Templates and Dynamic Documents

Templates

LyX for Professional Research Papers and Presentations ^{2 mins} Get Started With Our LaTeX Thesis Template ^{1 mins} Get Started With Our Bookdown Thesis Template ^{2 mins} Cheatsheet for LaTeX Math Commands ^{10 mins}

Write Your First LaTeX Document in 15 Minutes

Part 1: The Fine Art of Typesetting ^{3 mins} Part 2: Setup LaTeX ^{2 mins} Part 3: Your First Article ^{7 mins} Part 4: Add a Bibliography ^{3 mins} Part 5: Useful Tips ^{3 mins}

Dynamic Reports

Citation Management within Rmarkdown ^{6 mins} Cross-Referencing within Rmarkdown ^{6 mins} Handling Figures in Rmarkdown ^{6 mins} Automate Converting Regression Results to LaTeX Equations in Rmarkdown ^{5 mins}

Organizing your Research

Note Taking

Note Taking Systems in Academia ^{12 mins}

Writing an academic paper

Citations and References

Build and Maintain a Reference List ^{6 mins} Cite Efficiently in Your Academic Paper ^{5 mins}

Data and Coding Related

Coding, Workflow, and Data Management in a Research Project/Thesis ^{5 mins}

Literature Review

Searching for Literature on the Web ^{3 mins}

Writing Process

Master Thesis Resource Bundle ^{1 mins} Prepare for your Master Thesis ^{8 mins} Chapter Structure of a Thesis or Academic Paper ^{13 mins} Mastering Academic Writing ^{6 mins}

Version Control and Repository Management

Advanced Git

Restoring Timestamps in Git Repositories ^{3 mins} Exclude Files from Versioning ^{2 mins} Git Branching Strategies ^{9 mins} Getting started with Tilburg's GitLab ^{7 mins} Best Practices for Naming Git Branches ^{3 mins} Best Practices for Git Commits ^{2 mins} Working with Large Files on GitHub ^{5 mins} Remove Sensitive or Large Files From Your Repository ^{2 mins}

Repository Lifecycle

Make Your GitHub Repository Citable using DOIs ^{1 mins} Archiving Repositories When They Are Done ^{2 mins} Export Repositories With GitHub Releases ^{2 mins}

Getting Started with Git and Github

Set up Git and GitHub ^{4 mins} Get Started With Using Git and GitHub ^{11 mins} The Most Important Git Commands You Should Know ^{4 mins} The GitHub Workflow ^{8 mins} Manage Your Projects Using the GitHub Project Board ^{2 mins} Best Practices for GitHub Issues Management ^{11 mins}

Replicability and Environment Management

Cloud Computing

HPC TiU High-performance Computing ^{3 mins} Snellius: The Dutch National Supercomputer ^{2 mins} Cloud Computing with SURFsara's LISA Cluster ^{1 mins} Cloud Computing with SURFsara's Cartesius Cluster ^{1 mins} Getting Started with SURF Research Cloud (SRC) ^{6 mins} Setting Up a New Workspace, Configuring Git and Adding Research Drive on Research Cloud ^{4 mins} Set up the AWS Client ^{1 mins} Run RStudio on AWS using Docker ^{6 mins} Use Google Colab to Run Python in the Cloud ^{3 mins} Configure a VM with GPUs in Google Cloud ^{9 mins} Combine GitHub and Google Colab for Collaborative Development ^{7 mins} Monitor and solve memory constraints in your computational environment ^{6 mins}

Running Computations Remotely

Part 1: Cloud Computing ^{2 mins} Part 2: Launch Instance ^{2 mins} Running Computations Remotely ^{3 mins} Part 4: Move Files ^{1 mins} Part 5: Run Scripts ^{2 mins} Part 6: Terminate Instance ^{1 mins}

Package Management

Package Management for R: renv ^{5 mins} Manage your R Packages with Packrat ^{6 mins} How to Automatically Install R Packages Used in a Project ^{3 mins}

Docker

Set up Docker ^{6 mins} Import and run a project environment with Docker on Google Cloud ^{13 mins} Export a Python Environment with Docker and Share It Through Docker Hub ^{13 mins}

Automation Tools

Deployment

Configure a Self-hosted runner for GitHub Actions workflows ^{10 mins} Enhance Reproducibility and Automation with GitHub Actions ^{6 mins} Implement a GitHub Actions workflow for code formatting and testing ^{7 mins}

