Regression Analysis

Linear Regression

Run a Regression Analysis ^{4 mins} Interaction Terms ^{17 mins} Easy Standard Error Adjustment with `estimatr` ^{5 mins} Doing Calculations with Regression Coefficients Using deltaMethod ^{4 mins} Compute Marginal Effects ^{7 mins} Fixed Effects Regression Assumptions ^{5 mins} Mediation Analysis Tutorial in R ^{15 mins} Understanding Linear Regression Summary Output in R ^{10 mins} Interpreting Regression Models in R ^{12 mins} Survival Analysis in R ^{12 mins}

Reporting

Evaluate Model Assumptions ^{3 mins}

Tests

Non-parametric Tests

Understanding the binomial test ^{8 mins} Chi-Squared Test ^{5 mins} Wilcoxon test ^{8 mins}

Testing OLS Assumptions

Evaluate Model Assumptions of an OLS Regression in R ^{3 mins} Testing and Correcting for Heteroskedasticity ^{16 mins} Testing for Serial Correlation ^{9 mins}

Causal Inference

Regression Discontinuity Designs (RDD)

Sharp RD Designs ^{7 mins} Regression Discontinuity Plots ^{9 mins} Continuity-Based Approach ^{6 mins} Fuzzy RD Designs ^{8 mins} Fuzzy RDD in Practice ^{4 mins} Local Randomization Approach ^{10 mins} Validation and Falsification Analysis for RDD ^{11 mins} RDD with Discrete Running Variables ^{13 mins} Regression Discontinuity in Time (RDiT) ^{15 mins}

Difference in Difference

An Introduction to Difference-in-Difference Analysis ^{8 mins} Difference-in-Difference as a Regression ^{9 mins} Staggered Difference-in-Difference Estimation ^{10 mins} Testing for Pre-trends in DiD and Event Studies ^{14 mins} Impact evaluation: RD vs DID ^{6 mins} Handling Parallel Trends Violations with `HonestDiD` in R ^{10 mins}

Panel Data

Event Studies for Causal Inference ^{10 mins} An Introduction to Panel Data ^{13 mins} The Fixed Effects Model (Within Estimator) ^{6 mins} Fixed-Effects Estimation in R With the `fixest` Package ^{9 mins} The Pooled OLS Model ^{3 mins} The First-Difference Estimator ^{4 mins} The Between Estimator ^{2 mins} The Random Effects Model ^{8 mins} Dynamic Panel Data Estimation with System-GMM ^{9 mins}

Matching

An Introduction to (Exact) Matching ^{10 mins} Propensity Score Matching: A Method for Approximate Matching ^{9 mins}

Instrumental Variables

Intro to IV Estimation ^{7 mins} The Shift-Share Instrumental Variable ^{7 mins}

Synthetic Control

Introduction to Synthetic Control Methods ^{11 mins} Synthetic Control Method without Exogenous Variables ^{11 mins} Synthetic Control for Impact Evaluation ^{5 mins}

Machine Learning and Predictive Modeling

Machine Learning 101

In-depth Introduction to Supervised Machine Learning ^{13 mins} In-depth Introduction to Unsupervised Machine Learning ^{17 mins} Get Introduced to Machine Learning ^{7 mins} Introduction to Deep Learning ^{11 mins} In-depth Introduction to Machine Learning and R ^{1 mins}

Supervised Machine Learning

Introduction to Random Forests in Python ^{11 mins} Support Vector Machines in Python ^{11 mins} Extreme gradient boosting with XGBoost in R ^{15 mins} Extreme Gradient Boosting with XGBoost in Python ^{5 mins} Loss Functions and Cost functions in Machine Learning ^{9 mins} Optimization in Machine Learning ^{7 mins} Linear Regression for Prediction in Python ^{8 mins} Classification for Prediction in Python ^{8 mins} Mitigating Overfitting in Decision Trees ^{11 mins} Detecting Overfitting with K-Fold Cross-Validation ^{6 mins}

