The Methods Lab’s internal workshops are listed below. Here is a list of external events.
Upcoming Events
- March 7, 2025: Tutorial: “Career Tutorial on LLMs for all Expertise Levels“, with Mathis Börner (SAP)
- March 12–13, 2025: Workshop “Introduction to Programming and Data Analysis with R“, with Roland Toth (WI)
- April 3–4, 2025: Workshop “Social Science and Language Models – Methods and theory to responsible research on and with Language Technologies” with Zeerak Talat (University of Edinburgh) and Flor Miriam Plaza del Arco (Bocconi University)
Past Events
2025
- February 6, 2025: Workshop “Introduction to Git“, with LK Seiling, Sascha Kostadinoski, and Quentin Bukold (WI)
2024
- November 26, 2024: Workshop “Research in Practice – Attending to Algorithms in and around Organizations“, with Maximilian Heimstädt (Helmut Schmidt University)
- November 18, 2024: Show and Tell: “OpenQDA – A Sustainable and Open Research Software for Collaborative Qualitative Data Analysis“, with Florian Hohmann (ZeMKI Bremen)
- September 17, 2024: Tutorial “Analyzing Digital Trace Data using Process Mining“, with Jan Mendling (HU)
- September 3, 2024: Workshop “Open Research: Principles, Practices, and Implementation“, with Tobias Dienlin (University of Vienna)
- May 6, 2024: Workshop “Introduction to High Performance Computing (HPC)“, with Loris Bennett (FU)
- April 22, 2024: Workshop “Current developments in NLP research“, with Sneha Jha and Dominik Schindler (both Imperial College London)
- April 18, 2024: Workshop “Research Ethics – Principles and Practice in Digitalization Research“, with Christine Normann (WZB), Julian Vuorimäki (WI), Maximilian Heimstädt (HSU), Tiangling Yang, and Christian Strippel (both WI)
- April 10–11, 2024: Workshop “Introduction to Programming and Data Analysis with R“, with Roland Toth (WI)
- February 22, 2024: Workshop “Introduction to Online Surveys“, with Martin Emmer (FU Berlin/WI), Christian Strippel, and Roland Toth (both WI)
2023
- November 30, 2023: Workshop “A Practical Introduction to Text Analysis“, with Dr. Douglas Parry (Stellenbosch University)
- September 14, 2023: Workshop “Theory Construction: Building and Advancing Theories for Empirical Social Science“, with Adrian Meier (U Erlangen-Nürnberg)
- August 30, 2023: Workshop “Whose data is it anyway? Ethical, practical, and methodological challenges of data donation in messenger groups research“, with Sérgio Barbosa (U Coimbra), Katharina Knop-Hülß (HMTMH Hannover), Connie Moon Sehat (Hacks/Hackers), and Julian Kohne (GESIS); co-organized with Olga Pasitselska (U Groningen); co-organized with RG “Platform Algorithms and Digital Propaganda”
- June 15, 2023: Workshop “Introduction to Topic Modeling“, with Daniel Matter (TU Munich)
- May 4, 2023: Brown Bag Talk “Interdisciplinarity 101“, with Silvio Suckow & Sara Saba (both WI)
- April 20, 2023: Brown Bag Talk “Article 40 of the Digital Service Act – Researcher Access to Platform Data“, with Jakob Ohme & Christian Strippel (both WI)
- March 29–30, 2023: Workshop “Introduction to Programming and Data Analysis with R“, with Roland Toth (WI)
- March 2, 2023: Workshop “Web Scraping and API-based Data Collection“, with Florian Primig (FU Berlin), Steffen Lepa (TU Berlin), Felix Gaisbauer, and Lion Wedel (both WI)
2022
- November 29, 2022: Workshop “Finding and Coding Studies for Meta-analyses and Literature Reviews in Political Communication“, by Shelley Boulianne (U of Wisconsin-Madison); co-organized with RG “Digital News Dynamics”
- November 21, 2022: Workshop “Social Media Analytics: From Raw Data to Engagement Metrics“, by Axel Bruns (U of Queensland); co-organized with RG “Digital News Dynamics”