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By Emily Kalah Gade, John Wilkerson, and Anne Washington

“Big data” will transform social science research. By big data, we primarily mean datasets that are so large that they cannot be analyzed...

By Justin Esarey

The Political Methodologist is still in a transitional period, with the search for a new editorial team (and possibly a new publication structure) still ongoing. But 2016 was a...

By Gaurav Sood and Andrew Guess

Unlike the natural sciences, there are few true zeros in the social sciences (p. 960, Gelman, 2011). All sorts of variables are often weakly related to each other...

By Benjamin Goldsmith

The first Joint Quantitative Political Science Conference for Asia and Australasia was held from January 9^th to 11^th at the University of Sydney, Australia. This combined...

By Justin Esarey

This Friday, November 18 at noon Eastern time, we will host a panel discussion with Women Also Know Stuff (Emily Beaulieu, Amber Boydstun, Yanna Krupnikov, Melissa Michelson...

By Justin Esarey

This Friday, November 11th at noon Eastern time, the International Methods Colloquium will host a presentation by Pete Mohanty of Stanford University. Pete’s presentation is...

By Justin Esarey

This Friday, November 4th at noon Eastern time, the International Methods Colloquium will host a presentation by Marc Ratkovic of Princeton University. Marc’s presentation is...

By Justin Esarey

This Friday, October 28th at noon Eastern time, the International Methods Colloquium will host a presentation by Jacob Montgomery of Washington University in St. Louis...

By Justin Esarey

This Friday, October 21st at noon Eastern time, the International Methods Colloquium will host a presentation by Sarah Bouchat of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Sarah’s...

By Justin Esarey

This Friday, October 14th at noon Eastern time, the International Methods Colloquium will inaugurate its Fall 2016 series of talks with a presentation by Andrew Gelman of...