After Kevin Didi collects his Master’s in Economics from Convocation Hall on June 5th, he won’t be leaving the University of Toronto just yet. Kevin has accepted a pre-doctoral position with Professor Eva Vivalt working on the Social Science Prediction Platform. The tool, developed by Vivalt and her colleagues, aids in the collection, creation, and record-keeping of research project forecasts based on surveys of those working in the same areas of interest.
It’s a role that represents many different opportunities for Kevin.
“It’s very nice to be at the forefront of this kind of work, especially with Professor Eva, I’ll also be working with researchers at other universities getting surveys put up on our platform,” Kevin said. “But I think the single most important thing is the purpose of the platform, which is we want to give researchers the opportunity to have experts predict what their outcomes are going to be and then that will help them improve their own studies and improve their own results. I think it’s just a new way that the social science should be looking toward in terms of its data collection and how it reports data.” [Read more…]