Practicing Pipeline Automation using Make

Part 1: Pipeline Automation Overview ^{3 mins} Part 2: Verify Software Setup ^{1 mins} Part 3: Download the Template ^{2 mins} Part 4: Running the Workflow ^{1 mins} Part 5: Inspecting the Data-preparation Pipeline ^{1 mins} Part 6: Dry-run of Make and First Modifications ^{4 mins} Part 7: More Modifications ^{2 mins} Part 8: Extending the Analysis ^{1 mins} Part 9: Wrap-Up ^{2 mins}

Inside AirBnB - Workflow Walkthrough

Part 1: Airbnb Workflow Overview ^{1 mins} Part 2: Loading the Data ^{4 mins} Part 3: Transforming the Data ^{3 mins} Part 4: Exporting the Data ^{2 mins} Part 5: Automating Workflows ^{2 mins} Part 6: Conclusion ^{2 mins}

Task Automation

Error Handling in Stata Workflows Using R ^{4 mins} Schedule Recurring Tasks (e.g., by day, hour) ^{6 mins}

Make and Makefiles

Use Makefiles to Manage, Automate, and Reproduce Projects ^{5 mins} Set up Make ^{4 mins} Debugging Makefiles With Remake ^{7 mins} Set up Snakemake ^{2 mins}

Workflows

Principles of Project Setup and Workflow Management

Part 1: Project Setup Overview ^{5 mins} Part 2: Pipelines and Project Components ^{9 mins} Part 3: Data Management and Directory Structure ^{14 mins} Part 4: Automating your Pipeline ^{6 mins} Part 5: Documenting Datasets ^{1 mins} Part 6: Documenting Source Code and Pipeline Workflows ^{3 mins} Part 7: Part Versioning using Git and GitHub ^{9 mins} Part 8: Collaborating using GitHub ^{7 mins} Part 9: Checklist to Audit Data- and Computation-intensive Projects ^{4 mins}

Starting a New Project

Starting Up a New Empirical Research Project ^{6 mins} Learn About the Various Ways to Setup a Research Infrastructure ^{6 mins}

Auditing Existing Projects

Use this Checklist to Improve Your Project's Structure and Efficiency ^{4 mins}

Using Artificial Intelligence

Enhance your Research Using ChatGPT Models

Use ChatGPT for your research! ^{5 mins} GitHub Copilot in RStudio and VS Code ^{16 mins}

Transcription and Command Line Tools

Making transcriptions using OpenAI's Whisper ^{4 mins}

Causal Inference

Regression Discontinuity Designs (RDD)

Sharp RD Designs ^{7 mins} Regression Discontinuity Plots ^{9 mins} Continuity-Based Approach ^{6 mins} Fuzzy RD Designs ^{8 mins} Fuzzy RDD in Practice ^{4 mins} Local Randomization Approach ^{10 mins} Validation and Falsification Analysis for RDD ^{11 mins} RDD with Discrete Running Variables ^{13 mins} Regression Discontinuity in Time (RDiT) ^{15 mins}

Difference in Difference

An Introduction to Difference-in-Difference Analysis ^{8 mins} Difference-in-Difference as a Regression ^{9 mins} Staggered Difference-in-Difference Estimation ^{10 mins} Testing for Pre-trends in DiD and Event Studies ^{14 mins} Impact evaluation: RD vs DID ^{6 mins} Handling Parallel Trends Violations with `HonestDiD` in R ^{10 mins}

Instrumental Variables

Intro to IV Estimation ^{7 mins} The Shift-Share Instrumental Variable ^{7 mins}

Matching

An Introduction to (Exact) Matching ^{10 mins} Propensity Score Matching: A Method for Approximate Matching ^{9 mins}

Panel Data

Event Studies for Causal Inference ^{10 mins} An Introduction to Panel Data ^{13 mins} The Fixed Effects Model (Within Estimator) ^{6 mins} Fixed-Effects Estimation in R With the `fixest` Package ^{9 mins} The Pooled OLS Model ^{3 mins} The First-Difference Estimator ^{4 mins} The Between Estimator ^{2 mins} The Random Effects Model ^{8 mins} Dynamic Panel Data Estimation with System-GMM ^{9 mins}

