her training has been in genetic epidemiology, public health, and statistics using SAS (local), R (server), Linux (on FLUX, MBNI, and other personal servers), batch scripting (SGE, PBS, Slurm). Dr. Ware has taught SAS (data management and statistical modeling) and introductory statistics using R. She is experienced in teaching high performance computing to individuals with limited programming background. This fall semester, she is also teaching SIADS502: math methods for data science for the online master’s of data science degree program through the School of Information.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 01 Nov 2019 10:06:37 -0400 2019-10-16T09:30:00-04:00 2019-10-16T10:30:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar CoderSpaces at ISR
Our Voices from the Past Carry Us into the Future: Anishnaabek/Odawa History, Culture, and Repatriation (October 17, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67454 67454-16857933@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 17, 2019 10:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Eric Hemenway will discuss Odawa geography, history, and his work with repatriation of human remains and sacred objects. He will highlight a few cases of repatriation that he personally worked on with the University of Michigan.

Eric Hemenway is an Anishnaabe/Odawa from Cross Village, Michigan. He is the Director of Repatriation, Archives and Records for the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indian, a federally recognized tribe in northern Michigan. Eric works to collect and preserve historical information for LTBB Odawa. That information is used to support the LTBB government and create educational materials on Odawa history, such as: exhibits, signage, publications, presentations, curriculums and media. Eric has worked on numerous repatriations of native, human remains under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA). He is a former member of the NAGPRA Review Committee and currently sits on boards for the Michigan Historical Commission, Michigan Historical Society, Michigan Humanities Council and Little Traverse Conservancy.

This event is free and open to the public.

Presented by the Institute for Social Research (ISR).

This event will not have a video feed or recording.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 11 Oct 2019 15:56:00 -0400 2019-10-17T10:00:00-04:00 2019-10-17T12:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Eric Hemenway Talk
ISR CoderSpace with Jule Krüger (October 17, 2019 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67432 67432-16849219@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 17, 2019 2:30pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Dr. Krüger is the ISR program manager for big data and data science, based within the Center for Political Studies. She has more than 10 years of experience in processing, analyzing and interpreting data for social science research. An expert on data generating processes, triangulating multiple databases, and expanding methodology for researching difficult to observe populations, Dr. Krüger has proficient knowledge in computer programming, statistical analysis and scientific methodology. Using a combination of R, Python, Markdown, Make, bash, LaTeX and version control, she is experienced in automating research workflows for scalable, auditable and reproducible analysis. In this CoderSpace, the primary focus is on the Python programming language, but coders working in other languages are equally welcome to attend.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 19 Dec 2019 11:46:34 -0500 2019-10-17T14:30:00-04:00 2019-10-17T16:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar CoderSpaces at ISR
Hanes Walton Jr. Lecture (October 17, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61388 61388-15097061@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 17, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Department of Political Science

Guest Speaker Dianne Pinderhughes (Notre Dame Presidential Faculty Fellow and Professor, Department of Africana Studies and the Department of Political Science, University of Notre Dame)

Reception follows the lecture in the ISR Atrium

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 19 Feb 2019 10:10:17 -0500 2019-10-17T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-17T17:30:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Department of Political Science Lecture / Discussion
Hanes Walton Jr. Lecture (October 17, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61398 61398-15097072@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 17, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Racial Dynamics in the American Context: A Second Century of Civil Rights and Protest?

This lecture will explore the factors shaping electoral and policy developments in the wake of late 20th century civil rights reform, and the growing political incorporation of African Americans into electoral politics.  Drawing from a set of collected papers compiled for publication as Black Politics After the Civil Rights Revolution, social and political scientists recognized the gradual increase in African American political participation, the increasing numbers of elected officials of color, and perhaps most remarkably, the election in 2008 and 2012 of Barack Obama to the Presidency.  The unexpected election of Donald Trump in 2016, posed a direct challenge to that framing of reaching the mountaintop and the evolution of successful racial reform. The lecture considers the possible alternative explanations for the Obama and Trump Presidencies in sequence, and whether these changes in early 21st century politics reflect those in previous eras. 

The Hanes Walton Jr. Lecture is sponsored by the Center for Political Studies, Institute for Social Research and occurs in the autumn of odd-numbered years, in honor of Hanes Walton, Jr.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 18 Sep 2019 11:02:00 -0400 2019-10-17T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-17T17:30:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Pinderhughes
Landscapes of Racial Dispossession and Control: Tracing the development of early career research on racial health inequities (October 21, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68117 68117-17011958@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 21, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Racial inequities in health have been documented and described in the public health literature for decades, yet these inequities have remained or even increased. In order to move forward, we must understand the role of cultural and structural racism upon which these inequities are built. Cultural racism shapes our society's structure and ultimately shapes the answers to the questions: "Whose life counts? Who is worthy of a healthy life?" In this presentation, Dr. Hicken will discuss the interwoven nature of both career trajectory, as a former PSC predoctoral trainee, and the development of her science on cultural and structural racism and health inequities. Specifically, she will outline her theory on racism and health and describe her collaborative data project designed to empirically examine this theory.

BIO:
Dr. Margaret Hicken is on faculty at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan where she serves as director of the UM RacismLab, an interdisciplinary research collected designed to facilitate the career progression of scholar who study cultural and structural racism. She is also director of the Landscapes of Racism Dispossession and Control data project, supported with funding from NIDDK, NIMHD, and NIA, to examine the ways in which historical and contemporary forms of racial control have resulted in contemporary health inequities.

PSC Brown Bag seminars highlight recent research in population studies and serve as a focal point for building our research community.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 10 Oct 2019 13:05:11 -0400 2019-10-21T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-21T13:30:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Margaret Hicken
ISR CoderSpace with Paul Schulz (October 22, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67427 67427-16849191@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 22, 2019 10:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Paul Schulz is a senior consulting statistician and data scientist for ISR's Population Dynamics and Health Program. He specializes in statistical methods and computing, including hypothesis testing, data analysis and modelling, sampling (including weight creation and adjustment), and power calculation), as well as the use of secure computing enclaves (SRCVDI, Likert cluster, and Flux/Great Lakes). Paul writes code in Stata and SAS for general purpose desktop computing, and R and Python for selected applications, such as data visualization and web scraping/automation, among other uses.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 01 Nov 2019 10:06:55 -0400 2019-10-22T10:00:00-04:00 2019-10-22T11:30:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar CoderSpaces at ISR
ISR CoderSpace with Erin Ware (October 23, 2019 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67429 67429-16849205@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 23, 2019 9:30am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Dr. Ware is a self-taught HPC user and excited to host a weekly CoderSpace again! She is an Assistant Professor of Research in the Population, Neurodevelopment, and Genetics group at ISR. Her training has been in genetic epidemiology, public health, and statistics using SAS (local), R (server), Linux (on FLUX, MBNI, and other personal servers), batch scripting (SGE, PBS, Slurm). Dr. Ware has taught SAS (data management and statistical modeling) and introductory statistics using R. She is experienced in teaching high performance computing to individuals with limited programming background. This fall semester, she is also teaching SIADS502: math methods for data science for the online master’s of data science degree program through the School of Information.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 01 Nov 2019 10:06:37 -0400 2019-10-23T09:30:00-04:00 2019-10-23T10:30:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar CoderSpaces at ISR
Michigan Program in Survey Methodology and the Joint Program in Survey Methodology Seminar Series (October 23, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68015 68015-16983970@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 23, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science

Institute for Social Research - Room 1070

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 04 Oct 2019 10:57:45 -0400 2019-10-23T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-23T13:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science Workshop / Seminar Trent Buskirk
ISR CoderSpace with Jule Krüger (October 24, 2019 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67432 67432-16849220@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 24, 2019 2:30pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Dr. Krüger is the ISR program manager for big data and data science, based within the Center for Political Studies. She has more than 10 years of experience in processing, analyzing and interpreting data for social science research. An expert on data generating processes, triangulating multiple databases, and expanding methodology for researching difficult to observe populations, Dr. Krüger has proficient knowledge in computer programming, statistical analysis and scientific methodology. Using a combination of R, Python, Markdown, Make, bash, LaTeX and version control, she is experienced in automating research workflows for scalable, auditable and reproducible analysis. In this CoderSpace, the primary focus is on the Python programming language, but coders working in other languages are equally welcome to attend.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 19 Dec 2019 11:46:34 -0500 2019-10-24T14:30:00-04:00 2019-10-24T16:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar CoderSpaces at ISR
Machine Learning in Survey Research (October 25, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68286 68286-17039621@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 25, 2019 9:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Please join instructor Adam Eck (assistant professor of computer science, Oberlin College), as he conducts a half-day workshop titled “Machine Learning in Survey Research”. This workshop is designed for population/survey researchers and analysts of all skill levels, and will present an introduction to machine learning concepts and their applications to survey research (such as sample frame creation, respondent modelling, and open-ended response coding).

Topics Include:
• Introduction to machine learning and its applications to survey research
• Decision trees and random forests
• Deep learning and other neural network-based techniques
• ML techniques to model respondent behaviors, assist with coding of open-ended responses, and more
• Demonstration using R and Python

Presented by the Population Dynamics and Health Program (PDHP).

BIO:
Adam Eck is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at Oberlin College. His primary research and teaching interests include: intelligent agents and multiagent systems, machine learning, data science, and computer-aided education.

More specifically, Adam enjoys learning about and developing solutions within decision making under uncertainty (how should agents gather information and behave to maximize rewards in complex, dynamic environments), reinforcement learning (how can agents learn how their worlds' operate in order to guide their decisions), and sequential supervised learning using recurrent neural networks (how can we predict future outcomes based on sequences of past observations).

REGISTRATION:
https://pdhp.isr.umich.edu/workshops/

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 11 Oct 2019 12:01:52 -0400 2019-10-25T09:00:00-04:00 2019-10-25T13:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Machine Learning in Survey Research poster
TBD PSC Brown Bag (October 28, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68120 68120-17011959@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 28, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Monday, 10/28/2019, 12:00pm
Location: ISR-Thompson 1430

Professor Logan will speak on recent work in economic history, economic demography and applied microeconomics. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at PSC 2009-11.

His research in economic history concerns the development of living standards measures that can be used to directly asses the question of how the human condition has changed over time. He is currently extending his historical research agenda to include topics such as childhood health, mortality, morbidity, and racial disparities in health.

PSC Brown Bag seminars highlight recent research in population studies and serve as a focal point for building our research community.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 07 Oct 2019 12:46:06 -0400 2019-10-28T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-28T13:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Trevon Logan
ISR CoderSpace with Paul Schulz (October 29, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67427 67427-16849192@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 29, 2019 10:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Paul Schulz is a senior consulting statistician and data scientist for ISR's Population Dynamics and Health Program. He specializes in statistical methods and computing, including hypothesis testing, data analysis and modelling, sampling (including weight creation and adjustment), and power calculation), as well as the use of secure computing enclaves (SRCVDI, Likert cluster, and Flux/Great Lakes). Paul writes code in Stata and SAS for general purpose desktop computing, and R and Python for selected applications, such as data visualization and web scraping/automation, among other uses.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 01 Nov 2019 10:06:55 -0400 2019-10-29T10:00:00-04:00 2019-10-29T11:30:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar CoderSpaces at ISR
ISR CoderSpace with Erin Ware (October 30, 2019 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67429 67429-16849206@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 9:30am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Dr. Ware is a self-taught HPC user and excited to host a weekly CoderSpace again! She is an Assistant Professor of Research in the Population, Neurodevelopment, and Genetics group at ISR. Her training has been in genetic epidemiology, public health, and statistics using SAS (local), R (server), Linux (on FLUX, MBNI, and other personal servers), batch scripting (SGE, PBS, Slurm). Dr. Ware has taught SAS (data management and statistical modeling) and introductory statistics using R. She is experienced in teaching high performance computing to individuals with limited programming background. This fall semester, she is also teaching SIADS502: math methods for data science for the online master’s of data science degree program through the School of Information.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 01 Nov 2019 10:06:37 -0400 2019-10-30T09:30:00-04:00 2019-10-30T10:30:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar CoderSpaces at ISR
Michigan Program in Survey Methodology and the Joint Program in Survey Methodology Seminar Series (October 30, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68016 68016-16983972@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science

