Overview
Social Science Research Council (SSRC) Labs is an aggregation of pedagogical resources created in collaboration with various partners in the digital humanities, libraries, and computational social sciences. Currently Labs hosts two sets of self-directed learning modules, intended to be worked through by interested individuals or groups, or used by instructors for classroom work.
Trainings
Introductory lessons for building foundational skills in 21st century research
Best practices, methodologies, and general strategies for managing qualitative data such as text, audio, video, and images
Open source teaching and learning materials in computational social science, with topics spanning text as data, website scraping, digital field experiments, non-probability sampling, mass collaboration, and ethics. SSRC is a proud sponsor of SICSS.
Resources
A project converting the static, difficult-to-research Congressional Record into a well-organized, easy-to-query database linking floor speeches and committee hearing minutes to data describing Members of Congress and their constituencies.
An ongoing aggregation of accessible datasets for use in social media research, particularly around politics, elections, and Covid-19