Alexey Rotmistrov

The Russian Science Foundation announced the results of its 2019 competitions for support from the Presidential Research Project Programme. One competition was for grants in support of research initiatives by early career researchers, and another was in support of research conducted by research groups headed by early career scholars.

Members of the RSG will organize two sessions at the international methodological conference of the European Survey Research Association, which will be held in the capital of Croatia in July 2019.

Regular seminar of RSG was held on 24th July during the summer holidays. It was devoted to discussion about following directions of researches. The members of the group represented the first results of their investigations and discussed potential and limitations of parsing methods.

Svetlana Zhuchkova has presented her graduation paper on the RSG seminar on 5th June. The paper was based on the comparison of three methods of searching for multivariate associations of categorical variables. The comparison was conducted in the paradigm of Data Mining.

Lubsana Tsydenzhapova, the student of the educational program “Applied Methods of Social Analysis of Markets”, continued a series of seminars on pre-defense of graduation master thesis. The student shared her experience of finding multivariate associations in the study of paternalistic attitudes in Post-socialist and Western European countries.

During the RSG open seminar, there was a pre-defense of the master thesis of Zaruhi Simonyan, the student of the HSE master program 'Applied Methods of Social Analysis of Markets', whose scientific supervisor is Alexey Rotmistrov.

Maria Rodionova and Tamara Mkhitaryan presented the results of the search and application of interaction effects in their reports at the XII Russian Scientific Conference on the Remembrance of Yuri Levada. While on the XIX April Conference Svetlana Zhuchkova and Alexey Rotmistrov told about the research of handling missing data with CHAID.

Despite the upcoming May holidays, the seminar of the RSG, held on April 30, wasn't left without the attention of listeners. Anastasia Rodygina, invited third-year student of the Sociology Department of Faculty of Social Science, lectured about her experience of sites parsing in Python.

On Tuesday, the 17th of April, a new open seminar of the Research and Study Group (RSG) was held. On the meeting, Svetlana Zhuchkova presented the results of the research devoted to the usage of missing values in CHAID method. This report was previously successfully received by the public at the 19th April International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development.

The Roundtable, which was held on the 11th of April during the ХIХ April International Academic Conference on economic and social development, was devoted to the discussion on the role of women in the modern technological future.

The new meeting of the Research and Study Group (RSG) was held on the 3rd of April. The main speaker was the head of the RSG Alexey Rotmistrov, who dedicated the report to the particularities of Data Mining paradigm in sociology. During the report, the topic of Russian nationalists was also discussed.

On 13^th of March Alexey Rotmistrov, the Head of Research & Study Group, made a speech as a discussant to the report «Possibilities and issues of working with Big Data: investigation on tenders for exchange of remote work» under the series of seminars «Sociology of Markets» organized by HSE Laboratory for Studies in Economic sociology (LSES).

On the 20th of March Mkhitaryan Tamara introduced to members of the Research and Study Group (RSG) and other listeners results of applying the regression with interaction effects. Tamara`s report was based on her own database dedicated to the choice of STEM-disciplines by schoolchildren. After the report, Olga Savinskaya, Tamara`s scientific adviser, thanked her student for the active work on the topic and told listeners about the integration of research results into the work of the Department Social Protection of the population.

On the 6th of March, the first member of our Research and Study Group (RSG) Maria Rodionova made her own report at an open seminar. Maria introduced the other participants of the group and external listeners to results of creating a regression model with interaction effects on her own database. Application of the developed algorithm made the R squared more than three times higher, however, without including new variables.

On February 12, the deputy head of the RSG Svetlana Zhuchkova and the head of RSG Alexey Rotmistrov were invited at the meeting of winners of Student Research Paper Competition (SRPC) with the rector of HSE Yaroslav Kuzminov. After the discussion between Mr. Kuzminov and students, an award ceremony was held. Svetlana was among the winners. Her paper was written under the guidance of Alexey Rotmistrov.

The second meeting of our Research and Study Group (RSG) took place on the 6th of February and was dedicated to log-linear analysis and its application for searching interaction effects in social data. The meeting was held under the leadership of Svetlana Zhuchkova, the deputy head of the RSG, and lasted for an hour and a half. The very next day, on the 7th of February, at the initiative of the head of the group Alexey Rotmistrov there was held an additional closed seminar which gave an opportunity for participants to repeat previously studied material. Also, there were discussed the first results of the individual project, presented by Maria Rodionova.

The first meeting of the Research and Study Group (RSG) called «Adaptation of Methods for Interaction Detection in Social Data» was held on the 23rd of January and marked with two events. The meeting was opened by the introductory speech of the head of RSG Alexey Rotmistrov and continued with the discussion of participants` individual research projects.