Synthetic Control

Synthetic Control Method without Exogenous Variables ^{11 mins} Introduction to Synthetic Control Methods ^{11 mins} Synthetic Control for Impact Evaluation ^{5 mins}

Regression Analysis

Linear Regression

Run a Regression Analysis ^{4 mins} Interaction Terms ^{17 mins} Easy Standard Error Adjustment with `estimatr` ^{5 mins} Compute Marginal Effects ^{7 mins} Doing Calculations with Regression Coefficients Using deltaMethod ^{4 mins} Fixed Effects Regression Assumptions ^{5 mins} Mediation Analysis Tutorial in R ^{15 mins} Interpreting Regression Models in R ^{12 mins} Understanding Linear Regression Summary Output in R ^{10 mins} Survival Analysis in R ^{12 mins}

Reporting

Evaluate Model Assumptions ^{3 mins}

Machine Learning and Predictive Modeling

Machine Learning 101

In-depth Introduction to Unsupervised Machine Learning ^{17 mins} Get Introduced to Machine Learning ^{7 mins} In-depth Introduction to Supervised Machine Learning ^{13 mins} Introduction to Deep Learning ^{11 mins} In-depth Introduction to Machine Learning and R ^{1 mins}

Supervised Machine Learning

Support Vector Machines in Python ^{11 mins} Introduction to Random Forests in Python ^{11 mins} Extreme gradient boosting with XGBoost in R ^{15 mins} Loss Functions and Cost functions in Machine Learning ^{9 mins} Extreme Gradient Boosting with XGBoost in Python ^{5 mins} Optimization in Machine Learning ^{7 mins} Mitigating Overfitting in Decision Trees ^{11 mins} Classification for Prediction in Python ^{8 mins} Linear Regression for Prediction in Python ^{8 mins} Detecting Overfitting with K-Fold Cross-Validation ^{6 mins}

Tests

Non-parametric Tests

Understanding the binomial test ^{8 mins} Chi-Squared Test ^{5 mins} Wilcoxon test ^{8 mins}

Testing OLS Assumptions

Evaluate Model Assumptions of an OLS Regression in R ^{3 mins} Testing and Correcting for Heteroskedasticity ^{16 mins} Testing for Serial Correlation ^{9 mins} Statistical Power ^{11 mins}

Developing Coding Skills

Bash

Learn Bash Commands ^{5 mins} Set up Command Line Tools ^{4 mins} Making Path Settings Permanent ^{3 mins} Bring AI to your command line/terminal ^{7 mins}

Coding Practices

Principles for Good Coding ^{3 mins} Parallel Computing in R ^{7 mins}

Software Installation

Introduction

Introduction to Causal Inference ^{5 mins}

IDE's

Comparing Text Editors ^{6 mins} Set up Visual Studio Code ^{4 mins} Software Setup Overview ^{2 mins} Other Programming Languages ^{1 mins}

Python

Set up Python ^{4 mins} Python Coding Style Guidelines ^{5 mins} Introduction to Coding With Python ^{12 mins} Install Python Packages ^{2 mins} Configuring Python for Web Scraping ^{5 mins} Configure Python Virtual Environments ^{5 mins}

MATLAB

Set up Julia ^{1 mins} Set up MATLAB ^{1 mins}

Perl

Set up Perl ^{2 mins}

R & RStudio

Set up R and RStudio ^{6 mins} Get Started With R ^{5 mins} R Coding Style Guidelines ^{5 mins}

Document Creation

Set up LaTeX ^{3 mins} Set up TeXmacs ^{2 mins} Set up Pandoc ^{3 mins} Set up Sublime Text ^{3 mins} Set up Quarto ^{2 mins}

Stata

Set up Stata ^{3 mins} Getting started with Stata ^{2 mins} Stata Coding Style Guidelines ^{5 mins} Install Stata Packages ^{2 mins}

Project Management and Team Sciences

Contribute to Tilburg Science Hub

Your Building Block Title (50-70 characters + most important keyword must be in the title atleast once) ^{3 mins} Your building block title (50-70 characters + most important keyword must be in the title atleast once) ^{2 mins} Style and Writing Guide ^{15 mins} Ways of contributing to Tilburg Science Hub ^{3 mins} Contribute using Pull Requests ^{6 mins} Add yourself as a Contributor ^{3 mins} Code of Conduct ^{2 mins} Adding Pages to Home Page Cards ^{2 mins}

