MENA Open Data & Evidence Lab
Events & Training

Teaching materials should remain inspectable after the session ends.

The Lab archives slides, notebooks, exercises, answer keys, reading lists, recordings when available, corrections and reproduction state. Attendance or institutional participation is shown only when a verified event record supports it.

Workshop series

Named sessions with materials and an archive state.

Scheduled record

Workshop 001 — Reproducing an Economics Paper from Raw Data

A 90-minute reproducibility session built around reconstruction from raw source material through a documented analytical result.

FORMAT
90 minutes
MATERIALS
Slides
Notebook
Exercise
Answer key
ARCHIVE FIELDS
Recording
Reading list
Attendance
Corrections

Methods Clinics

Short practical sessions tied to the Lab’s standards work.

Handling revised official data

Vintage logic, release timing, replacement values and why “latest available” can be analytically wrong for historical reconstruction.

Building a source/provenance register

Publisher, URL, retrieval time, archived evidence, transformation, source hash and code commit as one chain.

Reproducible economic research in Python/R

Environment capture, deterministic workflows, data contracts, tests and versioned outputs.

Indicator-definition mismatches

How to detect when the same indicator label hides different age bands, denominators, units, methodologies or revisions.

Programme formats above are training architecture, not claims that each session has already been delivered.

Research Seminars

External speakers and collaborators can be hosted under the same archival standard.

Seminar records will appear when a named speaker/session is confirmed.

The page will not manufacture an external-speaker history before there is a public event record.

Archive rule

A completed event record should retain title, date, host/speaker, format, materials, recording state, attendance evidence where publishable, corrections and any post-event reproduction or feedback record.