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	Upgrade your research toolkit with these four innovative additions to our 2026 Summer School program

Dr Mario Callegaro, Callegaro Research

Crafting online surveys and AI survey assistance

Learn to leverage AI tools at every step of the survey process—from questionnaire design to data collection. This new workshop ensures your surveys are state-of-the-art, efficient, and methodologically robust, bridging the gap between traditional research and cutting-edge technology.

Dr. Chendi Wang, Vrije Universiteit, NL

Time Series Analysis for the Social Sciences

Master temporal dependence, dynamic relationships, and error-correction models using R and Stata. This major new addition provides the essential tools to diagnose and model complex longitudinal patterns, ensuring your political or economic theories align perfectly with your data.

Prof. Lukasz Walasek, University of Warwick, UK

Working with Large Online Datasets for Social Science R

Master web scraping, data mining, and big data techniques in R to unlock the digital insights of the internet. Completely refreshed for 2026, this course teaches you to build web crawlers and navigate the ethics of harvesting massive online datasets to transform your research.

Prof. Marco Steenbergen , University of Zurich, Switzerland

Practical Machine Learning for Surveys, Panels, and Exp

Move beyond abstract theory to anchor ML in daily research tasks. This fully redesigned course covers tree-based algorithms, causal ML, and deep learning, specifically applied to cleaning, specifying, and extracting structure from survey, panel, and experimental data.

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