Médialab's digital tools

The médialab designs innovative processing chains to describe and model social processes based on the traces they leave in digital environments (mainly websites, social networks, platforms and online media).
Researchers and research engineers jointly design tools and methods to collect, process and visualize the social phenomena that digital data analysis reveals in social science and sociology surveys.

Researchers and research engineers jointly design tools and methods to collect, process and visualize the social phenomena that digital data analysis reveals in social science and sociology surveys.

Within the principles of Open Science, and in order to guarantee the durability, robustness and reproducibility of data collection and analysis, all code and tools developed are systematically published as Open Source under a free license, notably on the médialab's GitHub account.

Sciences Po Institutional Repositor (SPIRE)

Sciences Po Institutional Repository (SPIRE) is the institutional depository of academic production at Sciences Po, aiming to reference the entire collection of publications of the academic community. 

Spire makes available full-text versions of publications, online and for free, while respecting author rights, thereby contributing to better dissemination and valorisation of Sciences Po’s academic production. 

Jointly supported by the departments and research centres of Sciences Po, the Office of the Vice Provost for Research and the Sciences Po Library, Spire contains articles published in academic journals, books and chapter, research reports, working papers, conference presentations, etc.

Ph.D. candidates at Sciences Po can also deposit their publications in SPIRE. To do so, they must make a request to the secretary general of the research centre to which they are attached.

METAT : workshop on methods

METAT is a workshop for research methods: each month, a three-hour slot of support and technical advice on the research methods you need for a scientific project.

Concretely ?

METAT is a three-hour "open door" workshop that takes place every second Tuesday of the month from 2:30 pm to 5:30 pm on the Sciences Po campus in Paris. Each session welcomes a variable number of participants depending on the requests received.

Each session begins with a methodological group discussion that allows for a better understanding of the issues and problems encountered by each participant. Then, small groups of participants/coaches are formed to individually address very practical aspects, such as the reformulation of hypotheses, the choice of a method, the limits of a data corpus, the question of data dissemination or various technical problems. The objective is to help the participant to move forward. To meet this challenge, the coaching can take different forms depending on the issues: programming, help in using turnkey tools or exclusively discussion.

Who is METAT for?

The METAT is intended for anyone who would like to receive occasional support in the use of a research tool or method. All profiles are welcome: students, (post)doctoral students, researchers, research engineering professionals or others, both internal and external to Sciences Po, without restriction of status or affiliation. This support can take place at any stage of a project.

Who organizes it?

METAT is organized by a group of research engineers, archivists, documentalists and cartographers from Sciences Po who wish to exchange and train through practice.

More info: METAT Webpage

The cartography workshop

Working in close collaboration with research

The cartography workshop (FR) has been contributing to Sciences Po's innovative educational programme since 1995. It offers undergraduate and master's students services that include data collection and processing, spatial representations of social phenomena and, more particularly, the mapping of globalization and concepts of semiotics. The different advisory services available to individuals and groups and the online Map Library (FR) form the basis of its educational support work.

The team also assists researchers and doctoral students with graphic representations of their field of research, based on surveys covering the different domains of international relations, political science and history.

The cartography workshop also acts as a service provider for Les Presses de Sciences Po, La Documentation Française, Le Monde, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, the French Ministry of Defence Delegation for Strategic Affairs, the Agence Française de Développement, and various museums, including the Cité Nationale de l’Histoire de l’Immigration and the Louvre.

Apart from students and researchers, the online map library has many visitors, both French and foreign (high school teachers, journalists) interested in its database of outline maps, maps and graphics covering contemporary global phenomena. It has started translating these works into several languages (English, Portuguese and Arabic).

More information

The cartography workshop's website (FR)