Institute for Social Research
Room 1070

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 04 Oct 2019 11:08:22 -0400 2019-10-30T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-30T13:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science Workshop / Seminar Youjin Lee
ISR CoderSpace with Jule Krüger (October 31, 2019 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67432 67432-16849221@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 31, 2019 2:30pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Dr. Krüger is the ISR program manager for big data and data science, based within the Center for Political Studies. She has more than 10 years of experience in processing, analyzing and interpreting data for social science research. An expert on data generating processes, triangulating multiple databases, and expanding methodology for researching difficult to observe populations, Dr. Krüger has proficient knowledge in computer programming, statistical analysis and scientific methodology. Using a combination of R, Python, Markdown, Make, bash, LaTeX and version control, she is experienced in automating research workflows for scalable, auditable and reproducible analysis. In this CoderSpace, the primary focus is on the Python programming language, but coders working in other languages are equally welcome to attend.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 19 Dec 2019 11:46:34 -0500 2019-10-31T14:30:00-04:00 2019-10-31T16:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar CoderSpaces at ISR
ISR CoderSpace with Paul Schulz (November 5, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67427 67427-16849193@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 5, 2019 10:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Paul Schulz is a senior consulting statistician and data scientist for ISR's Population Dynamics and Health Program. He specializes in statistical methods and computing, including hypothesis testing, data analysis and modelling, sampling (including weight creation and adjustment), and power calculation), as well as the use of secure computing enclaves (SRCVDI, Likert cluster, and Flux/Great Lakes). Paul writes code in Stata and SAS for general purpose desktop computing, and R and Python for selected applications, such as data visualization and web scraping/automation, among other uses.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 01 Nov 2019 10:06:55 -0400 2019-11-05T10:00:00-05:00 2019-11-05T11:30:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar CoderSpaces at ISR
ISR CoderSpace with Erin Ware (November 6, 2019 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67429 67429-16849207@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 6, 2019 9:30am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Dr. Ware is a self-taught HPC user and excited to host a weekly CoderSpace again! She is an Assistant Professor of Research in the Population, Neurodevelopment, and Genetics group at ISR. Her training has been in genetic epidemiology, public health, and statistics using SAS (local), R (server), Linux (on FLUX, MBNI, and other personal servers), batch scripting (SGE, PBS, Slurm). Dr. Ware has taught SAS (data management and statistical modeling) and introductory statistics using R. She is experienced in teaching high performance computing to individuals with limited programming background. This fall semester, she is also teaching SIADS502: math methods for data science for the online master’s of data science degree program through the School of Information.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 01 Nov 2019 10:06:37 -0400 2019-11-06T09:30:00-05:00 2019-11-06T10:30:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar CoderSpaces at ISR
ISR CoderSpace with Jule Krüger (November 7, 2019 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67432 67432-16849222@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 7, 2019 2:30pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Dr. Krüger is the ISR program manager for big data and data science, based within the Center for Political Studies. She has more than 10 years of experience in processing, analyzing and interpreting data for social science research. An expert on data generating processes, triangulating multiple databases, and expanding methodology for researching difficult to observe populations, Dr. Krüger has proficient knowledge in computer programming, statistical analysis and scientific methodology. Using a combination of R, Python, Markdown, Make, bash, LaTeX and version control, she is experienced in automating research workflows for scalable, auditable and reproducible analysis. In this CoderSpace, the primary focus is on the Python programming language, but coders working in other languages are equally welcome to attend.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 19 Dec 2019 11:46:34 -0500 2019-11-07T14:30:00-05:00 2019-11-07T16:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar CoderSpaces at ISR
A Practical Guide To Survey Weighting (November 12, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68953 68953-17197057@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 12, 2019 9:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Please join us for the conclusion of the 2019 PDHP workshop series, as Richard Valliant (University of Michigan & University of Maryland Joint Program in Survey Methodology) presents "A Practical Guide To Survey Weighting". This workshop will present a comprehensive guide to the design and creation of survey weights, including sampling weights, nonresponse adjustment, and calibration, as well as approaches for weighting non-probability samples.

Additional topics include:

• Stochastic missingness & nonresponse adjustment.
• Calibration techniques including poststratification, raking, and GREG
• Demonstration and hands-on practice using R and Stata.


BIO:
Richard Valliant is a Research Professor at the University of Michigan and the Joint Program for Survey Methodology at the University of Maryland. He has over 35 years of experience in survey sampling, estimation theory, and statistical computing. He was formerly an Associate Director at Westat and a mathematical statistician with the Bureau of Labor Statistics. He has a range of applied experience in survey estimation and sample design on a variety of establishment and household surveys. He is also a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and has been an editor of Survey Methodology, the Journal of Official Statistics, and both sections of the Journal of the American Statistical Association (Theory & Methods and Applications and Case Studies)

Presented by the Population Dynamics and Health Program (PDHP) at the Michigan Populations Studies Center.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 29 Oct 2019 16:03:45 -0400 2019-11-12T09:00:00-05:00 2019-11-12T13:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Poster
ISR CoderSpace with Paul Schulz (November 12, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67427 67427-16849194@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 12, 2019 10:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Paul Schulz is a senior consulting statistician and data scientist for ISR's Population Dynamics and Health Program. He specializes in statistical methods and computing, including hypothesis testing, data analysis and modelling, sampling (including weight creation and adjustment), and power calculation), as well as the use of secure computing enclaves (SRCVDI, Likert cluster, and Flux/Great Lakes). Paul writes code in Stata and SAS for general purpose desktop computing, and R and Python for selected applications, such as data visualization and web scraping/automation, among other uses.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 01 Nov 2019 10:06:55 -0400 2019-11-12T10:00:00-05:00 2019-11-12T11:30:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar CoderSpaces at ISR
Issue Attention in Contemporary American Politics: 2016-2020 (November 13, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69106 69106-17244696@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 13, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Recent studies of political communication have focused on how and what people learn from information flows in society, whether from news, conversations, web sites, or social media. Researchers from the Center for Political Studies have studied the kinds of information that flow in election campaigns and in response to pressing political issues and what people are paying attention to. The presentations will highlight recent findings.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 04 Nov 2019 15:11:59 -0500 2019-11-13T12:00:00-05:00 2019-11-13T13:30:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Issue Attention in Contemporary American Politics: 2016-2020
Longer lives, Later Births: Implications for Generational Overlap in Denmark (November 18, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69183 69183-17261059@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 18, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

A Population Studies Center Brown Bag Seminar.

Fertility and mortality trends are the most fundamental determinants of human populations, and Western industrialized countries have witnessed notable changes in these patterns in recent decades: fertility rates have declined, and life expectancy has continued to increase. While demographers and other social scientists have explored the broad implications of population aging, less well understood are the individual-level consequences of conjoint changing fertility and mortality patterns. In particular, there is limited information about the extent to which life courses overlap today versus in prior decades and the implications of such. In this paper, we provide new evidence about generational overlap between grandparents and grandchildren using population register data from Denmark. We describe changing patterns of grandparents being alive-and life expectancy-at grandchildren's birth. Then, we evaluate differences in these patterns by socioeconomic status. These findings have implications for the transmission of inequality, as well as resource demands on governments.



BIO:
Marcia (Marcy) J. Carlson is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for Demography and Ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her primary research interests center on the links between family contexts and the wellbeing of children and parents. Her recent work is focused on changing patterns of parenthood and family complexity, including differences by socioeconomic status. She has published in a range of demography, family and general social science journals.


PSC Brown Bag seminars highlight recent research in population studies and serve as a focal point for building our research community.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 06 Nov 2019 14:56:21 -0500 2019-11-18T12:00:00-05:00 2019-11-18T13:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Marcy Carlson
TBD PSC Brown Bag (November 18, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68121 68121-17011960@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 18, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Monday, 11/18/2019, 12:00 pm
Location: ISR-Thompson 1430

Professor Carlson will discuss her recent research.

Dr. Carlson's primary research interests center on the associations between family contexts and the wellbeing of parents and children. Her recent work is focused on growing family diversity and complexity, particularly with respect to fertility patterns and fatherhood, as well as how family change is linked with inequality in both the U.S. and cross-national contexts.

PSC Brown Bag seminars highlight recent research in population studies and serve as a focal point for building our research community.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 07 Oct 2019 12:44:41 -0400 2019-11-18T12:00:00-05:00 2019-11-18T13:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Marcy Carlson
ISR CoderSpace with Paul Schulz (November 19, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67427 67427-16849195@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 19, 2019 10:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Paul Schulz is a senior consulting statistician and data scientist for ISR's Population Dynamics and Health Program. He specializes in statistical methods and computing, including hypothesis testing, data analysis and modelling, sampling (including weight creation and adjustment), and power calculation), as well as the use of secure computing enclaves (SRCVDI, Likert cluster, and Flux/Great Lakes). Paul writes code in Stata and SAS for general purpose desktop computing, and R and Python for selected applications, such as data visualization and web scraping/automation, among other uses.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 01 Nov 2019 10:06:55 -0400 2019-11-19T10:00:00-05:00 2019-11-19T11:30:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar CoderSpaces at ISR
2019 Political Scientists of Color Distinguished Speaker Event (November 19, 2019 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68660 68660-17130527@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 19, 2019 12:30pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Political Scientists of Color (PSOC)

The purpose of Political Scientists of Color (PSOC) is to provide a network of political scientists interested in creating and maintaining a supportive academic and professional environment in the Department of Political Science regardless of race or ethnic background. PSOC seeks to foster a sense of community among political science graduate students of color at the University of Michigan and to advocate their concerns and interests on campus and in the community at-large. As such, this organization sponsors several department-wide professional development meetings and events that will help enable students to pursue a successful career in the field of political science. PSOC also advocates for the recruitment and retention of graduate students and faculty of color in the department. Additionally, our organization is active in hosting distinguised guest speakers, with the goal of increasing the awareness of the university community to the many contributions of scholars of color to the discipline.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 21 Oct 2019 13:56:50 -0400 2019-11-19T12:30:00-05:00 2019-11-19T14:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Political Scientists of Color (PSOC) Lecture / Discussion
ISR CoderSpace with Erin Ware (November 20, 2019 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67429 67429-16849209@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 20, 2019 9:30am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Dr. Ware is a self-taught HPC user and excited to host a weekly CoderSpace again! She is an Assistant Professor of Research in the Population, Neurodevelopment, and Genetics group at ISR. Her training has been in genetic epidemiology, public health, and statistics using SAS (local), R (server), Linux (on FLUX, MBNI, and other personal servers), batch scripting (SGE, PBS, Slurm). Dr. Ware has taught SAS (data management and statistical modeling) and introductory statistics using R. She is experienced in teaching high performance computing to individuals with limited programming background. This fall semester, she is also teaching SIADS502: math methods for data science for the online master’s of data science degree program through the School of Information.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 01 Nov 2019 10:06:37 -0400 2019-11-20T09:30:00-05:00 2019-11-20T10:30:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar CoderSpaces at ISR
ISR CoderSpace with Jule Krüger (November 21, 2019 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67432 67432-16849224@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 21, 2019 2:30pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Dr. Krüger is the ISR program manager for big data and data science, based within the Center for Political Studies. She has more than 10 years of experience in processing, analyzing and interpreting data for social science research. An expert on data generating processes, triangulating multiple databases, and expanding methodology for researching difficult to observe populations, Dr. Krüger has proficient knowledge in computer programming, statistical analysis and scientific methodology. Using a combination of R, Python, Markdown, Make, bash, LaTeX and version control, she is experienced in automating research workflows for scalable, auditable and reproducible analysis. In this CoderSpace, the primary focus is on the Python programming language, but coders working in other languages are equally welcome to attend.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 19 Dec 2019 11:46:34 -0500 2019-11-21T14:30:00-05:00 2019-11-21T16:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar CoderSpaces at ISR
ISR CoderSpace with Paul Schulz (November 26, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67427 67427-16849196@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 26, 2019 10:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Paul Schulz is a senior consulting statistician and data scientist for ISR's Population Dynamics and Health Program. He specializes in statistical methods and computing, including hypothesis testing, data analysis and modelling, sampling (including weight creation and adjustment), and power calculation), as well as the use of secure computing enclaves (SRCVDI, Likert cluster, and Flux/Great Lakes). Paul writes code in Stata and SAS for general purpose desktop computing, and R and Python for selected applications, such as data visualization and web scraping/automation, among other uses.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 01 Nov 2019 10:06:55 -0400 2019-11-26T10:00:00-05:00 2019-11-26T11:30:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar CoderSpaces at ISR
ISR CoderSpace with Erin Ware (November 27, 2019 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67429 67429-16849210@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 27, 2019 9:30am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Dr. Ware is a self-taught HPC user and excited to host a weekly CoderSpace again! She is an Assistant Professor of Research in the Population, Neurodevelopment, and Genetics group at ISR. Her training has been in genetic epidemiology, public health, and statistics using SAS (local), R (server), Linux (on FLUX, MBNI, and other personal servers), batch scripting (SGE, PBS, Slurm). Dr. Ware has taught SAS (data management and statistical modeling) and introductory statistics using R. She is experienced in teaching high performance computing to individuals with limited programming background. This fall semester, she is also teaching SIADS502: math methods for data science for the online master’s of data science degree program through the School of Information.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 01 Nov 2019 10:06:37 -0400 2019-11-27T09:30:00-05:00 2019-11-27T10:30:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar CoderSpaces at ISR
School district segregation and the racial inertia of parental choices since 1970 (December 2, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69186 69186-17261061@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 2, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

A Population Studies Center Brown Bag Seminar.

