Effective Workflows for Collaboration: How to Use Github, Zotero, Quarto and RStudio to Enhance Collaborative Research

Schedule: 20-21 August, 2025 (09.30-15.30 Jakarta Time)

About

Reproducible workflows are the gold standard for effective, efficient, and open research. Yet using the most useful tools to do reproducible research involves a learning curve. Once mastered, your research administration is made is not only easier but also less error-prone, and you’ll be able to collaborate effectively within research teams. This class gets you over the initial learning curve.

We will look at data backup with cloud storage, version control, and collaboration with GitHub, referencing with Zotero, combining data, analysis, and writing with Quarto markdown, and integrating the whole thing within an R Studio Project structure. These tools can form the basis of doing it right and learning it once. While familiarity with using R would be an advantage, the skills taught in the workshop are suitable for beginners. The material is mostly aimed at quantitative work, but qualitative and mixed-methods scholars would benefit from some of the tools.

Instructor

Harry Dienes

Affiliation: Cornell University

Harry Dienes is a PhD Candidate at Cornell University, interested in electoral accountability and the politics of bureaucracy. He thinks about how states can become better at delivering services, how and why citizens make demands on government, and the political incentives that underpin those dynamics. He is conducting a number of experimental studies, including two survey experiments in Indonesia, and lab-in-the field and field experiments in Ethiopia. He hopes to help you develop proficiency in designing and implementing your own survey experiments