Usability Testing in Survey Research

Usability testing in survey research allows in-depth evaluation of how respondents and interviewers interact with questionnaires, particularly web and mobile surveys. A respondent may understand the survey question and response options but may be unable to select their answer accurately on the small screen of a smartphone. For more information, please see the course website.... Read more »

Census Data for Urban Studies

This workshop will provide a hands-on, guided introduction to working with US Census data using tidycensus in R. The course will focus on using geographically-referenced demographic and socioeconomic data from the decennial census and American Community Survey. Registrants will learn how to acquire data, perform basic data preprocessing tasks & perform basic spatial and statistical... Read more »

Version Control and Collaboration with Git and GitHub

Participants will learn how to keep track of the code they use in their research using the version control system Git and the collaboration platform GitHub. Git and Github are applicable to any text-based programming or analysis language, including R, Python, Stata, Julia, and others. Participants should create a GitHub account at github.com and install... Read more »

Using the Twitter API for Research

In this course, participants will learn to use the Twitter Application Programming Interface to retrieve tweets for use in research. We will cover R packages to connect to the Twitter API, retrieve tweets from specific users or based on keywords, and extract follower networks (i.e. who follows who). Participants should register for a Twitter developer... Read more »

2022 Qualitative Research Summer Intensive

ResearchTalk and The Odum Institute at University of North Carolina present: 19th annual Qualitative Research Summer Intensive July 25-29 and August 3-5, 2022 - courses offered exclusively in online format • Join us for up to 8 days of qualitative research professional development courses. • Visit http://www.researchtalk.com/qrsi-2022/ for more information and a link to register.... Read more »

2022 Qualitative Research Summer Intensive

ResearchTalk and The Odum Institute at University of North Carolina present: 19th annual Qualitative Research Summer Intensive July 25-29 and August 3-5, 2022 - courses offered exclusively in online format • Join us for up to 8 days of qualitative research professional development courses. • Visit http://www.researchtalk.com/qrsi-2022/ for more information and a link to register.... Read more »

2022 Qualitative Research Summer Intensive

ResearchTalk and The Odum Institute at University of North Carolina present: 19th annual Qualitative Research Summer Intensive July 25-29 and August 3-5, 2022 - courses offered exclusively in online format • Join us for up to 8 days of qualitative research professional development courses. • Visit http://www.researchtalk.com/qrsi-2022/ for more information and a link to register.... Read more »