By Clare Leaver, Owen Ozier, Pieter Serneels, and Andrew Zeitlin This post is also posted on the Development Impact blog. The holidays are upon us. You might like to show off a bit by preparing something special for the ones you love. Why not make a pre-analysis plan this holiday season? You’re…
Review of Stata’s dyndoc
Guest post: Tomas Dvorak is a Professor of Economics at Union College and a former Project TIER fellow. This is a repost. The original post can be found here. As a huge fan of Stata I was super-excited about dynamic markdown documents newly available in the latest Stata 15 release. I played with…
Announcing Open Enrollment for the BITSS MOOC: Transparent and Open Social Science Research
Most of you probably noticed that 2015 marked a turning point for BITSS. It was the year we launched our Social Science Meta-Analysis and Research Transparency (SSMART) Grant Program, the Leamer-Rosenthal Prizes for Open Social Science, and our new website. It was also the year we started focusing on two main objectives…
Open Source Software for Reproducible Social Science
Garret Christensen –BITSS Project Scientist BITSS offers grad student workshops in reproducible research, where we give a hands-on introduction to software that can help make your work more reproducible. A lot of the software is listed on the Software section of our Resources page, but I wanted to create a quick…
Transparency and Openness Promotion Guidelines
By Garret Christensen (BITSS) BITSS is proud to announce the publication of the Transparency and Openness Promotion Guidelines in Science. The Guidelines are a set of standards in eight areas of research publication: Citation Standards Data Transparency Analytic Methods (Code) Transparency Research Materials Transparency Design and Analysis Transparency Preregistration of Sudies Preregistration of…
Emerging Researcher Perspectives: Get it Right the First Time!
Guest post by Olivia D’Aoust, Ph.D. in Economics from Université libre de Bruxelles, and former Fulbright Visiting Ph.D. student at the University of California, Berkeley. As a Fulbright PhD student in development economics from Brussels, my experience this past year on the Berkeley campus has been eye opening. In particular, I discovered…
Tools for Research Transparency: a Preview of Upcoming BITSS Training
By Garret Christensen (BITSS) What are the tools you use to make your research more transparent and reproducible? A lot of my time at BITSS has been spent working on a manual of best practices, and that has required me to familiarize myself with computing tools and resources that make transparent work easier.…
The 10 Things Every Grad Student Should Do
In a recent post on the Data Pub blog, Carly Strasser provides a useful transparency guide for newcomers to the world of empirical research. Below is an adapted version of that post. 1. Learn to code in some language. Any language. Strasser begins her list urging students to learn a programming language. As the limitations of…