Reporting Tables

tableFill for Reproducible Tables ^{4 mins} Make Tables and Figures Reproducible with Autofilling Values ^{2 mins} Converting Pandas DataFrames to LaTeX and Markdown Tables ^{4 mins} Create a publication-ready LaTeX regression table with `kableExtra` in R ^{14 mins} Stargazer: Exporting Publication-Ready Tables in R ^{2 mins}

Data Visualization

Graphs and Charts

Data Visualization Best Practices ^{11 mins} Plot Saving in R: Techniques and Best Practices ^{9 mins} Grammar of Graphics of ggplot2 ^{12 mins} Visualizing data with Plotnine and Altair ^{4 mins} Plotting with Matplotlib and Seaborn in Python ^{7 mins} Stata Graphs Made Easy ^{3 mins} Visualizing Time Series Data with ggplot2 ^{14 mins} Styling Bar Charts in ggplot2 ^{12 mins} Combining Statistical Testing and Visualization, directly in R using ggpubr and rstatix ^{9 mins} Dynamic Data Storytelling with Plotly ^{14 mins}

Regression Results

Generate a coefficient plot in R with the `modelplot` function ^{8 mins} Generate regression tables in R with the `modelsummary` package ^{39 mins} Forest Plot Generation in R ^{6 mins}

R-Shiny

Shiny Fundamentals: Introduction and Building Your First Shiny App ^{12 mins} Shiny Fundamentals: The User Interface ^{12 mins} Shiny Fundamentals: Reactive Programming ^{10 mins} Shiny Fundamentals: Introduction to Shiny Modules ^{8 mins} How to: Build a Data Exploration App in Shiny ^{11 mins} How to: Integrate Plotly within Shiny for Data Storytelling ^{11 mins} How to: Create the 'perfect' plot with R Shiny ^{13 mins} Advanced Customization: The bslib and thematic packages ^{10 mins} How to create a Shiny Dashboard using Shinydashboard: A User Interface Guide ^{13 mins} Build Interactive Dashboards with R Shiny ^{7 mins}

Data Storage

Surf Research Cloud

Set up SURF Research Drive to Store Data ^{6 mins}

Long Term Archiving

Choose a Data Repository for Long-Term Storage ^{5 mins}

Commercial Cloud

Use AWS S3 Buckets ^{5 mins} Handle storage within your Google Cloud instance ^{5 mins} Download Data Programmatically ^{8 mins}

Data Collection

Databases

From CSV to SQL Databases: Matching Data Solutions to Your Needs ^{4 mins} SQLite in R for Research Data Storage ^{3 mins} Online Data Collection and Management ^{1 mins} Online Data Sources for Economists ^{2 mins}

API's

Extract Data From APIs ^{5 mins} Read & Write Data From APIs ^{2 mins}

Web Scraping

Extract Data Using the YouTube API ^{5 mins} Avoid Getting Blocked While Scraping ^{2 mins} Web Scraping and API Mining ^{4 mins} Scrape Dynamic Websites ^{4 mins} Scrape Static Websites ^{5 mins} Assess what Data is Available ^{5 mins} Monitor and Safeguard Your Data Quality ^{4 mins} Safeguard Legal Compliance When Scraping ^{6 mins} Calculate Sample Sizes for Web Scrapers ^{2 mins}

Surveys

Creating Qualtrics Surveys and Exporting Data to R and Python ^{6 mins}

Loading and Importing Data

Import Large Datasets

Handle Large Datasets In Python ^{5 mins} Import Large Datasets Into R ^{10 mins} Practical Example with Dask ^{7 mins}

Getting Started

Data Preparation and Workflow Management ^{1 mins} SPSS Data in R ^{11 mins}

Manipulating and Cleaning Data

Textual Data

Learn Regular Expressions ^{12 mins} Text Pre-processing in Python ^{11 mins} Text Pre-processing in R ^{9 mins}

Numerical Data

Clean Numeric Data Scraped From Social Media ^{1 mins} Pandas for Data Manipulation in Python ^{16 mins}

Organizing your Research

Note Taking

Note Taking Systems in Academia ^{12 mins}

Writing an academic paper

Literature Review

Searching for Literature on the Web ^{3 mins}

Citations and References

Build and Maintain a Reference List ^{6 mins} Cite Efficiently in Your Academic Paper ^{5 mins}

