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Research Transparency and Reproducibility Training (RT2) Virtual 2021
Aug. 23-Sep.3 — BITSS will hold its next Research Transparency and Reproducibility Training (RT2) on 08/23, 08/25, 09/01, and 09/03/2021. RT2 will be hosted online …
Catalyst workshop: Pre-doctoral Research in Economics 2021
June 12-13 – Catalyst Jun Wong and colleagues Coly Elhai and Dominic Russel hosted the Pre-doctoral Research in Economics (PRE) 2021 virtual workshop, which provides …
Workshop: Teaching Reproducible Research in the Classroom
Jun. 2, online — At 3-5 pm PT, BITSS, the AEA Data Editor, and the Research Division of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis …

Blog

Using Open Policy Analysis to Fight Alternative Facts
1 week 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 …
A Note on Open Science in Language Research and Some Observations from a Graduate Course Module
2 weeks ago
By Esra Ataman, Ozan Can Çağlar, and Bilal Kırkıcı Introduction from BITSS: In this post, Esra Ataman, Bilal Kirkici, and Ozan Can Çağlar reflect on their project supported by one …

Catalyst Spotlight

Fernando Hoces

UC Berkeley

Public Policy

Fernando Hoces de la Guardia is a Ph.D. candidate in Policy Analysis at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. His work is about increasing the transparency and reproducibility of policy analysis as a way to strengthen the connection between policy and evidence. Before RAND, he studied economics and worked in public policy doing…