Project Management on GitHub

Document and Share your Data using GitHub ^{5 mins} Use Overleaf to Collaborate on Research Papers ^{2 mins} Share Large Temporary Files ^{4 mins} Use Software Environments to Ensure Replicability ^{7 mins} Set up TeamViewer ^{2 mins} Safely Store Your Credentials By Configuring Environment Variables ^{4 mins}

Big Team Science

Bring Open Science Practices to your Research Group ^{1 mins} How to Prepare for (and Follow-up On) Scrum Meetings ^{2 mins} Linux file permissions ^{4 mins} Professionalize your Team Work Using Scrum ^{6 mins}

Engage in open source projects

Contribute to Open Source Projects ^{5 mins}

Share your Work

Create Your Own Website in 15 Minutes

Part 1: Hugo Website Overview ^{3 mins} Part 2: Get Hugo ^{2 mins} Part 3: Pick a Theme ^{3 mins} Part 4: Add Some Content ^{3 mins} Part 5: Go Live! ^{3 mins}

Content Creation for Research

Document New Data ^{11 mins} README Best Practices ^{5 mins} Pandoc: An Easy Document Converter ^{8 mins} Publish Ebooks and Interactive Articles Directly From R ^{2 mins} Automating Dynamic Reports With Quarto ^{6 mins} Create Your First Interactive Document With Quarto ^{9 mins} Build and Publish a Website With Quarto ^{6 mins}

Shoot Educational Videos

Part 1: What Is an Educational Video? ^{1 mins} Part 2: Buying Equipment for Educational Videos ^{21 mins} Part 3: Shooting Educational Videos ^{13 mins}

Hugo Tutorial

(Part 1) Hugo Tutorial: Start Here ^{1 mins} (Part 2) Install Hugo Extended on Windows using winget ^{2 mins} (Part 2) Install Hugo Extended on Linux using snap ^{2 mins} (Part 3) Using Hugo: Create and Deploy a Static Site ^{5 mins} (Part 4) Using Hugo: Add Content to Your Static Site ^{6 mins}

Loading and Importing Data

Import Large Datasets

Handle Large Datasets In Python ^{5 mins} Import Large Datasets Into R ^{10 mins} Practical Example with Dask ^{7 mins}

Getting Started

Data Preparation and Workflow Management ^{1 mins} SPSS Data in R ^{11 mins}

Manipulating and Cleaning Data

Numerical Data

Clean Numeric Data Scraped From Social Media ^{1 mins} Pandas for Data Manipulation in Python ^{16 mins}

Textual Data

Learn Regular Expressions ^{12 mins} Text Pre-processing in Python ^{11 mins} Text Pre-processing in R ^{9 mins}

Data Storage

Long Term Archiving

Choose a Data Repository for Long-Term Storage ^{5 mins}

Commercial Cloud

Use AWS S3 Buckets ^{5 mins} Handle storage within your Google Cloud instance ^{5 mins} Download Data Programmatically ^{8 mins}

Surf Research Cloud

Set up SURF Research Drive to Store Data ^{6 mins}

Data Collection

Databases

From CSV to SQL Databases: Matching Data Solutions to Your Needs ^{4 mins} SQLite in R for Research Data Storage ^{3 mins} Online Data Collection and Management ^{1 mins} Online Data Sources for Economists ^{2 mins}

API's

Extract Data From APIs ^{5 mins} Read & Write Data From APIs ^{2 mins}

Web Scraping

Extract Data Using the YouTube API ^{5 mins} Avoid Getting Blocked While Scraping ^{2 mins} Web Scraping and API Mining ^{4 mins} Scrape Dynamic Websites ^{4 mins} Scrape Static Websites ^{5 mins} Assess what Data is Available ^{5 mins} Monitor and Safeguard Your Data Quality ^{4 mins} Safeguard Legal Compliance When Scraping ^{6 mins} Calculate Sample Sizes for Web Scrapers ^{2 mins}

Surveys

Creating Qualtrics Surveys and Exporting Data to R and Python ^{6 mins}

Data Visualization

Regression Results

Generate a coefficient plot in R with the `modelplot` function ^{8 mins} Generate regression tables in R with the `modelsummary` package ^{39 mins} Forest Plot Generation in R ^{6 mins}

Personalized Cookies

Topics

Research Skills & Theses