Berkeley Initiative for
Transparency in the Social Sciences

Upcoming Events

Reproducible Analytics workshop
In collaboration with the World Bank’s Development Impact Evaluation (DIME) group and the Innovations in Big Data Analytics program, BITSS will host a one-day workshop …
Catalyst workshop: Open Science for Early Career Researchers in Health
Elaine Toomey and colleagues are organizing Open Science in Health Research, a two-day introductory workshop for early career researchers on April 11-12, 2019 at the …
Research Transparency and Reproducibility Training (RT2) – Location TBD, USA
RT2 provides participants with an overview of tools and best practices for transparent and reproducible social science research. The curriculum is developed and delivered by …

The Future of Forecasting – Highlights from the BITSS Workshop on Forecasting Social Science Research Results
3 days ago
By Nicholas Otis, second-year PhD student in Health Economics at UC Berkeley This post is also published on the CEGA blog. Researchers are increasingly collecting forecasts of social science research …
Working toward a Common Rule for Transparent, Reproducible, and Ethical Research
2 weeks ago
by Jennifer Sturdy, BITSS Communalism, organized skepticism, disinterestedness, and universalism[1]. These scientific norms guide BITSS as an advocate for research transparency. From our perspective, research transparency is the means by …
ReproducibiliTea: A Reproducibility-themed Journal Club
2 months ago
ReproducibiliTea started as a journal club at the University of Oxford and is now also a podcast co-hosted by Sam Parsons, Amy Orben, and Sophia Crüwell. As the name suggests, …

Bárbara Farias Mota
Bárbara Maria Farias Mota is a Sociologist and a Masters student in Sociology at the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE) in Brazil. She co-founded The Political Macroscope, an open source interactive platform aiming to help the broader public to better understand the Brazilian elections data. She also founded the “Real Techno …

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