Python Tutorials
A series of tutorials introducing Python syntax data types, control structures, functions, and classes.
Pandas Tutorials
A series of tutorials introducing the Python Pandas module and key topics of data wrangling.
Networks and Organizations
A graduate-level course introducing the major theoretical traditions in organization theory and their integration with network perspectives.
Mechanics of Social Theory
A graduate-level course introducing the key elements of social theories and the organization of academic writing including research proposals, prospectuses, dissertations and research articles.
Patronage and Clientelism
A graduate-level course surveying neopatrimonialism, clientelism, and crony capitalism in Asian democracies.
Computational Social Science
A course surveying three computational methods used in social science: text analysis, machine learning, and social network analysis. Includes online tutorials.
Text Analysis
A course surveying text preprocessing and major methods of text analysis including keyword analysis, topic modeling, sentiment analysis, word-embeddings document classfification, and semantic networks. Online tutorials are included.
Data Engineering and Analysis
A course introducing the the full stack of tools in the data science
toolkit, from data collection to analysis, but with special emphasis on data wrangling.
Asia-Pacific Regional Development
A graduate-level course surveying the four main subfields within the IDAS program: International Relations, Public Governance, Political Economy, Society and Culture.
Survey of Social Science Methods
A graduate-level course surveying four major social science methodologies: experiments, statistical analysis of observed data, historical comparative analysis, ethnography.
Sociology of Culture
A graduate-level course exploring culture from the sociological perspectives of social structure, cultural production, cultural consumption, power and identity.
Train Researchers in Data Science
Search our training materials on data science, social science methodology, theory, and career prep.
Build Integrated Databases
We build integrated databases linking org trees, org rosters, social network data and more. From these, we query curated datasets for analysis.
Unveil Power in Asian Politics
We research political organization in Asia’s democratic and autocratic polities. Check out our research on Taiwan, South Korea, North Korea, and Kazakhstan.
Advance Nets & Orgs Paradigm
We operationalize the “Networks and Organizations” paradigm for empirical research and use this framework to advance theories of political organization.