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Metascience 2021 Conference
Sep. 16-18 and 23-25 — BITSS is an organizing partner of the 2021 Metascience Conference, which convenes researchers and stakeholders to share knowledge, foster community, …
UC Berkeley ReproducibiliTea Fall 2021 Meetings
Oct 13 – BITSS is a founding partner of the UC Berkeley ReproducibiliTea Journal Club, one of over 137 ReproducibiliTea chapters worldwide, established to help …
Catalyst workshop: Transparency and Reproducibility in Health Economics
Sep. 22-23 — As part of her Catalyst project, Andrea Salas-Ortiz is organizing an online workshop to promote, improve, and implement tools for transparency and …

Blog

Introducing the Social Science Reproduction Platform, a resource for teaching and improving computational reproducibility
2 months ago
By Aleksandar Bogdanoski (Project Manager, BITSS), Fernando Hoces de la Guardia (Project Scientist, BITSS), Edward Miguel (Faculty Director, CEGA/BITSS), and Lars Vilhuber (Executive Director, Labor Dynamics Institute, Cornell University, and …
Using Open Policy Analysis to Fight Alternative Facts
5 months ago
By Fernando Hoces de la Guardia This post was originally published on the CEGA Blog on May 25, 2021. The emergence of “alternative facts” and post-truth politics is usually associated …

Catalyst Spotlight

Baobao Zhang

Yale University

Political Science

I am a third year PhD student in political science at Yale University currently researching as an exchange scholar at MIT. My research focuses on public policy and political science methodology. In the past, I have worked as an intern developer at Plotly, a data visualization software startup that promotes data transparency…