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Research Data and Methods Workshop Series

Workshop series by CRC 1252 - Prominence in Language at the University of Cologne.

Workshops on research methodology, data management, and academic practices for graduate students, postdocs, and researchers.

Available Workshops

  1. Good Academic Practice (7 May 2025) - Academic integrity, research ethics, and responsible conduct
  2. Research Data Management (21 May 2025) - Organizing, storing, and preserving research data
  3. Ethics Approval (4 June 2025) - Ethics approval process and human subjects research requirements
  4. Literature Management (18 June 2025) - Reference management tools (Zotero) and citation techniques
  5. Annotation & Corpus Tools (2 July 2025) - Tools for corpus linguistics and text annotation
  6. Preregistration (16 July 2025) - Preregistering research studies for transparency and reproducibility
  7. Coding in R - Basics (17 September 2025) - Introduction to R programming for research applications
  8. Online Experiments (1 October 2025) - Designing and implementing online experiments
  9. Archiving Session (15 October 2025) - Long-term data preservation, standards, and UoC repository usage
  10. Coding in Python/VSCode and LLMs (29 October 2025) - Python setup, core libraries, Git integration, and LLM-assisted coding
  11. Bayesian Regression Models (12 November 2025) - Bayesian regression in R with priors, checking, and interpretation
  12. Computational Reproducibility using R (26 November 2025) - Reproducible workflows with R Markdown/Quarto, renv, and pipelines
  13. Bayesian Model Comparison Using Cross-Validation (17 December 2025) - Comparing Bayesian models using cross-validation techniques
  14. Bayesian Hypothesis Testing Using ROPE (7 January 2026) - Bayesian hypothesis testing with the Region of Practical Equivalence (ROPE)
  15. Bayes Factor (21 January 2026) - Bayes Factors for model selection and hypothesis testing
  16. Taking Care of Your Data: From Backups to Publication (4 February 2026) - Data lifecycle, from backups to publishing
  17. Shiny: Creating Dynamic Web Apps from Data (18 February 2026) - An introduction to creating interactive web applications from your data using Shiny
  18. Sample Size and Power Analysis (4 March 2026) - Principles of sample size calculation and power analysis
  19. Let's Rant: Open Debugging (1 April 2026) - An interactive and open session on debugging strategies and best practices
  20. Advanced R: Working with Data Frames (15 April 2026) - Dive deep into advanced data manipulation techniques with R's data frames

View the complete workshop catalog for detailed information about each session.

Current schedule: See Winter 2025-26 schedule for dates and registration.

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CRC 1252 Retreat Resources

Materials from our July 2025 Retreat on Large Language Models and AI-assisted research methods.

Workshop presentations from structured group discussions on NLP using Large Language Models:

  • Prompt Engineering - Nils Reiter
  • Corpus Generation - Job Schepens
  • Automatic Annotation - Ziyue Liu
  • LLM-Assisted Coding - Philip Georgis
  • Plenary Session - Job Schepens & Nils Reiter

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Additional Information

CRC 1252 "Prominence in Language" research initiative, University of Cologne.