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Content Creation for Research

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

Shoot Educational Videos

Shoot Educational Videos ^{1 mins} Shoot Educational Videos ^{13 mins} Shoot Educational Videos ^{21 mins}

Create Your Own Website in 15 Minutes

Create Your Own Website in 15 Minutes ^{3 mins} Create Your Own Website in 15 Minutes ^{2 mins} Create Your Own Website in 15 Minutes ^{3 mins} Create Your Own Website in 15 Minutes ^{3 mins} How to Add Content to Your Hugo Website ^{3 mins}

Project Management and Team Sciences

Project Management on GitHub

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

Contribute to Tilburg Science Hub

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

Big Team Science

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

Engage in open source projects

Contribute to Open Source Projects ^{5 mins}

Reporting Tables

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

Data Visualization

R-Shiny

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

Graphs and Charts

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

Using Artificial Intelligence

Enhance your Research Using ChatGPT Models

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

Transcription and Command Line Tools

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

Workflows

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}

Principles of Project Setup and Workflow Management

Replicability and Environment Management

Running Computations Remotely

Running Computations Remotely ^{1 mins} Running Computations Remotely ^{2 mins} Running Computations Remotely ^{2 mins} Running Computations Remotely ^{2 mins} Running Computations Remotely ^{1 mins} Running Computations Remotely ^{3 mins}

Docker

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

Cloud Computing

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

Package Management

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

Version Control and Repository Management

Advanced Git

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

Getting Started with Git and Github

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

Repository Lifecycle

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

Automation Tools

Inside AirBnB - Workflow Walkthrough

Conclusion ^{2 mins} Automating Workflows ^{2 mins} Exporting the Data ^{2 mins} Overview ^{1 mins} Loading the Data ^{4 mins} Transforming the Data ^{3 mins}

Task Automation

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

Make and Makefiles

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

Deployment

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

Practicing Pipeline Automation using Make

Practicing Pipeline Automation using Make ^{2 mins} Practicing Pipeline Automation using Make ^{2 mins} Practicing Pipeline Automation using Make ^{3 mins} Practicing Pipeline Automation using Make ^{1 mins} Practicing Pipeline Automation using Make ^{1 mins} Practicing Pipeline Automation using Make ^{2 mins} Practicing Pipeline Automation using Make ^{1 mins} Practicing Pipeline Automation using Make ^{1 mins} Practicing Pipeline Automation using Make ^{4 mins}

Software Installation

Stata

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

Python

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

Perl

Set up Perl ^{2 mins}

R & RStudio

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

Document Creation

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

MATLAB

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

IDE's

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

Developing Coding Skills

Bash

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

Coding Practices

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

Organizing your Research

Note Taking

Note Taking Systems in Academia ^{12 mins}

Writing an academic paper

Writing Process

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

Data and Coding Related

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

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}

Templates and Dynamic Documents

Write Your First LaTeX Document in 15 Minutes

Write Your First LaTeX Document in 15 Minutes ^{3 mins} Write Your First LaTeX Document in 15 Minutes ^{2 mins} Write Your First LaTeX Document in 15 Minutes ^{7 mins} Write Your First LaTeX Document in 15 Minutes ^{3 mins} Write Your First LaTeX Document in 15 Minutes ^{3 mins}

Dynamic Reports

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

Templates

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

Manipulating and Cleaning Data

Numerical Data

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

Textual Data

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

Loading and Importing Data

Import Large Datasets

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

Getting Started

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

Data Storage

Surf Research Cloud

Set up SURF Research Drive and Rclone to Store Data ^{3 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}

Surveys

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

API's

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

Web Scraping

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

Machine Learning and Predictive Modeling

Machine Learning 101

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

Supervised Machine Learning

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

Regression Analysis

Reporting

Evaluate Model Assumptions ^{3 mins}

Linear Regression

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

Tests

Non-parametric Tests

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

Testing OLS Assumptions

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

Causal Inference

Introduction

Statistical Power ^{11 mins} Introduction to Causal Inference ^{5 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} The Pooled OLS Model ^{3 mins} The Random Effects Model ^{8 mins} The First-Difference Estimator ^{4 mins} Fixed-Effects Estimation in R With the `fixest` Package ^{9 mins} The Between Estimator ^{2 mins} Dynamic Panel Data Estimation with System-GMM ^{9 mins}

Synthetic Control

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

Matching

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

Regression Discontinuity Designs (RDD)

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

Difference in Difference

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

Instrumental Variables

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

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Content Creation for Research

Shoot Educational Videos

Create Your Own Website in 15 Minutes

Project Management and Team Sciences

Project Management on GitHub

Contribute to Tilburg Science Hub

Big Team Science

Engage in open source projects

Visualizing and Reporting

Reporting Tables

Reporting Tables

Data Visualization

R-Shiny

Graphs and Charts

Regression Results

Automations and Workflows

Using Artificial Intelligence

Enhance your Research Using ChatGPT Models

Transcription and Command Line Tools

Workflows

Auditing Existing Projects

Starting a New Project

Principles of Project Setup and Workflow Management

Replicability and Environment Management

Running Computations Remotely

Docker

Cloud Computing

Package Management

Version Control and Repository Management

Advanced Git

Getting Started with Git and Github

Repository Lifecycle

Automation Tools

Inside AirBnB - Workflow Walkthrough

Task Automation

Make and Makefiles

Deployment

Practicing Pipeline Automation using Make

Computer Setup

Software Installation

Stata

Python

Perl

R & RStudio

Document Creation

MATLAB

IDE's

Developing Coding Skills

Bash

Coding Practices

Research Skills & Theses

Organizing your Research

Note Taking

Writing an academic paper

Writing Process

Data and Coding Related

Literature Review

Citations and References

Templates and Dynamic Documents

Write Your First LaTeX Document in 15 Minutes

Dynamic Reports

Templates

Manage and Manipulate Data

Manipulating and Cleaning Data

Numerical Data

Textual Data

Loading and Importing Data

Import Large Datasets

Getting Started

Collect & Store

Data Storage

Surf Research Cloud

Long Term Archiving

Commercial Cloud

Data Collection

Databases