Conceptual and Statistical Knowledge

 

Global Data Tracker: country-level sanitation data explorer

Free browser-based exploration of published country-level statistics on access to at least basic sanitation. The interface provides historical indicator views, source references, reporting years and CSV downloads linked to a dated release. It can …

ASCENT FOSS Resource List for Global South Researchers

A curated, open-access directory of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) and research tools. Designed to support early-career researchers, particularly in the Global South, across the entire research lifecycle: data collection, …

A critique of using the labels confirmatory and exploratory in modern psychological research

Psychological science is experiencing a rise in the application of complex statistical models and, simultaneously, a renewed focus on applying research in a confirmatory manner. This presents a fundamental conflict for psychological researchers as …

Clusters

In order to teach Open and Reproducible Science effectively, educators need to make sense of almost a decade of literature, across several fields, and be informed about ongoing (and often dynamic) debates. This is a tall ask for most educators. So …

Computational social science is growing up: why puberty consists of embracing measurement validation, theory development, and open science practices

Puberty is a phase in which individuals often test the boundaries of themselves and surrounding others and further define their identity – and thus their uniqueness compared to other individuals. Similarly, as Computational Social Science (CSS) grows …

Critical Metascience Articles

Metascience is the science of science. Critical metascience takes a step back to question some common assumptions, approaches, problems, and solutions in metascience. Hence, it has also been described as meta-meta-science! The following is a …

Data management

A series of video of data management

Decisions, Decisions, Decisions: An Ethnographic Study of Researcher Discretion in Practice

This paper is a study of the decisions that researchers take during the execution of a research plan: their researcher discretion. Flexible research methods are generally seen as undesirable, and many methodologists urge to eliminate these so-called …

Economic Statistics with Calculus

A syllabus about economics and statistics

Error Tight: Exercises for Lab Groups to Prevent Research Mistakes

Scientists, being human, make mistakes. We transcribe things incorrectly, we make errors in our code, and we intend to do things and then forget. The consequences of errors in research may be as minor as wasted time and annoyance, but may be as …
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