Webinar Series of the Sequence Analysis Association
Previous webinars
2024 Autumn Program
There will be about one session each month:
September, Thursday, 19, 4 pm CET
Title: Analyzing Categorical Sequences with the R package ctsfeatures
Speakers:
Ángel López Oriona and José A. Vilar Fernández,
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jocs.2024.102233
Zoom link: https://unige.zoom.us/j/96355670430
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jocs.2024.102233
Zoom link: https://unige.zoom.us/j/96355670430
October, Thursday, 17, 4 pm CET
Subject: Work-in-progress.
Description: The workshop features two work-in-progress applications of sequence analysis. We discuss open questions after each presentation.
Speakers:
Kun Lee, Convergence or continued stratification? Late working lives and retirement trajectories in Germany.
Max Reichert, The critical juncture of childbirth: disentangling the impact of leave policy and level of education in 20 European countries.
Zoom link: https://unige.zoom.us/j/96355670430
Max Reichert, The critical juncture of childbirth: disentangling the impact of leave policy and level of education in 20 European countries.
Zoom link: https://unige.zoom.us/j/96355670430
November, Thursday, 14, 4 pm CET (to be confirmed)
Subject: Methods.
Description: Two recently published methodological papers.
Speakers:
Leonhard Unterlerchner, Back to the Features. Investigating the Relationship Between Educational Pathways and Income Using Sequence Analysis and Feature Extraction and Selection Approach. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/sjs-2023-0021
Raffaella Piccarreta, Identifying and Qualifying Deviant Cases in Clusters of Sequences: The Why and The How. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10680-023-09682-3
Zoom link: https://unige.zoom.us/j/96355670430
Raffaella Piccarreta, Identifying and Qualifying Deviant Cases in Clusters of Sequences: The Why and The How. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10680-023-09682-3
Zoom link: https://unige.zoom.us/j/96355670430
December, Thursday, 12, 4 pm CET
Subject: Work-in-progress.
Description: The workshop features two work-in-progress applications of sequence analysis. We discuss open questions after each presentation.
Speakers:
Claus Hansen, Using sequence analysis in the description and analysis of short-term sickness absence – a longitudinal study.
Han Liu, Power Dynamics in Interracial Dating Relationships.
Zoom link: https://unige.zoom.us/j/96355670430
Han Liu, Power Dynamics in Interracial Dating Relationships.
Zoom link: https://unige.zoom.us/j/96355670430
December, Thursday, 19, 4 pm CET
Subject: Work-in-progress.
Description: The workshop features two work-in-progress applications of sequence analysis. We discuss open questions after each presentation.
Speakers:
Chengming Han, Changed Institution, Changed Work: Economic Reform and Work Sequences Across Cohorts in China.
Yuqi Liang, Sorting or Exiting? Gendered Divergences in Career Paths of Computer Science Graduates in the U.S. and India.
Zoom link: https://unige.zoom.us/j/96355670430
Yuqi Liang, Sorting or Exiting? Gendered Divergences in Career Paths of Computer Science Graduates in the U.S. and India.
Zoom link: https://unige.zoom.us/j/96355670430
January, Thursday, 16, 4 pm CET
Subject: Work-in-progress.
Description: The workshop features two work-in-progress applications of sequence analysis. We discuss open questions after each presentation.
Speakers:
Ricardo Xavier Cevallos Salgado, Social sciences as an investment. Pathways crossing a social scientific training in Swedish higher education.
Jonathan Ahuna, Opening the Black Box of Decision Processes in Mental Health Clinical Supervision.
Zoom link: https://unige.zoom.us/j/96355670430
Jonathan Ahuna, Opening the Black Box of Decision Processes in Mental Health Clinical Supervision.
Zoom link: https://unige.zoom.us/j/96355670430
2024 Spring Program
There will be about one session each month:
January, Thursday, 25, 4 pm CET
Subject: Workshop on Multidomain/Multichannel Sequence Analysis.
Description: The workshop features two work-in-progress applications of sequence analysis. We discuss open questions after each presentation, with a focus on multidomain/multichannel analysis.
Speakers:
Mustafa Firat, Work-family trajectories across Europe: differences between social groups and welfare regimes.
Peter Sun, Life course patterns of productive engagement among rural and urban older adults.
Zoom link: https://unige.zoom.us/j/96355670430
Peter Sun, Life course patterns of productive engagement among rural and urban older adults.
