BITSS is pleased to announce its 3rd annual meeting (December 11-12 – Berkeley, CA). This year’s research transparency meeting will be the first to be open to the public and is anticipated to be the largest BITSS event to date. The event will act to update the academic community of the growing movement for greater…
Call for Papers on Research Transparency
BITSS will be holding its 3rd annual conference at UC Berkeley on December 11-12, 2014. The goal of the meeting is to bring together leaders from academia, scholarly publishing, and policy to strengthen the standards of openness and integrity across social science disciplines. This Call for Papers focuses on work that elaborates new tools and strategies to increase the transparency and reproducibility of research. A committee of…
Data Access and Research Transparency Panel @ APSA 2014
Join the BITSS co-sponsored panel Implementing Data Access and Research Transparency: Multiple Challenges, Multiple Perspectives at the upcoming meeting of the American Political Science Association (August 27-31, 2014 — Washington, DC). Chairs: Colin Elman, Syracuse University Arthur Lupia, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Data Science Meets Social Science (Video)
The video from a recent BITSS roundtable entitled “Data Science Meets Social Science” is now available online. Organized in partnership with the UC Berkeley D-Lab, the event brought together leading social scientists and Silicon Valley professionals to discuss pathways of collaboration between the two different fields, and their increasing impact on society in the…
Privacy, Big Data, and the Public Good
Videos and presentations from the book launch of “Privacy, Big Data and the Public Good” (Lane, J., Stodden, V., Bender, S. & Nissenbaum, H. (Eds)) are now available online. Hosted by the NYU Center for Urban Science on July 16, the event included several panels with the book’s editors and a number of the authors. Overview of the book: Massive amounts of new data about people,…
Summer Institute Material Now Available
All the material from our summer institute in transparency practices for empirical research is now accessible on our training page. This weeklong workshop provides an overview of the latest trends in the shift towards increased transparency, combining presentations on conceptual issues in current research practices with hands-on training on emerging tools and approaches…
Future Steps for Research in Dishonesty
The Economic Science Association, an experimental economics professional organization, recently organized a workshop about dishonesty research at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. The panel was composed of Mike Norton (Harvard Business School), Johannes Abeler (Oxford University), Marco Piovesan (University of Copenhagen), and Roberto Weber (University of Zurich). The discussion focused on future directions for research in…
Tonight! Data Science Meets Social Science
Tonight in Berkeley! June 5, 2014 6:00pm — 7:30pm. David Brower Center (Kinzie Room), 2150 Allston Way. All across the social sciences we can see a convergence around the ideals of openness and reproducibility. Over the past years, the injection of ways of thinking and working from scientific computing into social science research has helped…
The Ethics of Using and Sharing Data for Development Programming (5/22 @ NYC)
The Responsible Data Forum is a new effort to map the ethical, legal, privacy and security challenges surrounding the increased use and sharing of data in development programming. The Forum aims to explore the ways in which these challenges are experienced in project design and implementation, as well as when project data is…
Tomorrow — West Coast Experiments Conference @ Claremont Graduate University
Tomorrow at Claremont Graduate University (Burkle Building, Room 16). One workshop to focus on research transparency and integrity: Session II (12:45 to 3:15, 45 minutes for the papers, one hour for the training session) Neil Malhotra (Stanford), “Publication Bias in Political Science: Using TESS Experiments to Unlock the File Drawer” Thad Dunning (Berkeley),…
Open Data Workshops (London, UK)
The Open Data Institute is organizing multiple workshops (May 12-16, July 21-25 | London, UK) to introduce the technical, commercial and legal aspects of open data. The courses aim to highlight key opportunities for working with open data and how these can be exploited across government, business and society. The workshops are designed to enable…
Reproducibility Session @ AAAS Forum on Science and Technology Policy
A core value of science is the ability to reproduce the findings of others in order to check for methodological rigor, errors, plausible interpretations, and/or misconduct. However, for a variety of reasons, from lack of time or resources to little professional recognition or credit for doing so, science may be failing to…
Panel on Transparency and Replication @ EGAP 11 (Berkeley, CA — Friday 4/11)
Experiments in Governance and Politics (EGAP) will be holding its eleventh bi-annual meeting in Berkeley, CA this Friday and Saturday (April 11-12). In addition to research design workshops and recent papers presentations, the meeting will feature an interdisciplinary panel on transparency and replication (Friday, 3.50-6.00pm): 3:50 – 4:10 PM Thad Dunning “EGAP Regranting…
Transparency Seminar @ NYU
Ted Miguel (UC Berkeley) will provide an overview of and update on BITSS at New York University on Friday, April 4. Sponsored by the Development Research Institute, the presentation will cover recent progress toward research transparency in the social sciences, and make the case for standards and practices that help realign scholarly incentives with scholarly values. Time: Friday,…
Deadline Extended for BITSS Summer Institute!
The deadline for applying to the BITSS Summer Institute (June 2-5, 2014 – Berkeley, CA) has been extended to Wednesday, April 2. The week-long course will cover a broad array of topics related to openness and transparency in social science research, including the theory and implementation of pre-analysis plans; building reproducible knowledge; emerging techniques to carry…
A Discussion with Victoria Stodden (April 3 — Washington, DC)
The AAAS FIRE and Big Data Affinity groups are co-hosting an informal discussion with Victoria Stodden (Columbia University, Department of Statistics) on Thursday April 3 at 6pm in the Kogod Courtyard of the National Portrait Gallery, in Washington, DC. The debate will focus on the role of data and software in scientific research and funding.…
Replication Panels at ISA 2014
The 55th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association (March 26-29, 2014 – Toronto, Canada) will feature two panels on replication and reproducibility: Friday, March 28 8:15 AM – 10:00 AM Replication in International Relations: How Journal Data Policies and Replication in Teaching Can Improve Reproducibility Standards Friday, March 28 10:30 AM…
Deadline Coming Up for BITSS Summer Institute!
Applications for the first BITSS Summer Institute (June 2-5, 2014 – Berkeley, CA) are due by Wednesday, March 26. The workshop will inform participants about the latest trends in the shift towards increased transparency in the social sciences, providing an overview of new tools and techniques for rigorous research in economics, political science, psychology,…
Announcing the BITSS Summer Institute
Registration is now open for the first BITSS summer institute (June 2-5, 2014 – Berkeley, CA). The workshop is designed for students, post-docs, and junior faculty eager to learn more about new transparency tools available and appropriate for their own research in economics, political science, psychology or another related discipline. Course description, list of…
Annual Meeting Pictures
Pictures of the BITSS annual conference are up on the event page. Meeting resources coming soon.
Open Data Training Course
The Open Knowledge Foundation is organizing an introductory course on open data on Friday, December 6 in London. This one-day workshop is oriented towards organisations considering starting their own open data initiative. Topics to be covered include the benefits of opening data, regulatory requirements, data licensing, data quality and formats, planning an…
Setting up a replication workshop: Typical Challenges
AEA RCT Registry Webinar This Friday
The American Economic Association’s RCT Registry is a registration tool for pre-analysis plans of Randomized Controlled Trials in economics and other social sciences. The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) will be hosting a brown bag webcast this Friday, September 20th at 1pm (EDT) to go over the motivations behind the registry and…