Since the 1970s, residential segregation between school districts has accounted for two thirds of all school segregation in the U.S., but it is unclear how much families prioritize racial characteristics of school districts when they choose where to live. I analyze the relative importance neighborhood and school district characteristics on residential selection for households from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics between 1970 and 2015 using a discrete choice analysis. A post-estimation counterfactual simulation reveals the partial effects of micro sorting behaviors on macro segregation. I find that racial avoidance has played an increasingly prominent, but always secondary, role in segregation between districts since 1970, with economic and housing characteristics adding little explanatory power. More than half of district segregation is explained by tendencies to stay or move to nearby neighborhoods without crossing district lines. District recirculation reinforces the inertia of historic racial exclusion at a large, socially meaningful spatial scale.

BIO:
Peter Rich is a sociologist at Cornell University studying the intersection of structural inequality, individual choice, and public policy in the United States. His work primarily examines how micro sorting processes affect policies intending to expand opportunity to under-served populations. Peter's recent projects analyze spatial inequality between school districts, the effect of charter school expansion on racial segregation, trends in parental residential sorting during and after the era of school desegregation, and the contextual origins of racial gaps in educational outcomes.

PSC Brown Bag seminars highlight recent research in population studies and serve as a focal point for building our research community.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 06 Nov 2019 15:19:26 -0500 2019-12-02T12:00:00-05:00 2019-12-02T13:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Peter Rich
ISR CoderSpace with Paul Schulz (December 3, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67427 67427-16849197@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 3, 2019 10:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Paul Schulz is a senior consulting statistician and data scientist for ISR's Population Dynamics and Health Program. He specializes in statistical methods and computing, including hypothesis testing, data analysis and modelling, sampling (including weight creation and adjustment), and power calculation), as well as the use of secure computing enclaves (SRCVDI, Likert cluster, and Flux/Great Lakes). Paul writes code in Stata and SAS for general purpose desktop computing, and R and Python for selected applications, such as data visualization and web scraping/automation, among other uses.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 01 Nov 2019 10:06:55 -0400 2019-12-03T10:00:00-05:00 2019-12-03T11:30:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar CoderSpaces at ISR
ISR CoderSpace with Erin Ware (December 4, 2019 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67429 67429-16849211@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 4, 2019 9:30am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Dr. Ware is a self-taught HPC user and excited to host a weekly CoderSpace again! She is an Assistant Professor of Research in the Population, Neurodevelopment, and Genetics group at ISR. Her training has been in genetic epidemiology, public health, and statistics using SAS (local), R (server), Linux (on FLUX, MBNI, and other personal servers), batch scripting (SGE, PBS, Slurm). Dr. Ware has taught SAS (data management and statistical modeling) and introductory statistics using R. She is experienced in teaching high performance computing to individuals with limited programming background. This fall semester, she is also teaching SIADS502: math methods for data science for the online master’s of data science degree program through the School of Information.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 01 Nov 2019 10:06:37 -0400 2019-12-04T09:30:00-05:00 2019-12-04T10:30:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar CoderSpaces at ISR
ISR CoderSpace with Jule Krüger (December 5, 2019 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67432 67432-16849226@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 5, 2019 2:30pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Dr. Krüger is the ISR program manager for big data and data science, based within the Center for Political Studies. She has more than 10 years of experience in processing, analyzing and interpreting data for social science research. An expert on data generating processes, triangulating multiple databases, and expanding methodology for researching difficult to observe populations, Dr. Krüger has proficient knowledge in computer programming, statistical analysis and scientific methodology. Using a combination of R, Python, Markdown, Make, bash, LaTeX and version control, she is experienced in automating research workflows for scalable, auditable and reproducible analysis. In this CoderSpace, the primary focus is on the Python programming language, but coders working in other languages are equally welcome to attend.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 19 Dec 2019 11:46:34 -0500 2019-12-05T14:30:00-05:00 2019-12-05T16:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar CoderSpaces at ISR
ISR CoderSpace with Paul Schulz (December 10, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67427 67427-16849198@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 10, 2019 10:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Paul Schulz is a senior consulting statistician and data scientist for ISR's Population Dynamics and Health Program. He specializes in statistical methods and computing, including hypothesis testing, data analysis and modelling, sampling (including weight creation and adjustment), and power calculation), as well as the use of secure computing enclaves (SRCVDI, Likert cluster, and Flux/Great Lakes). Paul writes code in Stata and SAS for general purpose desktop computing, and R and Python for selected applications, such as data visualization and web scraping/automation, among other uses.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 01 Nov 2019 10:06:55 -0400 2019-12-10T10:00:00-05:00 2019-12-10T11:30:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar CoderSpaces at ISR
ISR CoderSpace with Erin Ware (December 18, 2019 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67429 67429-16849213@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 18, 2019 9:30am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Dr. Ware is a self-taught HPC user and excited to host a weekly CoderSpace again! She is an Assistant Professor of Research in the Population, Neurodevelopment, and Genetics group at ISR. Her training has been in genetic epidemiology, public health, and statistics using SAS (local), R (server), Linux (on FLUX, MBNI, and other personal servers), batch scripting (SGE, PBS, Slurm). Dr. Ware has taught SAS (data management and statistical modeling) and introductory statistics using R. She is experienced in teaching high performance computing to individuals with limited programming background. This fall semester, she is also teaching SIADS502: math methods for data science for the online master’s of data science degree program through the School of Information.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 01 Nov 2019 10:06:37 -0400 2019-12-18T09:30:00-05:00 2019-12-18T10:30:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar CoderSpaces at ISR
University Library Resources Open House (January 16, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70416 70416-17594469@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 16, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Explore information services, research tools, and resources offered by the University of Michigan library.

There will be 2 presentations and a variety of other resources available.

PRESENTATIONS:

12:00 - 12:45: Measuring Research Impact
Presenters: Becky Welzenbach, Research Impact Librarian
Judy Smith, Informationist
Tyler Nix, Informationist

1:00 - 1:45: Data Visualization
Presenter: Justin Joque, Visualization Librarian

Resource booths include:

Deep Blue/RDM: Rachel Woodbrook, Data Curation Librarian and Martha Stuit, Repository Assistant
Mapping and GIS: Caroline Kayko, Map & Geospatial Data Librarian
Systematic Reviews: Whitney Townsend, Informationist
NIH Compliance and Open Access: Merle Rosenzweig, Informationist
ISR Information Resources: Yan Fun, Information Resources Manager


Lunch is provided during the presentations for attendees and library participants who RSVP to the presentations.

RSVP is required for this event: https://forms.gle/iC41v4ygK9UNmcTaA

If you require accommodations to attend this event or have any questions please contact Anna Massey at abeattie@umich.edu.

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Other Thu, 09 Jan 2020 16:00:53 -0500 2020-01-16T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-16T15:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Other flyer
MLK's Legacy for Social and Behavioral Science Research: Perspectives from New Scholars (January 20, 2020 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70636 70636-17611219@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 20, 2020 2:30pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

The Institute for Social Research, the Research Center for Group Dynamics, and the Program for Research on Black Americans present:

MLK's Legacy for Social and Behavioral Science Research:
Perspectives from New Scholars

Jan 20 || 2:30 pm
ISR 1430 Thompson
Reception immediately following panel discussion

SPEAKERS INCLUDE:

Lloyd M. Talley, Ph.D.
University of Michigan School of Social Work

Taylor W. Hargrove, Ph.D.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

DeAnnah R. Byrd, Ph.D.
Wayne State University

MODERATED BY:
David C. Wilson, Ph.D., University of Delaware

If you require accommodations to attend this event or have any questions please contact Anna Massey at abeattie@umich.edu.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 13 Jan 2020 13:03:54 -0500 2020-01-20T14:30:00-05:00 2020-01-20T16:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion event flyer
CoderSpace with Paul Schulz and Chen Chen (January 21, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/71672 71672-17853481@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 21, 2020 10:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Do you write code for research or class? Do you sometimes get stuck? Are you just starting to learn how to code? Or, do you seek a social environment shared with fellow programmers? Writing code, or “programming,” can be a fun but also challenging and lonely enterprise. Hosted by members of the U-M community, our CoderSpaces are there for you to meet other coders, so you can connect and learn from your coder peers. Participation is open to anyone interested in writing code for computational social science, data science, statistics, social science method, engineering, etc., be they students, staff, or faculty. In our CoderSpaces, we seek to build a casual, productive and inclusive environment where everyone is welcome regardless of their skill or level of expertise, to share experiences and knowledge, assist each other in data-intensive projects, and enjoy peer-programming opportunities. We hope that participants will actively help each other as able. To participate, bring a laptop and some coding work, or just come and hang out, socialize, and assist others. Our hosts look forward to hacking with you!

Paul Schulz is a senior consulting statistician and data scientist for ISR's Population Dynamics and Health Program. He specializes in statistical methods and computing, including hypothesis testing, data analysis and modeling, sampling (including weight creation and adjustment, and power calculation), as well as the use of secure computing enclaves (SRCVDI, Likert cluster, and Flux/Great Lakes). Paul writes code in Stata and SAS for general-purpose desktop computing, and R and Python for selected applications, such as data visualization and web scraping/automation, among other uses.

Chen Chen is a data scientist, programmer, and consultant for ISR's Population Dynamics and Health Program. He specializes in survey methods (with a particular focus on survey statistics, sampling, and weighting), data management, and statistical computing, including large scale simulations of complex samples and statistical modeling using complex and longitudinal survey datasets. Chen is a high-level programmer who specializes in R, Python, and Stata, with a focus on computing in a Linux environment.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 21 Jan 2020 14:45:01 -0500 2020-01-21T10:00:00-05:00 2020-01-21T11:30:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Winter 2020 CoderSpaces
CoderSpace with Armand Burks and Erin Ware (January 22, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/71673 71673-17853495@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 22, 2020 10:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Do you write code for research or class? Do you sometimes get stuck? Are you just starting to learn how to code? Or, do you seek a social environment shared with fellow programmers? Writing code, or “programming,” can be a fun but also challenging and lonely enterprise. Hosted by members of the U-M community, our CoderSpaces are there for you to meet other coders, so you can connect and learn from your coder peers. Participation is open to anyone interested in writing code for computational social science, data science, statistics, social science method, engineering, etc., be they students, staff, or faculty. In our CoderSpaces, we seek to build a casual, productive and inclusive environment where everyone is welcome regardless of their skill or level of expertise, to share experiences and knowledge, assist each other in data-intensive projects, and enjoy peer-programming opportunities. We hope that participants will actively help each other as able. To participate, bring a laptop and some coding work, or just come and hang out, socialize, and assist others. Our hosts look forward to hacking with you!

Dr. Burks is a Research Data Scientist in Advanced Research Computing Technology Services (ARC-TS) and the School of Information. He specializes in evolutionary computation (genetic programming), and has professional experience in software development and writing cloud analytics. Dr. Burks is available to assist in general programming using C++, Java, and Python, bash commands/scripting, automation of tasks such as data parsing, transformation/conversion, workflow automation, etc., HPC job creation/submission, version control in git, and other related topics.

Dr. Ware is an Assistant Professor of Research in the Population, Neurodevelopment, and Genetics group at ISR, a self-taught HPC user, and an occasional instructor in the School of Information. Her training has been in genetic epidemiology, public health, and statistics using SAS (local), R (server), Linux (on GreatLakes, MBNI, and other personal servers), and batch scripting (SGE, PBS, Slurm). Dr. Ware has taught SAS (data management and statistical modeling), introductory statistics using R, and math methods for data scientists. She is experienced in teaching high performance computing to individuals with limited programming background.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 21 Jan 2020 14:45:45 -0500 2020-01-22T10:00:00-05:00 2020-01-22T11:30:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Winter 2020 CoderSpaces
Accessible Presentations - A Brown Bag Talk (January 22, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70088 70088-17510056@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 22, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Making in-person communication accessible—at meetings and during presentations— shows that you care who can access your ideas.

