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Luis Götze joins the group

We welcome Luis Götze to the group! Luis Götze joined the group in July as a Researcher and Teaching Assistant. Currently enrolled in the Mannheim Master in Social Data Science, he brings a unique interdisciplinary background in International Relations and Data Science. His research focuses on the ...

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Interview with Prof. Ratkovic on the results of last fall's hackathon event and the role of AI in science

Last fall Prof. Ratkovic, his colleague Thomas Gschwend and Springer Nature organized a hackathon with 22 international participants to explore how AI can support or facilitate scientific writing. A new article by Jan-Martin Wiarda discusses some of the results as well as perspectives by Prof. ...

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New pre-print article: Results from our AI field experiment are here!

How can AI support or facilitate scientific writing? Last fall Prof. Ratkovic, his colleague Thomas Gschwend and Springer Nature organized a hackathon with 22 international participants to explore this question. The results of the field experiment are now available online as a pre-print ...

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Talk at University:Future Festival

Prof. Ratkovic was a speaker at the University:Future Festival 2025, which took place on May 13 to 15, 2025 in Berlin, Braunschweig, Nürnberg, Graz / Austria, Zurich / Switzerland and online. His talk was titled „Academic Writing: A Field Experiment Testing GPT's Ability to Foster Clarity and ...

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Jacob Chen joins the group

We welcome Jacob Chen to the group! Jacob Chen joined the group as a research assistant in the beginning of May. Currently enrolled in the Mannheim Master in Data Science program, his research focuses on leveraging Large Language Models to enhance the quality of scientific writing. Working ...

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Talk at COMPTEXT 2025

Prof. Ratkovic was a speaker at the 7th ANNUAL COMPTEXT Conference 2025, The Seventh International Interdisciplinary Conference on the Quantitative and Computational Analysis of Text-, Image- and Video-as-Data, which took place on April 24 to 26 in Vienna / Austria. His talk was titled “Using LLMs ...

Street View of Big Ben

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Talk at PolMeth Europe 2025

Prof. Ratkovic was a speaker at the PolMeth Europe 2025, the conference of The Society of Political Methodology, which took place on April 7 and 8 in London / U.K.. His talk was titled “Large Language Models for Statistical Inference: Context Augmentation with Applications to the Two-Sample Problem ...

Kirche in Marseille

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Talk at Aix-Marseille School of Economics

Prof. Ratkovic visited the group of Asst. Prof. Romain Ferrali at the Aix-Marseille School of Economics and gave a talk entitled “Large Language Models for Statistical Inference: Context Augmentation with Applications to the Two-Sample Problem, Regression, and Concordance”. The abstract reads: Text ...

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Prof. Kosuke Imai visits the Chair

Prof. Kosuke Imai will be visiting the Chair of Social Data Science on March 4. He is Professor in the Department of Government and the Department of Statistics at Harvard University. He is also an affiliate of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science. Before moving to Harvard in 2018, Imai ...

Gruppenbild im Stil eines historischen Familienfotos, von links nach rechts: Matthew Robertson, Marc Ratkovic, Mitchell Ewald

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Matthew Robertson and Mitchell Ewald join the group

With the start of the spring term we welcome two new researchers to our group! Dr. Matthew Robertson is joining us as a Post-Doctoral researcher. Matthew received his PhD in Political Science from the Australian National University under Benjamin Goldsmith, where his research focused on ...