Zoom link: https://unige.zoom.us/j/96355670430
March, Thursday, 14, 4 pm CET
Subject: Workshop on Clustering and complexity measures.
Description: The workshop features two
work-in-progress applications of sequence analysis. We discuss open
questions after each presentation, with a focus on clustering and complexity measures.
work-in-progress applications of sequence analysis. We discuss open
questions after each presentation, with a focus on clustering and complexity measures.
Speakers:
Laura Altweck, The Influence of Life Courses in Young Adulthood on Subjective Well-being: A Cross-European Perspective.
Stefanie Halm, Linking Life Courses: Analyzing the Effects of Partnership, Reproduction, and Housing on Mental and Physical Subjective Health.
Zoom link: https://unige.zoom.us/j/96355670430
Stefanie Halm, Linking Life Courses: Analyzing the Effects of Partnership, Reproduction, and Housing on Mental and Physical Subjective Health.
Zoom link: https://unige.zoom.us/j/96355670430
April, Thursday, 25, 4 pm CET
Subject: Workshop on SA research design.
Description: The workshop features two
work-in-progress applications of sequence analysis. We discuss open
questions after each presentation.
work-in-progress applications of sequence analysis. We discuss open
questions after each presentation.
Speakers:
Dimitris Pavlopoulos & Mauricio Garnier-Villarreal, Mixture Hidden Markov Models (MHMM): a Modelling Alternative.
Kun Lee, Social Stratification of Retirement Trajectories in Germany after Welfare Reforms.
Martin Gädecke, From Planning to Parenthood: an Exploration of Fertility Intentions and Realisation in Life Course using Sequence Analysis.
Zoom link: https://unige.zoom.us/j/96355670430
Zoom link: https://unige.zoom.us/j/96355670430
May, Thursday, 16, 4 pm CET
Subject: Missing data in sequences.
Description: The workshop focuses on imputation of missing data in sequences.
Speakers:
Kevin Emery, seqimpute: An R Library for Visualizing and Imputing Missing Data in Sequences.
Zoom link: https://unige.zoom.us/j/96355670430
Zoom link: https://unige.zoom.us/j/96355670430
2023 Autumn Program
There will be about one session each month:
September, Thursday, 21, 4 pm CET
Subject: Recent book and software developments.
Speakers: Emanuela Struffolino, Marcel Raab, Christian Brzinsky-Fay, Brendan Halpin
Zoom link: https://unige.zoom.us/j/96355670430
October, Thursday, 19, 4 pm CET
Subject: Development and alternatives to sequence clusters.
Speakers:
Matthias Studer, Validating sequence typologies, doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/00811750211014232
Satu Helske, Dissimilarity-based variables as an alternative to cluster membership in SA, doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/00811750231177026
Zoom link: https://unige.zoom.us/j/96355670430
Satu Helske, Dissimilarity-based variables as an alternative to cluster membership in SA, doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/00811750231177026
Zoom link: https://unige.zoom.us/j/96355670430
November, Thursday, 2, 4 pm CET
Subject: Workshop on Dissimilarity Measure Choices.
Description: The workshop features two work-in-progress applications of sequence analysis in health. We discuss open questions after each presentation, with a focus on choosing dissimilarity measures.
Speakers:
Anna-Victoria Holtz, Multimorbidity and dementia trajectories in old age in Germany and Catalonia.
Dana Sarnak, Individual, dyadic, and health system factors that influence postpartum trajectories of women in Ethiopia: A sequence analysis.
Zoom link: https://unige.zoom.us/j/96355670430
Dana Sarnak, Individual, dyadic, and health system factors that influence postpartum trajectories of women in Ethiopia: A sequence analysis.
Zoom link: https://unige.zoom.us/j/96355670430
November, Thursday, 30, 4 pm CET
Subject: Workshop on Complexity Measures (& Cluster Analysis).
Description: The workshop features two work-in-progress researches concerned with measuring complexity of trajectories. We discuss open questions after each presentation, with a focus on complexity measures.
Speakers:
Miriam Siglreitmaier, Sequence Analysis of the Transition out of higher education to employment and its link to health outcomes.
Linda Vecgaile and Luca Badolato, Predicting work trajectories and retirement expectations using Machine Learning and Sequence Analysis methods.
Zoom link: https://unige.zoom.us/j/96355670430
Linda Vecgaile and Luca Badolato, Predicting work trajectories and retirement expectations using Machine Learning and Sequence Analysis methods.
