http://crookedtimber.org/2013/05/21/call-for-participation-doctoral-workshop...

They're reviewing applications right now; applying earlier is better. The application form is really short. Scholars who study Wikimedia readers' and editors' behavior, and who want better tools to analyse the datasets available at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Data , might benefit.

We invite doctoral students who study human behavior in digital environments, and who are at the beginning stages of their dissertation work, to apply to a workshop focusing on methodological issues in this kind of research.

The goal of the workshop is to bring together about a dozen junior and half-a-dozen senior scholars to discuss methodological best practices for the in-depth study of human behavior in digital environments. So-called “big data” offer lots of opportunities to study the social world, but may miss insights that methods such as in-person observations and interviews can discover. Bringing different types of data and methods together can help address challenges, such as biased data sets, and can help glean new insights. Workshop participants will discuss tools that exist and tools that need to be developed for sharable, sustainable, and scalable approaches to collecting, coding, and analyzing comparable data about human behavior in digital environments.