Writing Process

Master Thesis Resource Bundle ^{1 mins} Prepare for your Master Thesis ^{8 mins} Chapter Structure of a Thesis or Academic Paper ^{13 mins} Mastering Academic Writing ^{6 mins}

Data and Coding Related

Coding, Workflow, and Data Management in a Research Project/Thesis ^{5 mins}

Templates and Dynamic Documents

Templates

LyX for Professional Research Papers and Presentations ^{2 mins} Get Started With Our Bookdown Thesis Template ^{2 mins} Get Started With Our LaTeX Thesis Template ^{1 mins} Cheatsheet for LaTeX Math Commands ^{10 mins}

Write Your First LaTeX Document in 15 Minutes

Part 1: The Fine Art of Typesetting ^{3 mins} Part 2: Setup LaTeX ^{2 mins} Part 3: Your First Article ^{7 mins} Part 4: Add a Bibliography ^{3 mins} Part 5: Useful Tips ^{3 mins}

Dynamic Reports

Citation Management within Rmarkdown ^{6 mins} Cross-Referencing within Rmarkdown ^{6 mins} Handling Figures in Rmarkdown ^{6 mins} Automate Converting Regression Results to LaTeX Equations in Rmarkdown ^{5 mins}

Replicability and Environment Management

Docker

Set up Docker ^{6 mins} Import and run a project environment with Docker on Google Cloud ^{13 mins} Export a Python Environment with Docker and Share It Through Docker Hub ^{13 mins}

Running Computations Remotely

Part 1: Cloud Computing ^{2 mins} Part 2: Launch Instance ^{2 mins} Running Computations Remotely ^{3 mins} Part 4: Move Files ^{1 mins} Part 5: Run Scripts ^{2 mins} Part 6: Terminate Instance ^{1 mins}

Cloud Computing

HPC TiU High-performance Computing ^{3 mins} Snellius: The Dutch National Supercomputer ^{2 mins} Cloud Computing with SURFsara's LISA Cluster ^{1 mins} Cloud Computing with SURFsara's Cartesius Cluster ^{1 mins} Getting Started with SURF Research Cloud (SRC) ^{6 mins} Setting Up a New Workspace, Configuring Git and Adding Research Drive on Research Cloud ^{4 mins} Set up the AWS Client ^{1 mins} Run RStudio on AWS using Docker ^{6 mins} Use Google Colab to Run Python in the Cloud ^{3 mins} Configure a VM with GPUs in Google Cloud ^{9 mins} Combine GitHub and Google Colab for Collaborative Development ^{7 mins} Monitor and solve memory constraints in your computational environment ^{6 mins}

Package Management

Package Management for R: renv ^{5 mins} Manage your R Packages with Packrat ^{6 mins} How to Automatically Install R Packages Used in a Project ^{3 mins}

Workflows

Principles of Project Setup and Workflow Management

Part 1: Project Setup Overview ^{5 mins} Part 2: Pipelines and Project Components ^{9 mins} Part 3: Data Management and Directory Structure ^{14 mins} Part 4: Automating your Pipeline ^{6 mins} Part 5: Documenting Datasets ^{1 mins} Part 6: Documenting Source Code and Pipeline Workflows ^{3 mins} Part 7: Part Versioning using Git and GitHub ^{9 mins} Part 8: Collaborating using GitHub ^{7 mins} Part 9: Checklist to Audit Data- and Computation-intensive Projects ^{4 mins}

Auditing Existing Projects

Use this Checklist to Improve Your Project's Structure and Efficiency ^{4 mins}

Starting a New Project

Starting Up a New Empirical Research Project ^{6 mins} Learn About the Various Ways to Setup a Research Infrastructure ^{6 mins}

Using Artificial Intelligence

Transcription and Command Line Tools

Making transcriptions using OpenAI's Whisper ^{4 mins}

Enhance your Research Using ChatGPT Models

Use ChatGPT for your research! ^{5 mins} GitHub Copilot in RStudio and VS Code ^{16 mins}