Zoom link: https://unige.zoom.us/j/96355670430
December, Thursday, 14, 4 pm CET
Subject: Workshop on Cluster Analysis.
Description: The workshop features two work-in-progress applications of sequence analysis. We discuss open questions after each presentation, with a focus on clustering methods.
Speakers:
Oliver Anderson, Post compulsory education pathways (using a large sample of administrative data with many education and labor market states and possibly huge matrices).
Fabian Windhager, Postmodern urban-regional formation: clustering demographic trajectories in the Vienna city region.
Zoom link: https://unige.zoom.us/j/96355670430
Fabian Windhager, Postmodern urban-regional formation: clustering demographic trajectories in the Vienna city region.
Zoom link: https://unige.zoom.us/j/96355670430
2023 Spring Program
The Webinar Series will be devoted to an Overview of Sequence Analysis based on the story of Sequence Analysis recently published in Social Science Research (Liao et al., 2022, Sequence Analysis: its Past, Present, and Future, Doi: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2022.102772 ).
Overview of Sequence Analysis 1
February, Thursday, 23, 4 pm CET
Subject: History of sequence analysis, visualization, distance measures, cluster analysis.
Speakers: Tim Liao, Christian Brzinsky-Fay, Matthias Studer, Raffaella Piccareta
Zoom link: https://unige.zoom.us/j/96355670430
Overview of Sequence Analysis 2
March 30, Thursday, 4 pm CET
Subject: Comparing groups of sequences, polyadic sequence analysis, complexity and related sequence indicators, Markovian analysis.
Speakers: Matthias Studer, Danilo Bolano, Gilbert Ritschard, Satu Helske
Zoom link: https://unige.zoom.us/j/96355670430
Subject: Comparing groups of sequences, polyadic sequence analysis, complexity and related sequence indicators, Markovian analysis.
Speakers: Matthias Studer, Danilo Bolano, Gilbert Ritschard, Satu Helske
Zoom link: https://unige.zoom.us/j/96355670430
Overview of Sequence Analysis 3
April 20, Thursday, 4 pm CET
Subject: SA and life course research, sequence-network analysis, on-going and future SA methodological developments.
Subject: SA and life course research, sequence-network analysis, on-going and future SA methodological developments.
Speakers: Anette Fasang, Benjamin Cornwell, Tim Liao, Gilbert Ritschard
Zoom link: https://unige.zoom.us/j/96355670430
28th April 2022 at 4 PM CET: Studying Migration Using Sequence Analysis
- Citizenship and education trajectories among children of immigrants: A transition-oriented sequence analysis, Marie Labussière, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.alcr.2021.100433
- Trajectories of Spatial Assimilation or Place Stratification? A Typology of Residence and Workplace Histories of Newly Arrived Migrants in Sweden, Guilherme Kenji Chihaya, Department of Geography, Umeå University, Sweden. https://doi.org/10.1177/01979183211037314
17th March 2022 at 4 PM CET: Using Sequence Analysis to Study Household and Generational Structure
- A New Perspective on the Generational Structures of Families–Generational Placements over the Life Course, Bettina Huenteler, Institute of Sociology and Social Psychology, University of Cologne, Germany. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.alcr.2021.100450
- A New Methodological Approach to Study Household Structure From Census and Survey Data, Simona Bignami, Université de Montréal, Canada. https://doi.org/10.1177/0049124120986192
24th February 2022 at 4 PM CET: Mixture Models for Life Course Studies
- An overview of mixture modelling for latent evolutions in longitudinal data: Modelling approaches, fit statistics and software,
Gavin van der Nest, Department of Methodology and Statistics, and Care
and Public Health Research Institute (CAPHRI), Maastricht University,
the Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.alcr.2019.100323 - Predicting the stability of early employment with its timing and
childhood social and health-related predictors: a mixture Markov model
approach, Satu Helske, INVEST Research Flagship Center and Department of Social Research, University of Turku, Turku, Finland https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/qkcxs/
27th January 2022 at 4 PM CET: Sequences, Transitions and Risks
- Gender and race differences in pathways out of in-work poverty in the US, Emanuela Struffolino, Department of Social and Political Sciences, University of Milan, Italy. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssresearch.2021.102585
- Unemployment sequences and the risk of poverty: from counting duration to contextualizing sequences, Matthias Pohlig, Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences, University of Bremen, Germany. https://doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwz004
2nd December 2021 at 4 PM CET: New Approaches to Analyze Sequence Data
- The Link Between Previous Life Trajectories and a Later-Life Outcome: A Feature Selection Approach, Danilo Bolano, Dondena Centre for Research on Social Dynamics, Bocconi University, Milan Italy. http://dx.doi.org/10.12682/lives.2296-1658.2020.82
- Some Methods for the Analysis of Event Sequence Data from Multiple Respondents, John Levi Martin & James P. Murphy, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago, Chicago, USA. https://doi.org/10.1177/0049124118799387
28th October 2021 at 4 PM CET: Longitudinal Sequence Indicators
- Period measures of life course complexity, Michael Boissonneault, Netherland Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI), The Hague, The Netherlands. https://dx.doi.org/10.4054/DemRes.2021.44.47
- Measuring the nature of individual sequences, Gilbert Ritschard, LIVES Centre and Institute of Demography and Socioeconomics, University of Geneva, Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.1177/00491241211036156
30th September 2021 at 4 PM CET: Multichannel Sequence Analysis
- Couples` careers and women`s financial well-being in later life across Europe, Andreas Weiland, School of Social Sciences, University of Mannheim, Germany.
