🚨 Heads up on upfront costs: This course requires a Claude Code subscription and a budget for Prolific participants (Which does not have to be much depending on your study size). Plan for these before you begin. The payoff: you'll go from zero to a fully deployed, analyzed experiment end to end in a single day.

Intro to the Course

Overview

This course is about a revelation. At some point in every researcher's career, something clicks. You stop fighting your tools and start building them. This course is about that moment, and giving it to you on purpose. We'll walk you through how to design, deploy, and analyze behavioral experiments using a modern full-stack toolkit. No more wrestling with survey platforms that weren't built for science. No more duct-taping together tools that almost do what you need. You're going to build exactly what your research demands.

What We're Building

By the end of this course, you will have:

  • Designed and deployed a real behavioral experiment to the internet
  • Collected data from real participants using Prolific
  • Analyzed that data by directing Claude Code (or Claude Desktop connected to your repository)

This isn't a survey of tools. It's a complete workflow, from research question to analyzed dataset, finished in a day.

Who This Is For

Behavioral researchers who are ready to meet the tools of the future. That includes:

  • Master's students looking for hands-on experience in the experimental analysis of behavior: a thesis-ready preparation you built and understand end to end, instead of a borrowed one
  • Doctoral students planning a research project in the human operant domain who want to collect their own data at scale rather than wait on lab access or platform budgets
  • Faculty and research mentors who want a low-cost way to run human operant studies and a modern workflow to hand their students
  • Practicing behavior analysts and behavioral data scientists who've ever thought there has to be a better way while clicking through a form builder or exporting CSVs from a platform that charges per response

No prior web development experience required. Curiosity required.

Why Now?

The ability to scale software up and down has never been easier. The ability to harness behavioral data has never been more accessible. The tools are too good not to share.

Modern infrastructure has collapsed what used to take a team weeks into something one researcher can build in a weekend. The barrier between I have a research question and I have data has never been lower.

Course Structure

Each lesson follows the same pattern:

  1. Concept: Why this matters for behavioral research
  2. Build: A working implementation you create by directing Claude Code
  3. Key Points: What to take away
  4. Exercises: Hands-on practice

Your Instructors

Dr. David J. Cox: Dr. David Cox can formally lay claim to being a bioethicist (master's degree), a board-certified behavior analyst at the doctoral level (PhD degree), a behavioral economist (post-doc training), and a data scientist (post-doc training). He has worked in behavior analysis for 20 years as a clinician, academic researcher, scholar, technologist, and all-around behavior science junky. From his work and collaborations, David has published 70+ peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and books. And, has had the fortune to serve as Editor in Chief for The Experimental Analysis of Human Behavior Bulletin and Associate or Guest Editor for Perspectives on Behavior Science, Behavior Analysis in Practice, Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, Psychological Record, Education and Treatment of Children, Toward Data Science, and Behavior and Social Issues. When he's not doing research or building quantitative models of behavior-environment relations, he enjoys spending time with his wife, two beagles, and two kittens around St. John's, FL.

Jacob Sosine: Jacob began his work in behavior analysis in 2011, directly implementing behavior analytic services. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Exercise Physiology from Chico State University, a Master's in Professional Behavior Analysis from Florida Institute of Technology, and an MBA with an emphasis in Business Analytics from Saint Mary's College of California. As a Board Certified Behavior Analyst and data scientist, Jacob's research sits at the intersection of behavior analysis, technology, and machine learning/artificial intelligence. Jacob is the founder of Behaviorchain LLC, where he builds technology for behavior analysts, tools designed to make research more accessible, data more actionable, and the field's growing literature easier to navigate. His work focuses on developing innovative software and data-driven solutions that empower behavior analysts in both clinical and research settings. Outside of work, Jacob is convinced the S.F. Giants will win the World Series every year, and you can often find him at a game with his wife and young daughter. He is also on record as claiming that Dr. Cox shares his belief that the SF Giants are the most storied franchise in all of sports, a claim Dr. Cox has neither confirmed nor denied.

This course will provide continuing education units (CEUs). Details will be announced ahead of the full launch.