Automation Tools

Practicing Pipeline Automation using Make

Part 1: Pipeline Automation Overview ^{3 mins} Part 2: Verify Software Setup ^{1 mins} Part 3: Download the Template ^{2 mins} Part 4: Running the Workflow ^{1 mins} Part 5: Inspecting the Data-preparation Pipeline ^{1 mins} Part 6: Dry-run of Make and First Modifications ^{4 mins} Part 7: More Modifications ^{2 mins} Part 8: Extending the Analysis ^{1 mins} Part 9: Wrap-Up ^{2 mins}

Task Automation

Error Handling in Stata Workflows Using R ^{4 mins} Schedule Recurring Tasks (e.g., by day, hour) ^{6 mins}

Inside AirBnB - Workflow Walkthrough

Part 1: Airbnb Workflow Overview ^{1 mins} Part 2: Loading the Data ^{4 mins} Part 3: Transforming the Data ^{3 mins} Part 4: Exporting the Data ^{2 mins} Part 5: Automating Workflows ^{2 mins} Part 6: Conclusion ^{2 mins}

Deployment

Configure a Self-hosted runner for GitHub Actions workflows ^{10 mins} Enhance Reproducibility and Automation with GitHub Actions ^{6 mins} Implement a GitHub Actions workflow for code formatting and testing ^{7 mins}

Make and Makefiles

Use Makefiles to Manage, Automate, and Reproduce Projects ^{5 mins} Set up Make ^{4 mins} Debugging Makefiles With Remake ^{7 mins} Set up Snakemake ^{2 mins}

Version Control and Repository Management

Getting Started with Git and Github

Set up Git and GitHub ^{4 mins} Get Started With Using Git and GitHub ^{11 mins} The Most Important Git Commands You Should Know ^{4 mins} The GitHub Workflow ^{8 mins} Manage Your Projects Using the GitHub Project Board ^{2 mins} Best Practices for GitHub Issues Management ^{11 mins}

Advanced Git

Restoring Timestamps in Git Repositories ^{3 mins} Exclude Files from Versioning ^{2 mins} Git Branching Strategies ^{9 mins} Getting started with Tilburg's GitLab ^{7 mins} Best Practices for Naming Git Branches ^{3 mins} Best Practices for Git Commits ^{2 mins} Working with Large Files on GitHub ^{5 mins} Remove Sensitive or Large Files From Your Repository ^{2 mins}

Repository Lifecycle

Make Your GitHub Repository Citable using DOIs ^{1 mins} Archiving Repositories When They Are Done ^{2 mins} Export Repositories With GitHub Releases ^{2 mins}

Share your Work

Shoot Educational Videos

Part 1: What Is an Educational Video? ^{1 mins} Part 2: Buying Equipment for Educational Videos ^{21 mins} Part 3: Shooting Educational Videos ^{13 mins}

Create Your Own Website in 15 Minutes

Part 1: Hugo Website Overview ^{3 mins} Part 2: Get Hugo ^{2 mins} Part 3: Pick a Theme ^{3 mins} Part 4: Add Some Content ^{3 mins} Part 5: Go Live! ^{3 mins}

Content Creation for Research

Document New Data ^{11 mins} README Best Practices ^{5 mins} Pandoc: An Easy Document Converter ^{8 mins} Publish Ebooks and Interactive Articles Directly From R ^{2 mins} Automating Dynamic Reports With Quarto ^{6 mins} Create Your First Interactive Document With Quarto ^{9 mins} Build and Publish a Website With Quarto ^{6 mins}

Project Management and Team Sciences

Engage in open source projects

Contribute to Open Source Projects ^{5 mins}

Project Management on GitHub

Document and Share your Data using GitHub ^{5 mins} Use Overleaf to Collaborate on Research Papers ^{2 mins} Share Large Temporary Files ^{4 mins} Use Software Environments to Ensure Replicability ^{7 mins} Set up TeamViewer ^{2 mins} Safely Store Your Credentials By Configuring Environment Variables ^{4 mins}