Stephanie Rosen, Accessibility Specialist at U-M Library, will provide an introduction to the how and why of making your presentations accessible to all of your colleagues and audiences.

The session will include a basic introduction to disability, principles for accessible presentations, and practical tips and resources you can use right away.

DACCD Accessibility Subcommittee White Paper on live captioning presentations: bit.ly/daccd-live-caption

If you require an accommodation to participate in this event, please contact Anna Massey at abeattie@umich.edu at least one week in advance of this event.

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Presentation Fri, 06 Dec 2019 19:02:24 -0500 2020-01-22T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-22T13:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation Announcement for Accessible Presentations - A Brown Bag Lunchtime Talk from the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan
Technology Studio Open House (January 22, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71501 71501-17836312@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 22, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

The Technology Studio at the Institute for Social Research (ISR) is a welcoming space for collaborative work supported by the latest technology. The studio is available for students, faculty, and staff affiliated with the ISR.

Join us on January 22 at 3 PM to tour the studio.

https://spark.adobe.com/page/8rjfl47DT0zRH/

If you require accommodations to attend this event or have any questions please contact Anna Massey at abeattie@umich.edu.

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Reception / Open House Wed, 15 Jan 2020 13:14:41 -0500 2020-01-22T15:00:00-05:00 2020-01-22T17:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Reception / Open House Tech Studio Open House at ISR
CoderSpace with Yuki Shiraito and Jule Krüger (January 23, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71674 71674-17853509@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 23, 2020 4:30pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Do you write code for research or class? Do you sometimes get stuck? Are you just starting to learn how to code? Or, do you seek a social environment shared with fellow programmers? Writing code, or “programming,” can be a fun but also challenging and lonely enterprise. Hosted by members of the U-M community, our CoderSpaces are there for you to meet other coders, so you can connect and learn from your coder peers. Participation is open to anyone interested in writing code for computational social science, data science, statistics, social science method, engineering, etc., be they students, staff, or faculty. In our CoderSpaces, we seek to build a casual, productive and inclusive environment where everyone is welcome regardless of their skill or level of expertise, to share experiences and knowledge, assist each other in data-intensive projects, and enjoy peer-programming opportunities. We hope that participants will actively help each other as able. To participate, bring a laptop and some coding work, or just come and hang out, socialize, and assist others. Our hosts look forward to hacking with you!

Dr. Shiraito is a Research Faculty with the Center for Political Studies and an Assistant Professor in the Political Science Department. He is available to assist with a variety of topics that include Bayesian statistics, parallel computing in R, OpenMP and Rcpp, web scraping using Python, working with the University’s high performance computing clusters (Great Lakes and Cavium), and other computational methods.

Dr. Krüger is the ISR Program Manager for Big Data and Data Science, based within the Center for Political Studies at the Institute for Social Research. She has more than 10 years of experience in processing, analyzing and interpreting data for social science research, and automating workflows for scalable, auditable and reproducible analysis. Dr. Krüger can assist with R, Python, Markdown, Make, bash, LaTeX programming, and version control in git.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 21 Jan 2020 14:43:44 -0500 2020-01-23T16:30:00-05:00 2020-01-23T18:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Winter 2020 CoderSpaces
Contraceptive Access Research and Evaluation (January 27, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71198 71198-17785629@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 27, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

The Michigan Population Studies Center (PSC) presents a panel discussion on contraceptive access research and evaluation, with Martha J. Bailey (UM), Katie Genadek (CU-Boulder, US Census Bureau), Jason Lindo (Texas A&M, NBER, IZA), Vanessa Dalton (UM).

PSC Brown Bag seminars highlight recent research in population studies and serve as a focal point for building our research community.

BIOS:

Dr. Bailey's research focuses on issues in labor economics, demography and health in the United States, within the longer-run perspective of economic history. Her research has examined the implications of the diffusion of modern contraception for women's childbearing, career decisions, and the convergence in the gender gap. Her most recent projects focus on evaluating the shorter and longer-term effects of Great Society programs, including a recently published book (co-edited with Sheldon Danziger) on the legacies of the War on Poverty. Bailey is an NBER Faculty Research Fellow and in 2007 was an RWJ Health Policy Research Scholar.

Dr. Genadek's research is focused on the relationship between work and family and policy impacts on women's labor supply and household labor. She has ongoing work in areas of couples' time spent together, workplace flexibility, and women's work in a historical context. She is currently analyzing the effects of the Colorado Family Planning Initiative with a team of scholars in Colorado.

Dr. Lindo's recent and ongoing work is especially focused on documenting the effects of changes in access to reproductive healthcare. This work includes an evaluation of the Colorado Family Planning Initiative and an evaluation of the abortion clinic closures precipitated by Texas HB-2, which were at the center of the US Supreme Court case, Whole Women's Health v. Hellerstedt.

Dr. Dalton's research interests include family planning and contraception, access to care, healthcare utilization, and human rights. She is Associate Chair of Research in U-M's Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, the director of the Program on Women's Health Care Effectiveness Research (PWHER), and Co-Director of the Ryan Residency Training Program.



Michigan's Population Studies Center, established in 1961, has a rich history as an interdisciplinary community of scholars in population research and training. PSC is part of the Institute for Social Research (ISR).

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Presentation Thu, 23 Jan 2020 11:12:14 -0500 2020-01-27T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-27T13:31:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Presentation contraceptive pills
CoderSpace with Paul Schulz and Chen Chen (January 28, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/71672 71672-17853482@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 28, 2020 10:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Do you write code for research or class? Do you sometimes get stuck? Are you just starting to learn how to code? Or, do you seek a social environment shared with fellow programmers? Writing code, or “programming,” can be a fun but also challenging and lonely enterprise. Hosted by members of the U-M community, our CoderSpaces are there for you to meet other coders, so you can connect and learn from your coder peers. Participation is open to anyone interested in writing code for computational social science, data science, statistics, social science method, engineering, etc., be they students, staff, or faculty. In our CoderSpaces, we seek to build a casual, productive and inclusive environment where everyone is welcome regardless of their skill or level of expertise, to share experiences and knowledge, assist each other in data-intensive projects, and enjoy peer-programming opportunities. We hope that participants will actively help each other as able. To participate, bring a laptop and some coding work, or just come and hang out, socialize, and assist others. Our hosts look forward to hacking with you!

Paul Schulz is a senior consulting statistician and data scientist for ISR's Population Dynamics and Health Program. He specializes in statistical methods and computing, including hypothesis testing, data analysis and modeling, sampling (including weight creation and adjustment, and power calculation), as well as the use of secure computing enclaves (SRCVDI, Likert cluster, and Flux/Great Lakes). Paul writes code in Stata and SAS for general-purpose desktop computing, and R and Python for selected applications, such as data visualization and web scraping/automation, among other uses.

Chen Chen is a data scientist, programmer, and consultant for ISR's Population Dynamics and Health Program. He specializes in survey methods (with a particular focus on survey statistics, sampling, and weighting), data management, and statistical computing, including large scale simulations of complex samples and statistical modeling using complex and longitudinal survey datasets. Chen is a high-level programmer who specializes in R, Python, and Stata, with a focus on computing in a Linux environment.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 21 Jan 2020 14:45:01 -0500 2020-01-28T10:00:00-05:00 2020-01-28T11:30:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Winter 2020 CoderSpaces
CoderSpace with Armand Burks and Erin Ware (January 29, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/71673 71673-17853496@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 29, 2020 10:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Do you write code for research or class? Do you sometimes get stuck? Are you just starting to learn how to code? Or, do you seek a social environment shared with fellow programmers? Writing code, or “programming,” can be a fun but also challenging and lonely enterprise. Hosted by members of the U-M community, our CoderSpaces are there for you to meet other coders, so you can connect and learn from your coder peers. Participation is open to anyone interested in writing code for computational social science, data science, statistics, social science method, engineering, etc., be they students, staff, or faculty. In our CoderSpaces, we seek to build a casual, productive and inclusive environment where everyone is welcome regardless of their skill or level of expertise, to share experiences and knowledge, assist each other in data-intensive projects, and enjoy peer-programming opportunities. We hope that participants will actively help each other as able. To participate, bring a laptop and some coding work, or just come and hang out, socialize, and assist others. Our hosts look forward to hacking with you!

Dr. Burks is a Research Data Scientist in Advanced Research Computing Technology Services (ARC-TS) and the School of Information. He specializes in evolutionary computation (genetic programming), and has professional experience in software development and writing cloud analytics. Dr. Burks is available to assist in general programming using C++, Java, and Python, bash commands/scripting, automation of tasks such as data parsing, transformation/conversion, workflow automation, etc., HPC job creation/submission, version control in git, and other related topics.

Dr. Ware is an Assistant Professor of Research in the Population, Neurodevelopment, and Genetics group at ISR, a self-taught HPC user, and an occasional instructor in the School of Information. Her training has been in genetic epidemiology, public health, and statistics using SAS (local), R (server), Linux (on GreatLakes, MBNI, and other personal servers), and batch scripting (SGE, PBS, Slurm). Dr. Ware has taught SAS (data management and statistical modeling), introductory statistics using R, and math methods for data scientists. She is experienced in teaching high performance computing to individuals with limited programming background.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 21 Jan 2020 14:45:45 -0500 2020-01-29T10:00:00-05:00 2020-01-29T11:30:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Winter 2020 CoderSpaces
CoderSpace with Yuki Shiraito and Jule Krüger (January 30, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71674 71674-17853510@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 30, 2020 4:30pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Do you write code for research or class? Do you sometimes get stuck? Are you just starting to learn how to code? Or, do you seek a social environment shared with fellow programmers? Writing code, or “programming,” can be a fun but also challenging and lonely enterprise. Hosted by members of the U-M community, our CoderSpaces are there for you to meet other coders, so you can connect and learn from your coder peers. Participation is open to anyone interested in writing code for computational social science, data science, statistics, social science method, engineering, etc., be they students, staff, or faculty. In our CoderSpaces, we seek to build a casual, productive and inclusive environment where everyone is welcome regardless of their skill or level of expertise, to share experiences and knowledge, assist each other in data-intensive projects, and enjoy peer-programming opportunities. We hope that participants will actively help each other as able. To participate, bring a laptop and some coding work, or just come and hang out, socialize, and assist others. Our hosts look forward to hacking with you!

Dr. Shiraito is a Research Faculty with the Center for Political Studies and an Assistant Professor in the Political Science Department. He is available to assist with a variety of topics that include Bayesian statistics, parallel computing in R, OpenMP and Rcpp, web scraping using Python, working with the University’s high performance computing clusters (Great Lakes and Cavium), and other computational methods.

Dr. Krüger is the ISR Program Manager for Big Data and Data Science, based within the Center for Political Studies at the Institute for Social Research. She has more than 10 years of experience in processing, analyzing and interpreting data for social science research, and automating workflows for scalable, auditable and reproducible analysis. Dr. Krüger can assist with R, Python, Markdown, Make, bash, LaTeX programming, and version control in git.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 21 Jan 2020 14:43:44 -0500 2020-01-30T16:30:00-05:00 2020-01-30T18:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Winter 2020 CoderSpaces
Status Exchange in Same-Sex and Different-Sex Newlywed Couples (February 3, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71804 71804-17885894@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 3, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Partners in same-sex coresidential unions are less likely than partners in different-sex coresidential unions to resemble each other on demographic characteristics such as age, race/ethnicity, and educational attainment. Using recent data from the American Community Survey, this study uses conditional logit models to examine assortative matching patterns among same-sex and different-sex newlywed couples defining marriage markets in a variety of ways. Regardless of how markets are defined, same-sex male couples are less likely than same-sex female couples and different-sex couples to match on race and age. These patterns are somewhat consistent with the notion that individuals seeking a same-sex partner must cast a broad net due to a small number of available partners. This study extends prior research on this topic by directly examining the extent to which partners in the three union types trade valued traits (i.e., compensating differentials). The results suggest that gay men use status exchange as a strategy to find a marriage partner who is similar in terms of overall trade values.
BIO:

Kara Joyner is a Professor of Sociology at Bowling Green State University and served as Associate Director of the Center for Family and Demographic Research for six years. Her research addresses how a variety of factors influence the formation and dynamics of relationships, including friendships, romantic/sexual relationships, cohabiting relationships, and marriages. It also considers how different types of relationships influence well-being and identifies factors that moderate this influence. She has conducted much of this research using data from the Add Health. As a Principal Investigator on an NICHD-funded subproject for a P01 (directed by H. Elizabeth Peters), she recently compared estimates of fertility across major U.S. surveys and developed population-based estimates of male fertility.

