An Online International Methods Colloquium for Quantitative Methodology in Political Science

该项目每周开发、组织和制作一次互动式在线研讨会，讨论在社会研究，特别是政治学中使用定量和统计分析。该项目将利用现成的、经商业验证的技术，使政治学和相关领域的方法学家与世界各地的学者、学生、政策制定者和行业从业者进行互动对话，而参与者无需支付旅行或场地费用。该项目的目标是促进新的数据分析定量技术的发展和应用，以适用于社会、行为和经济现象的研究，使世界各地积极参与定量分析在社会和经济科学、政府和行业的发展和应用的学者和专业人士能够进行低成本的合作和讨论。并为对定量分析和社会科学研究设计感兴趣的学生、从业者和政策制定者提供免费的教育资源。参与将是免费的，只需要一个计算设备（智能手机，平板电脑或电脑）和互联网连接。学者和学生将受益于与该领域前沿同事的互动和指导。以往座谈会的录像档案将成为教学和研究方法论资源的参考图书馆。在学术界以外工作的人将有机会从新的研究中学习，作为他们继续教育的一部分，并将他们的实践知识贡献给学术交流。除了研讨会促进的合作研究和奖学金的直接利益外，该项目还解决了未来美国经济增长和技术进步的迫切需求。这个项目将有助于扩大社会和经济数据分析方面的专家群体，这些数据对美国经济未来的健康发展至关重要。该项目将为工业界的学生和数据科学家提供免费资源，以扩展他们的定量技能，使他们有机会与学术界密切互动并学习先进技术。

This project develops, organizes, and produces a weekly interactive online seminar on the use of quantitative and statistical analysis in social research, particularly political science. This project will leverage off-the-shelf, commercially-proven technology to bring methodologists in political science and allied fields into interactive conversation with scholars, students, policy makers, and industry practitioners all over the world without travel or venue costs for the participants. The goals of the project are to promote the development and application of new quantitative techniques for data analysis that are applicable to the study of social, behavioral, and economic phenomena, to enable low-cost collaboration and discussion among scholars and professionals around the world who are actively involved in the development and application of quantitative analysis in the social and economic sciences, government, and industry, and to provide a free educational resource for students, practitioners, and policy makers interested in using quantitative analysis and social scientific research design.Participation will be free of charge, requiring only a computing device (smart phone, tablet, or computer) and an internet connection. Scholars and students will benefit from interaction with and instruction from colleagues at the forefront of the field. The archive of videos from past colloquia will form a reference library of methodological resources for teaching and research. People working outside academia will have the opportunity to learn from new research as a part of their continuing education, and to contribute their practical knowledge to the scholarly conversation. In addition to the direct benefits of collaborative research and scholarship promoted by the colloquium, this project addresses an urgent requirement for future U.S. economic growth and technological advancement. This project will help to grow the community of experts in the analysis of social and economic data that is critical to the future health of the American economy. This project will provide a free resource for students and data scientists in industry to expand their quantitative skills, giving them an opportunity to interact closely with the scholarly community and learn advanced techniques.