Contribute to Tilburg Science Hub

Your Building Block Title (50-70 characters + most important keyword must be in the title atleast once) ^{3 mins} Your building block title (50-70 characters + most important keyword must be in the title atleast once) ^{2 mins} Style and Writing Guide ^{15 mins} Ways of contributing to Tilburg Science Hub ^{3 mins} Contribute using Pull Requests ^{6 mins} Add yourself as a Contributor ^{3 mins} Code of Conduct ^{2 mins} Adding Pages to Home Page Cards ^{2 mins}

Big Team Science

Bring Open Science Practices to your Research Group ^{1 mins} How to Prepare for (and Follow-up On) Scrum Meetings ^{2 mins} Linux file permissions ^{4 mins} Professionalize your Team Work Using Scrum ^{6 mins}

Developing Coding Skills

Coding Practices

Principles for Good Coding ^{3 mins} Parallel Computing in R ^{7 mins}

Bash

Learn Bash Commands ^{5 mins} Set up Command Line Tools ^{4 mins} Making Path Settings Permanent ^{3 mins} Bring AI to your command line/terminal ^{7 mins}

Software Installation

Introduction

Introduction to Causal Inference ^{5 mins} Statistical Power ^{11 mins}

Document Creation

Set up LaTeX ^{3 mins} Set up TeXmacs ^{2 mins} Set up Pandoc ^{3 mins} Set up Sublime Text ^{3 mins} Set up Quarto ^{2 mins}

Python

Set up Python ^{4 mins} Python Coding Style Guidelines ^{5 mins} Introduction to Coding With Python ^{12 mins} Install Python Packages ^{2 mins} Configuring Python for Web Scraping ^{5 mins} Configure Python Virtual Environments ^{5 mins}

Perl

Set up Perl ^{2 mins}

MATLAB

Set up Julia ^{1 mins} Set up MATLAB ^{1 mins}

Stata

Set up Stata ^{3 mins} Getting started with Stata ^{2 mins} Stata Coding Style Guidelines ^{5 mins} Install Stata Packages ^{2 mins}

IDE's

Comparing Text Editors ^{6 mins} Set up Visual Studio Code ^{4 mins} Software Setup Overview ^{2 mins} Other Programming Languages ^{1 mins}

R & RStudio

Set up R and RStudio ^{6 mins} Get Started With R ^{5 mins} R Coding Style Guidelines ^{5 mins}

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Topics

Analyze Data

Regression Analysis

Linear Regression

Reporting

Tests

Non-parametric Tests

Testing OLS Assumptions

Causal Inference

Regression Discontinuity Designs (RDD)

Difference in Difference

Panel Data

Matching

Instrumental Variables

Synthetic Control

Machine Learning and Predictive Modeling

Machine Learning 101

Supervised Machine Learning

Visualizing and Reporting

Reporting Tables

Reporting Tables

Data Visualization

Graphs and Charts

Regression Results

R-Shiny

Collect & Store

Data Storage

Surf Research Cloud

Long Term Archiving

Commercial Cloud

Data Collection

Databases

API's

Web Scraping

Surveys

Manage and Manipulate Data

Loading and Importing Data

Import Large Datasets

Getting Started

Manipulating and Cleaning Data

Textual Data

Numerical Data

Research Skills & Theses

Organizing your Research

Note Taking

Writing an academic paper

Literature Review

Citations and References

Writing Process

Data and Coding Related

Templates and Dynamic Documents

Templates

Write Your First LaTeX Document in 15 Minutes

Dynamic Reports

Automations and Workflows

Replicability and Environment Management

Docker

Running Computations Remotely

Cloud Computing

Package Management

Workflows

Principles of Project Setup and Workflow Management

Auditing Existing Projects

Starting a New Project

Using Artificial Intelligence

Transcription and Command Line Tools

Enhance your Research Using ChatGPT Models

Automation Tools

Practicing Pipeline Automation using Make

Task Automation

Inside AirBnB - Workflow Walkthrough

Deployment

Make and Makefiles

Version Control and Repository Management

Getting Started with Git and Github

Advanced Git

Repository Lifecycle

Collaborate and Share

Share your Work