Conferences and Workshops

Demography Daze 2025

Demography Daze returns for 2025! Demography Daze, an annual workshop that brings together Duke and Carolina population scholars, postdocs and students to encourage idea exchange and incentivize collaborative population research will resume this year. DUPRI will host the 11th annual Demography Daze on Friday, September 26 from 1:00PM - 5:00PM in Gross Hall room 330. A reception will follow. Please join us!

Conference Moderators: Hedwig Lee (DUPRI) and Karen Guzzo (CPC)

Making Smart Investments in Early Childhood Education

This presentation provides an overview of how economists think about early childhood care and education (ECE) interventions, including a synthesis of rigorous evidence on program effectiveness at improving children’s and families’ outcomes. The robust research base on Head Start, the federally funded preschool program for children from low-income households, serves as a foundation. The talk focuses on how to use the evidence on ECE program effects to inform policy and practice – how to build on what we know to move beyond the debate, “Does preschool work?” to a broader understanding of what works, for whom, in what settings, and at scale.

Generalized Linear Models in R

DUPRI will be hosting a workshop, Generalized Linear Models in R, on November 24. This 4-hour training will cover the basics of running GLMs in R, including specification and syntax, interpretation and displaying of results, and model checking. We will examine binary, count, and categorical models. Some prior experience using R is recommended.
 
Session Details
Date: Wednesday, November 22
Location: Zoom
9:00 AM – 11:00 AM: Modeling binary outcomes
11:00 AM – 11:10 AM: Break

Working with Big Data, SQL, and Cloud Computing using R

DUPRI will be hosting a virtual workshop, “Working with Big Data, SQL, and Cloud Computing using R,” on February 28. This 2-hour training provides an introduction to working with remote structured databases, performing SQL queries, and accessing and using cloud computing services like Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud Compute Engine. The training will focus specifically on the R programming language. Some prior experience using R is recommended.

Multilevel Modeling in R

DUPRI will be hosting a workshop, Multilevel Modeling in R, on April 25. This 4-hour training will cover the basics of running multilevel models in R, including specification and syntax, interpretation and displaying of results, and model checking and comparison. Some prior experience using R is recommended.
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