Events under 'Other Sponsor'

CTQA Risk-Based Audit Plan and Self-Assessment Review

Join NRP for a hybrid session with Jamie Kauwell, Emily Jones, and Bree Williams from the CTQA office as they identify high risk areas to be audited by CTQA as part of the Risk-Based Audit Plan and review the potential benefits of using the available Self-Assessments.

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This short course will introduce you to the major ideas behind structural equation modeling (SEM) and equip you with the knowledge necessary to get started on your own analysis using this method. SEM is a valuable tool beyond traditional regression models due to its flexibility, as it allows researchers to test more complex relationships among variables and to account for measurement error in analysis.

Participants should be familiar...

They are Large, but should they be in Charge? Exploring the Possibility and Implausibility of Large Language Models in Social Science Research

Take a glance through recent news or social media and you would be hard-pressed not to see mentions of chatbots and artificial intelligence (AI) methods aimed at generating text, images and other content. Recent work by Eloundou and colleagues (2023) explored the potential impact of these type...

This one-day course will be offered via Zoom only. Attendance is required as it will not be recorded.

Course Summary:
Statistical machine learning is an interdisciplinary research area which is closely related to statistics, computer sciences, engineering, and bioinformatics. Many statistical machine learning techniques and algorithms have proven to be very useful for various scientific areas. This course will cover a number of unsu...

Data Visualization for Social Science Research

This course introduces modern visual data exploration and communication methods to social scientists with limited prior experience. Students will learn to effectively present data to diverse audiences across multiple formats. The course utilizes the R programming language, RStudio development environment, and the tidyverse suite of R packages—with particular emphasis on ggplot2—for d...

Accelerate your ideas through customer discovery and market opportunity validation!

KickStart Venture Services is recruiting community startups as well as faculty, post-doctoral fellows, graduate students, and undergraduate students with innovations and an interest in commercialization to participate in their virtual NSF I-Corps program. They will teach you the principles of customer discovery to help you better understand the marke...

They are Large, but should they be in Charge? Exploring the Possibility and Implausibility of Large Language Models in Social Science Research

Take a glance through recent news or social media and you would be hard-pressed not to see mentions of chatbots and artificial intelligence (AI) methods aimed at generating text, images and other content. Recent work by Eloundou and colleagues (2023) explored the potential impact of these type...

This all-day, in-person event will have various presentations, breakout sessions, and panel discussions. NRP members will also have an opportunity to have a professional headshot taken (if you’re on the NRP listserv, then you are a NRP member—keep an eye on the NRP listserv for more information closer to May). Join NRP at nrp.tracs.unc.edu/communication/.

Learn more about the conference and explore the full agenda at nrp.tracs.un...