- Pathways to the power elite: The organizational landscape of elite careers, Christoph Houman Ellersgaard, department of organization, Copenhagen Business school, Denmark. https://doi.org/10.1177/0038026119852301
20th May 2021 at 4 PM CET: Causal Inference and Sequence Analysis
- Career trajectories and cumulative wages: The case of temporary employment. Sophia Fauser, Department of Sociology, University of Bamberg, Bamberg, Germany. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rssm.2020.100529
- Combining propensity score matching and sequence analysis to
study changes in professional and educational trajectories pre- and
post- first childbirth. Sara Kalucza, Department of Sociology, Umeå universitet, Sweden.
29th April 2021 at 4 PM CET: Multichannel Sequence Analysis
- Comparison of Two Approaches in Multichannel Analysis. Kevin Emery and André Berchtold, Centre LIVES, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland. http://dx.doi.org/10.12682/lives.2296-1658.2020.85
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Life-course-sensitive analysis of group inequalities in old age: Combining Multichannel Sequence Analysis with the Kitagawa-Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition. Carla Rowold, Nuffield College, University of Oxford.
25th March 2021 at 4 PM CET: Comparing groups of sequences
- Comparing Groups of Life-Course Sequences Using the Bayesian Information Criterion and the Likelihood-Ratio Test. Tim F. Liao, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. Anette E. Fasang, Humboldt University of Berlin and WZB Berlin Social Science Center, Berlin, Germany. https://doi.org/10.1177/0081175020959401
Recording of the webinar: https://sequenceanalysis.org/2021/04/15/webinars-recording-comparing-groups-of-life-course-sequences-using-the-bayesian-information-criterion-and-the-likelihood-ratio-test-25th-march-2021/
18th February 2021 at 4 PM CET: Dyadic sequence analysis
- Interdependencies in Mothers’ and Daughters’ Work-Family Life Course Trajectories: Similar but Different? Sergi Vidal, Centre for Demographic Studies, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13524-020-00899-z
Recording of the webinar: https://sequenceanalysis.org/2021/02/18/webinars-recording-of-the-18th-february-2021/
10th December 2020: Clustering of state sequence: alternative approaches
Robust Typologies in Sequence Analysis: In search of guidelines and a more systematic approach. Stefan B. Andrade, VIVE – The Danish Center for Social Science Research, Copenhagen- Divisive Property-Based and Fuzzy Clustering for Sequence Analysis, Matthias Studer, University of Geneva, Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95420-2_13
- Clustering Longitudinal Life-Course Sequences using Mixtures of Exponential-Distance Models. Keefe Murphy, Maynooth University, Ireland.
Recording of the webinar: https://sequenceanalysis.org/2020/12/11/webinars-recording-of-the-10th-december-2020/
19th November 2020: Complexity measures and longitudinal indicators computed from sequence data
- Childhood family structure and complexity in partnership life courses. Nicole Hiekel, Department of Sociology and Social Psychology, University of Cologne, Germany. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssresearch.2019.102400
- Measuring Life Course Complexity with Dynamic Sequence Analysis. David Pelletier, Department of Sociology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-020-02464-y
Recording of the webinar: https://sequenceanalysis.org/2020/11/26/webinars-recording-of-the-19th-november-2020/