Tutorials, Webinars & Sharezone
Free online tutorials, recorded webinars, and session materials
Browse our free online tutorials and recorded webinars on quantitative methods and computational techniques for social scientists — and download slides, code, and materials from our QuantLunch sessions.
Free online tutorials & webinars
Step-by-step guides on data management, reproducible research, and quantitative methods — plus recorded webinars. We warmly invite you to contribute — please contact us if you would like to share your tutorials, tips, or suggestions.
Quantitative Text Analysis in the Age of LLMs — FIRSA Webinar
18 Jun 2026 | Alfredo Hernández Sánchez, Seraphine F. Maerz, Bertrand De Longueville
FIRSA webinar recording bringing together researchers from Vilnius University, University of Melbourne, and the Joint Research Centre to discuss quantitative approaches to text analysis with large language models.
Using LLMs to Create Data Analysis Pipelines for Text-as-Data Research
SICSS Melbourne 2026 | Seraphine F. Maerz
Recorded talk from the Summer Institute in Computational Social Science on building reproducible LLM-powered pipelines for text-as-data research.
Coding texts with LLMs using quallmer
04 Feb 2026 | Seraphine F. Maerz
Introduction to the quallmer package for LLM-based qualitative coding in R — flexible codebooks, structured outputs, and transparent workflows.
How to use quanteda.llm for text analysis in R
03 Jun 2025 | Seraphine F. Maerz
Use the quanteda.llm package for LLM-powered text analysis — summarize, score, and validate large text corpora with OpenAI or Ollama.
How to use an open-source LLM in R for text analysis tasks
27 Jan 2025 | Seraphine F. Maerz
Get started with open-source LLMs for text analysis using Ollama and the rollama package in R — free, private, and locally stored.
How to use GitHub for collaborative RStudio projects
03 Oct 2024 | Seraphine F. Maerz
A minimal 3-step guide to using GitHub for collaborative RStudio projects — share code, data, and work together on research papers.
How to use R Studio with Quarto to write nice papers
04 Aug 2024 | Seraphine F. Maerz
Create beautiful Quarto documents combining code, analysis, and narrative — output to PDF, Word, or HTML with ease.
How to code your own personal website with Quarto
21 Jul 2024 | Seraphine F. Maerz
Build and deploy your own personal website with Quarto and GitHub in less than 30 minutes — no previous experience required.
Session materials
2026
Analysing Qualitative Data with LLMs
31 Mar 2026 | Dr. Seraphine F. Maerz
Quallmer Tutorial
Hands-on: Analyzing Political Speeches with LLMs
Workshop at Griffith
LLM Masterclass | April 2026 (for participants only)
Archive (2024–2025)
Looking for older session materials? Find slides and resources from previous years on our GitHub repository.