Conferences and Workshops

Researchers at UChicago and Duke invite you to apply for the 2nd annual Collaborative for Innovation in Data & Measurement in Aging (CIDMA) Institute, held at the University of Chicago. The goal of CIDMA is to identify, design, conduct and assess innovations in data collection and measurement within longitudinal research on aging and disseminate the findings of these assessments broadly. Learn more about current CIDMA assessment projects here.

The Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) announces a call for papers for the 2023 PSID Annual User Conference. The conference encourages submissions that use data from PSID or its supplements—the Child Development Supplement (CDS), the Transition into Adulthood Supplement (TAS), the Disability and Use of Time Supplement (DUST), the Childhood Retrospective Circumstances Study (CRCS), or the Wellbeing and Daily Life Supplement (WB).

Demography Daze is back! Demography Daze is a unique one-day collaboration with Carolina Population Center where scholars and students present their work. The event encourages the exchange of ideas between centers, fosters collaboration, and demonstrates the strengths of both centers. This year, DUPRI will host the 9th annual Demography Daze on Friday, September 15 from 1:00PM - 5:15PM in Gross Hall room 270. A reception will follow on the Gross Hall Portico. Please join us!

Drawing from experiences of dozens of cash transfer programs in low- and middle-income countries, Dr. Paul Niehaus will summarize key findings and share his internationally informed perspective, covering challenges to designing and launching randomized controlled studies, interpreting evidence from diverse contexts, and highlighting features that translate across contexts, including the U.S.

The Center for Child and Family Policy invites you to the Sulzberger Distinguished Lecture featuring Kathryn Edin, William Church Osborn Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton University, and Timothy Nelson, lecturer in the Department of Sociology at Princeton.

DUPRI will be hosting an Introduction to R virtual workshop. This 4-hour training (one morning and one afternoon session) will introduce you to the R programming language for statistical computing. The class is suitable for beginners who have never used R and is geared toward users of Stata/SAS/SPSS.

DUPRI will be hosting a workshop, Collecting Web-Based Data Using R, on November 17. This 4-hour training provides an introduction to collecting web-based data using R. It covers making HTTP requests, web scraping, working with structured or scraped web data, interacting with APIs, and obtaining open data. Some prior experience using R is recommended.

DUPRI will be hosting a workshop, Text Analysis Using R, on December 1. This 4-hour training provides an introduction to computational text analysis using R. It covers data import and formatting, cleaning and prepping documents, data visualization, exploratory analysis, basic network analysis, and topic modeling. Some prior experience using R is recommended.

DUPRI will be hosting a virtual workshop, “Working with Big Data, SQL, and Cloud Computing using R,” on February 27. This 2-hour training provides an introduction to working with remote structured databases, performing SQL queries, and accessing and using cloud computing services like Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud Compute Engine. The training will focus specifically on the R programming language. Some prior experience using R is recommended.

We are delighted to announce the upcoming NIA-funded workshop "Leveraging Existing Data and Analytic Methods For Health Disparities Research Related to Aging and Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias," scheduled to take place on March 11-12, 2024 at JB Duke Hotel, Durham. Registration is now open.