PSC Brown Bag seminars highlight recent research in population studies and serve as a focal point for building our research community.

Michigan's Population Studies Center, established in 1961, has a rich history as an interdisciplinary community of scholars in population research and training. PSC is part of the Institute for Social Research (ISR).

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Presentation Thu, 23 Jan 2020 11:11:04 -0500 2020-02-03T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-03T13:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Presentation Kara Joyner
CoderSpace with Paul Schulz and Chen Chen (February 4, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/71672 71672-17853483@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 4, 2020 10:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Do you write code for research or class? Do you sometimes get stuck? Are you just starting to learn how to code? Or, do you seek a social environment shared with fellow programmers? Writing code, or “programming,” can be a fun but also challenging and lonely enterprise. Hosted by members of the U-M community, our CoderSpaces are there for you to meet other coders, so you can connect and learn from your coder peers. Participation is open to anyone interested in writing code for computational social science, data science, statistics, social science method, engineering, etc., be they students, staff, or faculty. In our CoderSpaces, we seek to build a casual, productive and inclusive environment where everyone is welcome regardless of their skill or level of expertise, to share experiences and knowledge, assist each other in data-intensive projects, and enjoy peer-programming opportunities. We hope that participants will actively help each other as able. To participate, bring a laptop and some coding work, or just come and hang out, socialize, and assist others. Our hosts look forward to hacking with you!

Paul Schulz is a senior consulting statistician and data scientist for ISR's Population Dynamics and Health Program. He specializes in statistical methods and computing, including hypothesis testing, data analysis and modeling, sampling (including weight creation and adjustment, and power calculation), as well as the use of secure computing enclaves (SRCVDI, Likert cluster, and Flux/Great Lakes). Paul writes code in Stata and SAS for general-purpose desktop computing, and R and Python for selected applications, such as data visualization and web scraping/automation, among other uses.

Chen Chen is a data scientist, programmer, and consultant for ISR's Population Dynamics and Health Program. He specializes in survey methods (with a particular focus on survey statistics, sampling, and weighting), data management, and statistical computing, including large scale simulations of complex samples and statistical modeling using complex and longitudinal survey datasets. Chen is a high-level programmer who specializes in R, Python, and Stata, with a focus on computing in a Linux environment.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 21 Jan 2020 14:45:01 -0500 2020-02-04T10:00:00-05:00 2020-02-04T11:30:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Winter 2020 CoderSpaces
CoderSpace with Armand Burks and Erin Ware (February 5, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/71673 71673-17853497@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 5, 2020 10:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Do you write code for research or class? Do you sometimes get stuck? Are you just starting to learn how to code? Or, do you seek a social environment shared with fellow programmers? Writing code, or “programming,” can be a fun but also challenging and lonely enterprise. Hosted by members of the U-M community, our CoderSpaces are there for you to meet other coders, so you can connect and learn from your coder peers. Participation is open to anyone interested in writing code for computational social science, data science, statistics, social science method, engineering, etc., be they students, staff, or faculty. In our CoderSpaces, we seek to build a casual, productive and inclusive environment where everyone is welcome regardless of their skill or level of expertise, to share experiences and knowledge, assist each other in data-intensive projects, and enjoy peer-programming opportunities. We hope that participants will actively help each other as able. To participate, bring a laptop and some coding work, or just come and hang out, socialize, and assist others. Our hosts look forward to hacking with you!

Dr. Burks is a Research Data Scientist in Advanced Research Computing Technology Services (ARC-TS) and the School of Information. He specializes in evolutionary computation (genetic programming), and has professional experience in software development and writing cloud analytics. Dr. Burks is available to assist in general programming using C++, Java, and Python, bash commands/scripting, automation of tasks such as data parsing, transformation/conversion, workflow automation, etc., HPC job creation/submission, version control in git, and other related topics.

Dr. Ware is an Assistant Professor of Research in the Population, Neurodevelopment, and Genetics group at ISR, a self-taught HPC user, and an occasional instructor in the School of Information. Her training has been in genetic epidemiology, public health, and statistics using SAS (local), R (server), Linux (on GreatLakes, MBNI, and other personal servers), and batch scripting (SGE, PBS, Slurm). Dr. Ware has taught SAS (data management and statistical modeling), introductory statistics using R, and math methods for data scientists. She is experienced in teaching high performance computing to individuals with limited programming background.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 21 Jan 2020 14:45:45 -0500 2020-02-05T10:00:00-05:00 2020-02-05T11:30:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Winter 2020 CoderSpaces
CoderSpace with Yuki Shiraito and Jule Krüger (February 6, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71674 71674-17853511@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 6, 2020 4:30pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Do you write code for research or class? Do you sometimes get stuck? Are you just starting to learn how to code? Or, do you seek a social environment shared with fellow programmers? Writing code, or “programming,” can be a fun but also challenging and lonely enterprise. Hosted by members of the U-M community, our CoderSpaces are there for you to meet other coders, so you can connect and learn from your coder peers. Participation is open to anyone interested in writing code for computational social science, data science, statistics, social science method, engineering, etc., be they students, staff, or faculty. In our CoderSpaces, we seek to build a casual, productive and inclusive environment where everyone is welcome regardless of their skill or level of expertise, to share experiences and knowledge, assist each other in data-intensive projects, and enjoy peer-programming opportunities. We hope that participants will actively help each other as able. To participate, bring a laptop and some coding work, or just come and hang out, socialize, and assist others. Our hosts look forward to hacking with you!

Dr. Shiraito is a Research Faculty with the Center for Political Studies and an Assistant Professor in the Political Science Department. He is available to assist with a variety of topics that include Bayesian statistics, parallel computing in R, OpenMP and Rcpp, web scraping using Python, working with the University’s high performance computing clusters (Great Lakes and Cavium), and other computational methods.

Dr. Krüger is the ISR Program Manager for Big Data and Data Science, based within the Center for Political Studies at the Institute for Social Research. She has more than 10 years of experience in processing, analyzing and interpreting data for social science research, and automating workflows for scalable, auditable and reproducible analysis. Dr. Krüger can assist with R, Python, Markdown, Make, bash, LaTeX programming, and version control in git.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 21 Jan 2020 14:43:44 -0500 2020-02-06T16:30:00-05:00 2020-02-06T18:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Winter 2020 CoderSpaces
Three common assumptions about chronic inflammation that are probably wrong (February 10, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72643 72643-18035589@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 10, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Interdisciplinary Speaker Series - Developmental Origins of Health & Disease: Evolutionary & Epidemiological Approaches - Presented by the Evolution and Human Adaptation Program & The Research Center for Group Dynamics

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Presentation Fri, 07 Feb 2020 12:50:26 -0500 2020-02-10T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-10T17:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Department of Psychology Presentation McDade
CoderSpace with Paul Schulz and Chen Chen (February 11, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/71672 71672-17853484@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 11, 2020 10:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Do you write code for research or class? Do you sometimes get stuck? Are you just starting to learn how to code? Or, do you seek a social environment shared with fellow programmers? Writing code, or “programming,” can be a fun but also challenging and lonely enterprise. Hosted by members of the U-M community, our CoderSpaces are there for you to meet other coders, so you can connect and learn from your coder peers. Participation is open to anyone interested in writing code for computational social science, data science, statistics, social science method, engineering, etc., be they students, staff, or faculty. In our CoderSpaces, we seek to build a casual, productive and inclusive environment where everyone is welcome regardless of their skill or level of expertise, to share experiences and knowledge, assist each other in data-intensive projects, and enjoy peer-programming opportunities. We hope that participants will actively help each other as able. To participate, bring a laptop and some coding work, or just come and hang out, socialize, and assist others. Our hosts look forward to hacking with you!

Paul Schulz is a senior consulting statistician and data scientist for ISR's Population Dynamics and Health Program. He specializes in statistical methods and computing, including hypothesis testing, data analysis and modeling, sampling (including weight creation and adjustment, and power calculation), as well as the use of secure computing enclaves (SRCVDI, Likert cluster, and Flux/Great Lakes). Paul writes code in Stata and SAS for general-purpose desktop computing, and R and Python for selected applications, such as data visualization and web scraping/automation, among other uses.

Chen Chen is a data scientist, programmer, and consultant for ISR's Population Dynamics and Health Program. He specializes in survey methods (with a particular focus on survey statistics, sampling, and weighting), data management, and statistical computing, including large scale simulations of complex samples and statistical modeling using complex and longitudinal survey datasets. Chen is a high-level programmer who specializes in R, Python, and Stata, with a focus on computing in a Linux environment.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 21 Jan 2020 14:45:01 -0500 2020-02-11T10:00:00-05:00 2020-02-11T11:30:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Winter 2020 CoderSpaces
CoderSpace with Armand Burks and Erin Ware (February 12, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/71673 71673-17853498@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 12, 2020 10:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Do you write code for research or class? Do you sometimes get stuck? Are you just starting to learn how to code? Or, do you seek a social environment shared with fellow programmers? Writing code, or “programming,” can be a fun but also challenging and lonely enterprise. Hosted by members of the U-M community, our CoderSpaces are there for you to meet other coders, so you can connect and learn from your coder peers. Participation is open to anyone interested in writing code for computational social science, data science, statistics, social science method, engineering, etc., be they students, staff, or faculty. In our CoderSpaces, we seek to build a casual, productive and inclusive environment where everyone is welcome regardless of their skill or level of expertise, to share experiences and knowledge, assist each other in data-intensive projects, and enjoy peer-programming opportunities. We hope that participants will actively help each other as able. To participate, bring a laptop and some coding work, or just come and hang out, socialize, and assist others. Our hosts look forward to hacking with you!

Dr. Burks is a Research Data Scientist in Advanced Research Computing Technology Services (ARC-TS) and the School of Information. He specializes in evolutionary computation (genetic programming), and has professional experience in software development and writing cloud analytics. Dr. Burks is available to assist in general programming using C++, Java, and Python, bash commands/scripting, automation of tasks such as data parsing, transformation/conversion, workflow automation, etc., HPC job creation/submission, version control in git, and other related topics.

Dr. Ware is an Assistant Professor of Research in the Population, Neurodevelopment, and Genetics group at ISR, a self-taught HPC user, and an occasional instructor in the School of Information. Her training has been in genetic epidemiology, public health, and statistics using SAS (local), R (server), Linux (on GreatLakes, MBNI, and other personal servers), and batch scripting (SGE, PBS, Slurm). Dr. Ware has taught SAS (data management and statistical modeling), introductory statistics using R, and math methods for data scientists. She is experienced in teaching high performance computing to individuals with limited programming background.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 21 Jan 2020 14:45:45 -0500 2020-02-12T10:00:00-05:00 2020-02-12T11:30:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Winter 2020 CoderSpaces
CoderSpace with Yuki Shiraito and Jule Krüger (February 13, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71674 71674-17853512@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 13, 2020 4:30pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Do you write code for research or class? Do you sometimes get stuck? Are you just starting to learn how to code? Or, do you seek a social environment shared with fellow programmers? Writing code, or “programming,” can be a fun but also challenging and lonely enterprise. Hosted by members of the U-M community, our CoderSpaces are there for you to meet other coders, so you can connect and learn from your coder peers. Participation is open to anyone interested in writing code for computational social science, data science, statistics, social science method, engineering, etc., be they students, staff, or faculty. In our CoderSpaces, we seek to build a casual, productive and inclusive environment where everyone is welcome regardless of their skill or level of expertise, to share experiences and knowledge, assist each other in data-intensive projects, and enjoy peer-programming opportunities. We hope that participants will actively help each other as able. To participate, bring a laptop and some coding work, or just come and hang out, socialize, and assist others. Our hosts look forward to hacking with you!

Dr. Shiraito is a Research Faculty with the Center for Political Studies and an Assistant Professor in the Political Science Department. He is available to assist with a variety of topics that include Bayesian statistics, parallel computing in R, OpenMP and Rcpp, web scraping using Python, working with the University’s high performance computing clusters (Great Lakes and Cavium), and other computational methods.

