Courses

General data analysis

• Data Analysis for Social Science, Elena Llaudet.
• Modern Regression, Cosma Shalizi.
• Data Analysis and Politics, Matthew Blackwell and colleagues.
• Quantitative Social Science Methods I, Gary King and colleagues; video lectures.
• Regression analysis with Stata, Richard Williams.
• Tidy Modeling with R, Max Kuhn and Julia Silge.
• Modern Statistics for Modern Biology, Susan Holmes and Wolfgang Huber.
• Computational Text Analysis, Christopher Barrie.
• Improving Your Statistical Inferences, Daniël Lakens.
• Linear Regression: A Visual Introduction, Jared Wilber.
• Sociology Statistics Reading Group, Brandon Stewart.
• Advanced Social Statistics, Brandon Stewart.
• Statistics 110: Probability, Joe Blitzstein.
• An Introduction to Political and Social Data Analysis Using R, Thomas Holbrook.
• Awesome Computational Social Science, a community-maintained collection.

Causal inference

• Causal Inference for the Brave and True.

Structural equation modelling

• Lavaan e-learning, Kyle Lang. Topics include factor analysis, multiple groups, mediation, moderation, missing data, and model selection.

Multilevel modelling

• Introduction to Multilevel Modelling, Mairead Shaw and Jessica Flake.
• Multilevel modelling online course, University of Bristol Centre for Multilevel Modelling, with R, Stata, and MLwiN materials.

Survival and event-history analysis

• Survival Analysis in R, Emily Zabor.
• Survival Analysis in R and Stata, Germán Rodríguez.
• Interaction effects in Cox regression, Paul Dickman.

Bayesian statistics

• Bayesian Statistics, Andrew Heiss and Meng Ye.

Machine learning

• CS229: Machine Learning, Stanford University.
• Machine Learning and Causal Inference, Brigham Frandsen.
• Learning from Data, Yaser Abu-Mostafa.

Large language models

• Natural-language-processing

Data visualisation

• Data Visualization Using R for Researchers Who Do Not Use R, Emily Nordmann and colleagues.
• Visualising Data.

Sequence analysis

• Sequence Analysis Association resources.

Summer schools and syllabi

• Utrecht Summer School.
• MethodsNET.
• GESIS Training.
• Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science.
• UC Berkeley Sociology syllabi.
• APSA Migration and Citizenship syllabus bank.

Interviews

• The Journeys of Scholars.

Links were reviewed in September 2026.