Dr. Krüger is the ISR Program Manager for Big Data and Data Science, based within the Center for Political Studies at the Institute for Social Research. She has more than 10 years of experience in processing, analyzing and interpreting data for social science research, and automating workflows for scalable, auditable and reproducible analysis. Dr. Krüger can assist with R, Python, Markdown, Make, bash, LaTeX programming, and version control in git.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 21 Jan 2020 14:43:44 -0500 2020-02-13T16:30:00-05:00 2020-02-13T18:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Winter 2020 CoderSpaces
Framingham Heart Study: Fundamental Concepts of Cardiovascular Disease Risk (February 17, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72466 72466-18009371@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 17, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Interdisciplinary Speaker Series - Developmental Origins of Health & Disease: Evolutionary & Epidemiological Approaches - Presented by the Evolution and Human Adaptation Program & The Research Center for Group Dynamics

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Presentation Fri, 07 Feb 2020 13:04:21 -0500 2020-02-17T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-17T17:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Department of Psychology Presentation Ram
CoderSpace with Paul Schulz and Chen Chen (February 18, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/71672 71672-17853485@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 18, 2020 10:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Do you write code for research or class? Do you sometimes get stuck? Are you just starting to learn how to code? Or, do you seek a social environment shared with fellow programmers? Writing code, or “programming,” can be a fun but also challenging and lonely enterprise. Hosted by members of the U-M community, our CoderSpaces are there for you to meet other coders, so you can connect and learn from your coder peers. Participation is open to anyone interested in writing code for computational social science, data science, statistics, social science method, engineering, etc., be they students, staff, or faculty. In our CoderSpaces, we seek to build a casual, productive and inclusive environment where everyone is welcome regardless of their skill or level of expertise, to share experiences and knowledge, assist each other in data-intensive projects, and enjoy peer-programming opportunities. We hope that participants will actively help each other as able. To participate, bring a laptop and some coding work, or just come and hang out, socialize, and assist others. Our hosts look forward to hacking with you!

Paul Schulz is a senior consulting statistician and data scientist for ISR's Population Dynamics and Health Program. He specializes in statistical methods and computing, including hypothesis testing, data analysis and modeling, sampling (including weight creation and adjustment, and power calculation), as well as the use of secure computing enclaves (SRCVDI, Likert cluster, and Flux/Great Lakes). Paul writes code in Stata and SAS for general-purpose desktop computing, and R and Python for selected applications, such as data visualization and web scraping/automation, among other uses.

Chen Chen is a data scientist, programmer, and consultant for ISR's Population Dynamics and Health Program. He specializes in survey methods (with a particular focus on survey statistics, sampling, and weighting), data management, and statistical computing, including large scale simulations of complex samples and statistical modeling using complex and longitudinal survey datasets. Chen is a high-level programmer who specializes in R, Python, and Stata, with a focus on computing in a Linux environment.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 21 Jan 2020 14:45:01 -0500 2020-02-18T10:00:00-05:00 2020-02-18T11:30:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Winter 2020 CoderSpaces
CoderSpace with Armand Burks and Erin Ware (February 19, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/71673 71673-17853499@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 19, 2020 10:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Do you write code for research or class? Do you sometimes get stuck? Are you just starting to learn how to code? Or, do you seek a social environment shared with fellow programmers? Writing code, or “programming,” can be a fun but also challenging and lonely enterprise. Hosted by members of the U-M community, our CoderSpaces are there for you to meet other coders, so you can connect and learn from your coder peers. Participation is open to anyone interested in writing code for computational social science, data science, statistics, social science method, engineering, etc., be they students, staff, or faculty. In our CoderSpaces, we seek to build a casual, productive and inclusive environment where everyone is welcome regardless of their skill or level of expertise, to share experiences and knowledge, assist each other in data-intensive projects, and enjoy peer-programming opportunities. We hope that participants will actively help each other as able. To participate, bring a laptop and some coding work, or just come and hang out, socialize, and assist others. Our hosts look forward to hacking with you!

Dr. Burks is a Research Data Scientist in Advanced Research Computing Technology Services (ARC-TS) and the School of Information. He specializes in evolutionary computation (genetic programming), and has professional experience in software development and writing cloud analytics. Dr. Burks is available to assist in general programming using C++, Java, and Python, bash commands/scripting, automation of tasks such as data parsing, transformation/conversion, workflow automation, etc., HPC job creation/submission, version control in git, and other related topics.

Dr. Ware is an Assistant Professor of Research in the Population, Neurodevelopment, and Genetics group at ISR, a self-taught HPC user, and an occasional instructor in the School of Information. Her training has been in genetic epidemiology, public health, and statistics using SAS (local), R (server), Linux (on GreatLakes, MBNI, and other personal servers), and batch scripting (SGE, PBS, Slurm). Dr. Ware has taught SAS (data management and statistical modeling), introductory statistics using R, and math methods for data scientists. She is experienced in teaching high performance computing to individuals with limited programming background.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 21 Jan 2020 14:45:45 -0500 2020-02-19T10:00:00-05:00 2020-02-19T11:30:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Winter 2020 CoderSpaces
The Summer Institute: ISR's deep dive in Survey Research Techniques & Big Data (February 19, 2020 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72598 72598-18024701@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 19, 2020 11:30am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Take an hour dive into ISR's Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (SISRT). With our Faculty, you'll learn about:

- Big Data and Survey Data enhancement and intersection
- Continuing education to strengthen skill sets
- SISRT's long history & evolution
- Training opportunities & investment
- Distinction between SISRT and the ICPSR Summer Program

Now in its 73rd year, The Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques is a training program offered by the Survey Research Center at ISR providing summer courses in data collection, survey design and sampling methods to an international audience of research professionals and students from a variety of quantitative disciplines. Anyone who is interested in the survey research process can benefit from taking courses in the Summer Institute.

Presented by ISR Perspectives Committee in the Getting to Know ISR series.

Refreshments provided.

BLUEJEANS VIDEO ARCHIVE:
https://bluejeans.com/s/rZ0fP



SPEAKER BIOS:

BRADY T. WEST's research interests include the implications of measurement error in auxiliary variables and survey paradata for survey estimation, survey nonresponse, interviewer effects, and multilevel regression models for clustered and longitudinal data. He is the lead author of a book comparing different statistical software packages in terms of their mixed-effects modeling procedures "Linear Mixed Models: A Practical Guide using Statistical Software", and he is a co-author of a second book entitled "Applied Survey Data Analysis."

JAMES LEPKOWSKI received a PhD in biostatistics from the University of Michigan. His current research interests involve the development of survey data collection and analysis methods, including the design of telephone samples for households in the U.S.; the behavior of analytic statistics when data are obtained from complex sample surveys; imputation methods to compensate for item missing data in surveys; weighting to compensate for unit nonresponse; and the interaction between interviewer and respondent in the survey interview.

RAPHAEL NISHIMURA is the Director of Sampling Operations of the Survey Research Operations (SRO) within the Survey Research Center (SRC) at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research (ISR). He holds a PhD in Survey Methodology from the University of Michigan and a Bachelor's degree in Statistics from the University of São Paulo. His main research interest includes sampling methods, survey nonresponse and adaptive/responsive designs.

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Presentation Thu, 20 Feb 2020 14:07:41 -0500 2020-02-19T11:30:00-05:00 2020-02-19T13:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Presentation Summer Institute poster
CoderSpace with Yuki Shiraito and Jule Krüger (February 20, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71674 71674-17853513@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 20, 2020 4:30pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Do you write code for research or class? Do you sometimes get stuck? Are you just starting to learn how to code? Or, do you seek a social environment shared with fellow programmers? Writing code, or “programming,” can be a fun but also challenging and lonely enterprise. Hosted by members of the U-M community, our CoderSpaces are there for you to meet other coders, so you can connect and learn from your coder peers. Participation is open to anyone interested in writing code for computational social science, data science, statistics, social science method, engineering, etc., be they students, staff, or faculty. In our CoderSpaces, we seek to build a casual, productive and inclusive environment where everyone is welcome regardless of their skill or level of expertise, to share experiences and knowledge, assist each other in data-intensive projects, and enjoy peer-programming opportunities. We hope that participants will actively help each other as able. To participate, bring a laptop and some coding work, or just come and hang out, socialize, and assist others. Our hosts look forward to hacking with you!

Dr. Shiraito is a Research Faculty with the Center for Political Studies and an Assistant Professor in the Political Science Department. He is available to assist with a variety of topics that include Bayesian statistics, parallel computing in R, OpenMP and Rcpp, web scraping using Python, working with the University’s high performance computing clusters (Great Lakes and Cavium), and other computational methods.

Dr. Krüger is the ISR Program Manager for Big Data and Data Science, based within the Center for Political Studies at the Institute for Social Research. She has more than 10 years of experience in processing, analyzing and interpreting data for social science research, and automating workflows for scalable, auditable and reproducible analysis. Dr. Krüger can assist with R, Python, Markdown, Make, bash, LaTeX programming, and version control in git.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 21 Jan 2020 14:43:44 -0500 2020-02-20T16:30:00-05:00 2020-02-20T18:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Winter 2020 CoderSpaces
Evidence-Based Data Visualization (February 21, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72152 72152-17946490@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 21, 2020 9:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

PDHP kicks off our 2020 workshop series on Feb. 21st, with a workshop entitled Evidence-Based Data Visualization, presented by Dr. Audrey Michal of the Michigan Department of Psychology. This half-day workshop will provide a general introduction to data visualization techniques, while introducing a unique evidence-based approach to data viz design (based on Dr. Michal's research on visual routines in graph comprehension and interpretation), and different data visualization strategies for data exploration versus data explanation. Attendees will also get hands-on practice creating different types of data visualizations with R software, using GGPlot2 and other state-of-the-art R packages. As always, this workshop is free and open to the public.

Topics include:

• Introduction to data visualization and principles of data viz design
• Evidence-based practices for data viz (from Dr. Michal's research on graph interpretation)
• Data viz strategies for data exploration vs. explanation
• Hands-on practice creating different types of data visualizations using R's GGPlot2 package.

Registration Required:
https://pdhp.isr.umich.edu/workshops/

Dr Michal's current work focuses on developing and testing various learning interventions to teach middle and high school students scientific reasoning skills, such as how to critically evaluate evidence in science media reports.

The Population Dynamics and Health Program (PDHP) provides resources and services that support innovative approaches to data collection and analysis and the development of early-career population scientists, as well as research on significant and emergent issues in population dynamics and health.

PDHP is part of the Population Studies Center at the Institute for Social Research. Its faculty affiliates include population scientists from a diverse range of academic disciplines and departments.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 13 Feb 2020 14:15:53 -0500 2020-02-21T09:00:00-05:00 2020-02-21T13:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar event poster
Who Gets What They Want and Why? Black-White Differences in Pregnancy Desire and Pregnancy (February 24, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73037 73037-18129635@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 24, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

PSC Brown Bag Series presents Jennifer Barber:

This talk draws from two papers, one that investigates whether Black and white women's desires for pregnancy are different during the transition to adulthood, and another that investigates whether Black women who have a strong desire to postpone pregnancy are less likely to see those desires fulfilled than their white peers. The papers draw from Arline Geronimus' weathering framework and Linda Burton's ideas about uncertainty and instability in the Black community to understand Black-white differences in desires for young pregnancy, alongside Warren Miller's Traits-Desires-Intentions-Behavior framework to understand why some women are more likely than others to get what they want in terms of childbearing. Both papers use the Relationship Dynamics and Social Life dataset, which followed a sample of 914 young women ages 18 and 19 with weekly survey interviews for 2.5 years. The analyses also draw from 60 semi-structured interviews with a sub-sample of these women, in which interviewers discussed the women's desires and plans for their future, including childbearing.

We demonstrate that (1) Although young Black women are significantly more likely than young White women to express ambivalence or indifference toward a pregnancy in the near future, those feelings are very rarely expressed by women in either group; (2) Black women experience a smaller reduction in the risk of pregnancy when they do not desire to become pregnant compared to White women; and (3) This Black-White disparity is in part because Black women are more likely than White women to think their intimate partner wants them to get pregnant, which is in turn associated with less contraceptive use.

Other researchers' interpretations of higher rates of undesired pregnancy among Black women as evidence that they do not want to plan their pregnancies may exacerbate racial disparities in undesired pregnancy by facilitating White women's childbearing desires more than Black women's childbearing desires. In contrast, we conclude that it is likely that many Black women who say they want to delay pregnancy really do want to delay pregnancy, but are unable to do so.
BIO:

Jennifer Barber is Professor of Sociology and Research Professor in the Population Studies Center at University of Michigan. In Fall 2020, she will be Professor of Sociology and Senior Scientist at the Kinsey Institute, Indiana University. Barber's research and teaching interests lie at the intersection of family sociology, demography, and social psychology, with a focus on young/teen pregnancy, intimate relationships, reproductive control, and intimate partner violence. Her program of research has been continuously funded by NICHD for twenty years. She recently completed an intensive longitudinal data collection project, the Relationship Dynamics and Social Life (RDSL) study, which collected weekly surveys from 1,000 18- and 19-year-old women for 2.5 years, along with 75+ semi-structured interviews and administrative data. The RDSL focuses on the types of attitudes, intimate relationships, and contraceptive practices that lead to young pregnancy. Barber's work using these data integrates statistical and qualitative analyses. Her current projects focus on (1) how violent and/or demanding intimate partners derail young women's post-secondary education plans, (2) how the dissolution of violent and non-violent intimate relationships during the transition to adulthood varies across demographic groups, and (3) how intimate relationships shape young women's expectations and ability to control heterosexual intercourse and contraceptive use

PSC Brown Bag seminars highlight recent research in population studies and serve as a focal point for building our research community.

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Presentation Tue, 18 Feb 2020 11:37:55 -0500 2020-02-24T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-24T12:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Presentation Jennifer Barber talk poster
Early Life Influences on Adult Health and Wellbeing (February 24, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72467 72467-18009372@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 24, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Interdisciplinary Speaker Series - Developmental Origins of Health & Disease: Evolutionary & Epidemiological Approaches - Presented by the Evolution and Human Adaptation Program & The Research Center for Group Dynamics

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Presentation Fri, 07 Feb 2020 13:09:29 -0500 2020-02-24T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-24T17:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Department of Psychology Presentation Adair
CoderSpace with Paul Schulz and Chen Chen (February 25, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/71672 71672-17853486@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 25, 2020 10:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Do you write code for research or class? Do you sometimes get stuck? Are you just starting to learn how to code? Or, do you seek a social environment shared with fellow programmers? Writing code, or “programming,” can be a fun but also challenging and lonely enterprise. Hosted by members of the U-M community, our CoderSpaces are there for you to meet other coders, so you can connect and learn from your coder peers. Participation is open to anyone interested in writing code for computational social science, data science, statistics, social science method, engineering, etc., be they students, staff, or faculty. In our CoderSpaces, we seek to build a casual, productive and inclusive environment where everyone is welcome regardless of their skill or level of expertise, to share experiences and knowledge, assist each other in data-intensive projects, and enjoy peer-programming opportunities. We hope that participants will actively help each other as able. To participate, bring a laptop and some coding work, or just come and hang out, socialize, and assist others. Our hosts look forward to hacking with you!

Paul Schulz is a senior consulting statistician and data scientist for ISR's Population Dynamics and Health Program. He specializes in statistical methods and computing, including hypothesis testing, data analysis and modeling, sampling (including weight creation and adjustment, and power calculation), as well as the use of secure computing enclaves (SRCVDI, Likert cluster, and Flux/Great Lakes). Paul writes code in Stata and SAS for general-purpose desktop computing, and R and Python for selected applications, such as data visualization and web scraping/automation, among other uses.

Chen Chen is a data scientist, programmer, and consultant for ISR's Population Dynamics and Health Program. He specializes in survey methods (with a particular focus on survey statistics, sampling, and weighting), data management, and statistical computing, including large scale simulations of complex samples and statistical modeling using complex and longitudinal survey datasets. Chen is a high-level programmer who specializes in R, Python, and Stata, with a focus on computing in a Linux environment.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 21 Jan 2020 14:45:01 -0500 2020-02-25T10:00:00-05:00 2020-02-25T11:30:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Winter 2020 CoderSpaces
Building an Interdisciplinary Science on Cultural & Structural Racism (February 26, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70972 70972-17760245@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 26, 2020 10:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Interdisciplinary Science on Cultural & Structural Racism
Wednesday, February 26
10am - 6pm
ISR-Thompson 1430

Morning Session
10am - 12:00pm
Creating Diverse, Joyful, and Productive Working Groups

Working Group Lunches
12:30pm - 1:30pm

Afternoon Session
2pm - 4:30pm
Building an Interdisciplinary Science on Racism

Poster Session
4:30pm - 6pm

RacismLab invites you to join in celebrating its five-year anniversary, in conjunction with University-wide MLK 2020 programming, for the 2020 RacismLab Symposium and concurrent Poster Session on Wednesday, February 26.

NETWORKING LUNCH FOR POST-DOCS and FACULTY:
Early-career scholars (i.e., postdocs and assistant professors) are invited to sign up for the networking lunch during the symposium. The networking lunch, led by Dr. Debbie Rivas-Drake, will explore strategies for creating diverse, joyful, and productive research groups. For more information and to sign up for a working lunch roundtable: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSemIZfoohv6CHmg99EFgXlSEvfSQYmAJ4cvUUaVsy80hBCp7g/viewform

If you have any questions or require an accommodation to participate in this event, please contact Anna Massey at abeattie@umich.edu.

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 20 Feb 2020 15:38:30 -0500 2020-02-26T10:00:00-05:00 2020-02-26T18:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Conference / Symposium event flyer
CoderSpace with Armand Burks and Erin Ware (February 26, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/71673 71673-17853500@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 26, 2020 10:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Do you write code for research or class? Do you sometimes get stuck? Are you just starting to learn how to code? Or, do you seek a social environment shared with fellow programmers? Writing code, or “programming,” can be a fun but also challenging and lonely enterprise. Hosted by members of the U-M community, our CoderSpaces are there for you to meet other coders, so you can connect and learn from your coder peers. Participation is open to anyone interested in writing code for computational social science, data science, statistics, social science method, engineering, etc., be they students, staff, or faculty. In our CoderSpaces, we seek to build a casual, productive and inclusive environment where everyone is welcome regardless of their skill or level of expertise, to share experiences and knowledge, assist each other in data-intensive projects, and enjoy peer-programming opportunities. We hope that participants will actively help each other as able. To participate, bring a laptop and some coding work, or just come and hang out, socialize, and assist others. Our hosts look forward to hacking with you!

Dr. Burks is a Research Data Scientist in Advanced Research Computing Technology Services (ARC-TS) and the School of Information. He specializes in evolutionary computation (genetic programming), and has professional experience in software development and writing cloud analytics. Dr. Burks is available to assist in general programming using C++, Java, and Python, bash commands/scripting, automation of tasks such as data parsing, transformation/conversion, workflow automation, etc., HPC job creation/submission, version control in git, and other related topics.

Dr. Ware is an Assistant Professor of Research in the Population, Neurodevelopment, and Genetics group at ISR, a self-taught HPC user, and an occasional instructor in the School of Information. Her training has been in genetic epidemiology, public health, and statistics using SAS (local), R (server), Linux (on GreatLakes, MBNI, and other personal servers), and batch scripting (SGE, PBS, Slurm). Dr. Ware has taught SAS (data management and statistical modeling), introductory statistics using R, and math methods for data scientists. She is experienced in teaching high performance computing to individuals with limited programming background.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 21 Jan 2020 14:45:45 -0500 2020-02-26T10:00:00-05:00 2020-02-26T11:30:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Winter 2020 CoderSpaces
CoderSpace with Yuki Shiraito and Jule Krüger (February 27, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71674 71674-17853514@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 27, 2020 4:30pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Do you write code for research or class? Do you sometimes get stuck? Are you just starting to learn how to code? Or, do you seek a social environment shared with fellow programmers? Writing code, or “programming,” can be a fun but also challenging and lonely enterprise. Hosted by members of the U-M community, our CoderSpaces are there for you to meet other coders, so you can connect and learn from your coder peers. Participation is open to anyone interested in writing code for computational social science, data science, statistics, social science method, engineering, etc., be they students, staff, or faculty. In our CoderSpaces, we seek to build a casual, productive and inclusive environment where everyone is welcome regardless of their skill or level of expertise, to share experiences and knowledge, assist each other in data-intensive projects, and enjoy peer-programming opportunities. We hope that participants will actively help each other as able. To participate, bring a laptop and some coding work, or just come and hang out, socialize, and assist others. Our hosts look forward to hacking with you!

Dr. Shiraito is a Research Faculty with the Center for Political Studies and an Assistant Professor in the Political Science Department. He is available to assist with a variety of topics that include Bayesian statistics, parallel computing in R, OpenMP and Rcpp, web scraping using Python, working with the University’s high performance computing clusters (Great Lakes and Cavium), and other computational methods.

Dr. Krüger is the ISR Program Manager for Big Data and Data Science, based within the Center for Political Studies at the Institute for Social Research. She has more than 10 years of experience in processing, analyzing and interpreting data for social science research, and automating workflows for scalable, auditable and reproducible analysis. Dr. Krüger can assist with R, Python, Markdown, Make, bash, LaTeX programming, and version control in git.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 21 Jan 2020 14:43:44 -0500 2020-02-27T16:30:00-05:00 2020-02-27T18:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Winter 2020 CoderSpaces
CoderSpace with Paul Schulz and Chen Chen (March 3, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/71672 71672-17853487@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 3, 2020 10:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Do you write code for research or class? Do you sometimes get stuck? Are you just starting to learn how to code? Or, do you seek a social environment shared with fellow programmers? Writing code, or “programming,” can be a fun but also challenging and lonely enterprise. Hosted by members of the U-M community, our CoderSpaces are there for you to meet other coders, so you can connect and learn from your coder peers. Participation is open to anyone interested in writing code for computational social science, data science, statistics, social science method, engineering, etc., be they students, staff, or faculty. In our CoderSpaces, we seek to build a casual, productive and inclusive environment where everyone is welcome regardless of their skill or level of expertise, to share experiences and knowledge, assist each other in data-intensive projects, and enjoy peer-programming opportunities. We hope that participants will actively help each other as able. To participate, bring a laptop and some coding work, or just come and hang out, socialize, and assist others. Our hosts look forward to hacking with you!

Paul Schulz is a senior consulting statistician and data scientist for ISR's Population Dynamics and Health Program. He specializes in statistical methods and computing, including hypothesis testing, data analysis and modeling, sampling (including weight creation and adjustment, and power calculation), as well as the use of secure computing enclaves (SRCVDI, Likert cluster, and Flux/Great Lakes). Paul writes code in Stata and SAS for general-purpose desktop computing, and R and Python for selected applications, such as data visualization and web scraping/automation, among other uses.

Chen Chen is a data scientist, programmer, and consultant for ISR's Population Dynamics and Health Program. He specializes in survey methods (with a particular focus on survey statistics, sampling, and weighting), data management, and statistical computing, including large scale simulations of complex samples and statistical modeling using complex and longitudinal survey datasets. Chen is a high-level programmer who specializes in R, Python, and Stata, with a focus on computing in a Linux environment.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 21 Jan 2020 14:45:01 -0500 2020-03-03T10:00:00-05:00 2020-03-03T11:30:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Winter 2020 CoderSpaces
CoderSpace with Armand Burks and Erin Ware (March 4, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/71673 71673-17853501@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 4, 2020 10:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Do you write code for research or class? Do you sometimes get stuck? Are you just starting to learn how to code? Or, do you seek a social environment shared with fellow programmers? Writing code, or “programming,” can be a fun but also challenging and lonely enterprise. Hosted by members of the U-M community, our CoderSpaces are there for you to meet other coders, so you can connect and learn from your coder peers. Participation is open to anyone interested in writing code for computational social science, data science, statistics, social science method, engineering, etc., be they students, staff, or faculty. In our CoderSpaces, we seek to build a casual, productive and inclusive environment where everyone is welcome regardless of their skill or level of expertise, to share experiences and knowledge, assist each other in data-intensive projects, and enjoy peer-programming opportunities. We hope that participants will actively help each other as able. To participate, bring a laptop and some coding work, or just come and hang out, socialize, and assist others. Our hosts look forward to hacking with you!

Dr. Burks is a Research Data Scientist in Advanced Research Computing Technology Services (ARC-TS) and the School of Information. He specializes in evolutionary computation (genetic programming), and has professional experience in software development and writing cloud analytics. Dr. Burks is available to assist in general programming using C++, Java, and Python, bash commands/scripting, automation of tasks such as data parsing, transformation/conversion, workflow automation, etc., HPC job creation/submission, version control in git, and other related topics.

Dr. Ware is an Assistant Professor of Research in the Population, Neurodevelopment, and Genetics group at ISR, a self-taught HPC user, and an occasional instructor in the School of Information. Her training has been in genetic epidemiology, public health, and statistics using SAS (local), R (server), Linux (on GreatLakes, MBNI, and other personal servers), and batch scripting (SGE, PBS, Slurm). Dr. Ware has taught SAS (data management and statistical modeling), introductory statistics using R, and math methods for data scientists. She is experienced in teaching high performance computing to individuals with limited programming background.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 21 Jan 2020 14:45:45 -0500 2020-03-04T10:00:00-05:00 2020-03-04T11:30:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Winter 2020 CoderSpaces
ISR Reads Author Visit and Talk: William D Lopez, PhD (March 4, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73220 73220-18179627@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 4, 2020 10:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

ISR Reads Presents:

"Separated: Family and Community in the Aftermath of an Immigration Raid" by William D. Lopez.

In "Separated," Dr. Lopez examines the lasting damage done by this daylong act of collaborative immigration enforcement in Washtenaw County, Michigan. Exploring the chaos of enforcement through the lens of community health, Lopez discusses deportation's rippling negative effects on families, communities, and individuals.

Dr. Lopez is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, University of Michigan School of Public Health. Many of you may be familiar with Dr. Lopez and his work from his time in RCGD a few years ago. Dr. Lopez is also Faculty Director of Public Scholarship at the National Center for Institutional Diversity.

Limited copies of the books are available NOW to be signed out at ISR Thomson HR Office #1078 and the Perry Receptionist desk.

It is a pleasure to host Dr. Lopez at ISR for a visit on March 4th to present on his book! This is a special opportunity to meet the author and have your book signed!

Special Author Visit & Talk
Wednesday, March 4th
ISR Thompson 1430
10:00am-11:30am

Book Signing
11:30am-12noon

To purchase Dr. Lopez's book: https://bookshop.org/books?keywords=%099781421433318

If you have any questions or require an accommodation to participate in this event, please contact Anna Massey at abeattie@umich.edu.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 24 Feb 2020 09:18:25 -0500 2020-03-04T10:00:00-05:00 2020-03-04T11:30:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion poster
On the Perils of Intrauterine Determinism: An Epidemiologic Inquiry into the 2:4 Digit Ratio (March 9, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72468 72468-18009373@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 9, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Evolution & Human Adaptations Program (EHAP)

Interdisciplinary Speaker Series - Developmental Origins of Health & Disease: Evolutionary & Epidemiological Approaches - Presented by the Evolution and Human Adaptation Program & The Research Center for Group Dynamics

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Presentation Fri, 07 Feb 2020 13:32:49 -0500 2020-03-09T16:00:00-04:00 2020-03-09T17:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Evolution & Human Adaptations Program (EHAP) Presentation Eduardo
CoderSpace with Paul Schulz and Chen Chen (March 10, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/71672 71672-17853488@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 10, 2020 10:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Do you write code for research or class? Do you sometimes get stuck? Are you just starting to learn how to code? Or, do you seek a social environment shared with fellow programmers? Writing code, or “programming,” can be a fun but also challenging and lonely enterprise. Hosted by members of the U-M community, our CoderSpaces are there for you to meet other coders, so you can connect and learn from your coder peers. Participation is open to anyone interested in writing code for computational social science, data science, statistics, social science method, engineering, etc., be they students, staff, or faculty. In our CoderSpaces, we seek to build a casual, productive and inclusive environment where everyone is welcome regardless of their skill or level of expertise, to share experiences and knowledge, assist each other in data-intensive projects, and enjoy peer-programming opportunities. We hope that participants will actively help each other as able. To participate, bring a laptop and some coding work, or just come and hang out, socialize, and assist others. Our hosts look forward to hacking with you!

Paul Schulz is a senior consulting statistician and data scientist for ISR's Population Dynamics and Health Program. He specializes in statistical methods and computing, including hypothesis testing, data analysis and modeling, sampling (including weight creation and adjustment, and power calculation), as well as the use of secure computing enclaves (SRCVDI, Likert cluster, and Flux/Great Lakes). Paul writes code in Stata and SAS for general-purpose desktop computing, and R and Python for selected applications, such as data visualization and web scraping/automation, among other uses.

Chen Chen is a data scientist, programmer, and consultant for ISR's Population Dynamics and Health Program. He specializes in survey methods (with a particular focus on survey statistics, sampling, and weighting), data management, and statistical computing, including large scale simulations of complex samples and statistical modeling using complex and longitudinal survey datasets. Chen is a high-level programmer who specializes in R, Python, and Stata, with a focus on computing in a Linux environment.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 21 Jan 2020 14:45:01 -0500 2020-03-10T10:00:00-04:00 2020-03-10T11:30:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Winter 2020 CoderSpaces
CoderSpace with Armand Burks and Erin Ware (March 11, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/71673 71673-17853502@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 11, 2020 10:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Do you write code for research or class? Do you sometimes get stuck? Are you just starting to learn how to code? Or, do you seek a social environment shared with fellow programmers? Writing code, or “programming,” can be a fun but also challenging and lonely enterprise. Hosted by members of the U-M community, our CoderSpaces are there for you to meet other coders, so you can connect and learn from your coder peers. Participation is open to anyone interested in writing code for computational social science, data science, statistics, social science method, engineering, etc., be they students, staff, or faculty. In our CoderSpaces, we seek to build a casual, productive and inclusive environment where everyone is welcome regardless of their skill or level of expertise, to share experiences and knowledge, assist each other in data-intensive projects, and enjoy peer-programming opportunities. We hope that participants will actively help each other as able. To participate, bring a laptop and some coding work, or just come and hang out, socialize, and assist others. Our hosts look forward to hacking with you!

Dr. Burks is a Research Data Scientist in Advanced Research Computing Technology Services (ARC-TS) and the School of Information. He specializes in evolutionary computation (genetic programming), and has professional experience in software development and writing cloud analytics. Dr. Burks is available to assist in general programming using C++, Java, and Python, bash commands/scripting, automation of tasks such as data parsing, transformation/conversion, workflow automation, etc., HPC job creation/submission, version control in git, and other related topics.

Dr. Ware is an Assistant Professor of Research in the Population, Neurodevelopment, and Genetics group at ISR, a self-taught HPC user, and an occasional instructor in the School of Information. Her training has been in genetic epidemiology, public health, and statistics using SAS (local), R (server), Linux (on GreatLakes, MBNI, and other personal servers), and batch scripting (SGE, PBS, Slurm). Dr. Ware has taught SAS (data management and statistical modeling), introductory statistics using R, and math methods for data scientists. She is experienced in teaching high performance computing to individuals with limited programming background.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 21 Jan 2020 14:45:45 -0500 2020-03-11T10:00:00-04:00 2020-03-11T11:30:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Winter 2020 CoderSpaces
Event Update: Location Change - ISR Reads Author Visit and Talk: Harriet A. Washington (March 11, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73221 73221-18179628@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 11, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

ISR Reads Fall Book Selection: A Terrible Thing to Waste; Environmental Racism and It’s Assault on the American Mind

Wednesday, March 11, 2019 (Earth Week)
1:00pm to 3pm
ISR Thompson 1430ABCD

Virtual Live Stream Presentation with: Join us at ISR or online at https://bluejeans.com/569501572

In support of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion efforts at the University of Michigan and the Institute of Social Research and School of Public Health we are excited to partner in bringing an award-winning science writer Harriet A. Washington.

Washington will join us via livestream to discuss her book "A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind."

Ms. Washington adds her incisive analysis to the environmental discussion presenting an argument that IQ is a biased and flawed metric, one that it is useful for tracking cognitive damage. She takes apart the spurious notion of intelligence as an inherited trait, using copious data that instead point to a different cause of the reported African American-white IQ achievement gap.

The book explains that environmental racism - a confluence of racism and other institutional factors that relegate marginalized communities to living and working near sites of toxic waste, pollution, and insufficient sanitation services is terrible for the brain. Ms. Washington investigates heavy metals, neurotoxins, deficient prenatal care, bad nutrition, and even pathogens as chief agents influencing intelligence to explain why communities of color are disproportionately affected -- and what can be done to remedy this devastating problem.

Harriet A. Washington has been the Shearing Fellow at the University of Nevada's Black Mountain Institute, a Research Fellow in Medical Ethics at Harvard Medical School, and a senior research scholar at the National Center for Bioethics at
Tuskegee University. She is the author of Deadly Monopolies, Infectious Madness, and Medical Apartheid, which won a National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN/Oakland Award, and the American Library Association Black Caucus
Nonfiction Award.

Presentation Co-Sponsors: ISR (ISR Reads, SRC Racism Lab and PSC Population Dynamics and Health Programming & School of Public Health

If you have any questions or require an accommodation to participate in this event, please contact Anna Massey at abeattie@umich.edu.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 10 Mar 2020 09:34:03 -0400 2020-03-11T13:00:00-04:00 2020-03-11T15:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion flyer
CANCELLED Childhood Undernutrition: A Neglected Contributor to High Blood Pressure in Adulthood (March 16, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72604 72604-18026876@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 16, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Interdisciplinary Speaker Series - Developmental Origins of Health & Disease: Evolutionary & Epidemiological Approaches - Presented by the Evolution and Human Adaptation Program & The Research Center for Group Dynamics

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Presentation Mon, 16 Mar 2020 09:19:26 -0400 2020-03-16T16:00:00-04:00 2020-03-16T17:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Department of Psychology Presentation Strassman
CANCELLED Genomic Imprinting and the Intergenerational Transmission of Maternal Phenotypes (March 23, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72605 72605-18026877@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 23, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Interdisciplinary Speaker Series - Developmental Origins of Health & Disease: Evolutionary & Epidemiological Approaches - Presented by the Evolution and Human Adaptation Program & The Research Center for Group Dynamics

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Presentation Mon, 16 Mar 2020 09:19:57 -0400 2020-03-23T16:00:00-04:00 2020-03-23T17:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Department of Psychology Presentation Claudius
CANCELLED A Delicate Balance: Trade-offs, Strategies & Mechanisms of Female Reproduction (March 30, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72606 72606-18026878@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 30, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Interdisciplinary Speaker Series - Developmental Origins of Health & Disease: Evolutionary & Epidemiological Approaches - Presented by the Evolution and Human Adaptation Program & The Research Center for Group Dynamics

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Presentation Mon, 16 Mar 2020 09:20:48 -0400 2020-03-30T16:00:00-04:00 2020-03-30T17:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Department of Psychology Presentation Virginia
Census 2020: Opportunities and Challenges - Virtual Event (April 6, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71194 71194-17785608@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 6, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Virtual Event - https://bluejeans.com/693473684

The Michigan Population Studies Center presents a panel discussion on Census 2020: Opportunities and Challenges, with Barbara A. Anderson, William Frey, David Johnson.

PSC Brown Bag seminars highlight recent research in population studies and serve as a focal point for building our research community.

BIOS:

Dr. Anderson studies the relationship between social change and demographic change. Her research focuses on the former Soviet Union, China and South Africa. Her teaching centers on the relationship between social and demographic change and on technical demography.

Dr. Frey specializes in migration, population redistribution, and the demography of metropolitan areas. He is currently studying the dynamics of race and status-selective immigration and internal migration dynamics in U.S. metropolitan areas with the 1980-2000 Censuses. He also studies the migration and distribution of the elderly population in the U.S. as well as poverty migration determinants. Frey directs the Social Science Data Analysis Network (www.SSDAN.net) that creates demographic media for educators and policy-makers.

Dr. Johnson's research interests include the measurement of inequality and mobility (using income, consumption and wealth), the effects of tax rebates, equivalence scale estimation, poverty measurement, and price indexes.

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Presentation Tue, 07 Apr 2020 11:53:39 -0400 2020-04-06T12:00:00-04:00 2020-04-06T13:30:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Presentation U.S. Map
CANCELLED Long-Term Impacts of Nutrition Supplementation in Childhood: A 50-Year Study in Guatemala (April 6, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72607 72607-18026879@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 6, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Interdisciplinary Speaker Series - Developmental Origins of Health & Disease: Evolutionary & Epidemiological Approaches - Presented by the Evolution and Human Adaptation Program & The Research Center for Group Dynamics

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Presentation Mon, 16 Mar 2020 09:21:29 -0400 2020-04-06T16:00:00-04:00 2020-04-06T17:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Department of Psychology Presentation Stein
CANCELLED Why the stress response is actually a good thing: Examining survival across a natural disaster in a wild primate (April 13, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72608 72608-18026880@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 13, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Interdisciplinary Speaker Series - Developmental Origins of Health & Disease: Evolutionary & Epidemiological Approaches - Presented by the Evolution and Human Adaptation Program & The Research Center for Group Dynamics

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Presentation Mon, 16 Mar 2020 09:22:00 -0400 2020-04-13T16:00:00-04:00 2020-04-13T17:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Department of Psychology Presentation Jacinta
CANCELLED Racial Disparities in Cardiovascular Disease Over the Life Course (April 20, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72609 72609-18026881@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 20, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Interdisciplinary Speaker Series - Developmental Origins of Health & Disease: Evolutionary & Epidemiological Approaches - Presented by the Evolution and Human Adaptation Program & The Research Center for Group Dynamics

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Presentation Mon, 16 Mar 2020 09:22:31 -0400 2020-04-20T16:00:00-04:00 2020-04-20T17:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Department of Psychology Presentation Kerri