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Are you an R Hero? Join our Team!

Posted: Dec, 11, 2015

By: Trinetta Chiao Chong

The D-Lab is hiring R instructors for the Spring semester to teach beginning and intermediate classes in data visualization and analysis! Requirements: you must be competent in R and you must be available on campus the week before classes start (i.e. 11-15 Jan 2016), and familiarity with git is desired. If interested, please contact Dillon Niederhut atdillon.niederhut@berkeley.edu

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Berkeley Mood: Twitter and Python

Posted: Nov, 13, 2015

By: juanshishido

At the D-Lab, we work hard to provide the campus community with access to the learning resources they need. We consult and teach workshops on research design, data analysis, coding, and much more. We also like to have fun.

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D-Lab: Looking for Team Members

Posted: Jul, 07, 2015

By: Susan Ayasse Gr...

D-Lab is hiring undergraduate students to join the team. If you are friendly, self-motivated, tech-savvy and you like to keep busy, click through!

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D-Lab is looking for grad students to join us this Fall.

Posted: May, 25, 2015

By: Patty Frontiera

If you feel inspired to help fellow researchers and students learn about and work with research methods and tools, we're interested in hiring you. The D-Lab supports quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-methods research at each stage of the process—from research design to data analysis. We have an open, inclusive culture that values diversity and open exchange. At D-Lab, you will have the opportunity to develop leadership in a particular area while working collaboratively with other students and staff.  Our needs tend to fall into three categories, described below.

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Collegial Competition at the Cornerstone Contest

Posted: May, 12, 2015

By: Susan Ayasse Gr...

The career evening and datathon with Cornerstone was a huge hit.  

On the evening of April 30th, several staff from Cornerstone came to D-Lab to talk about work as an economic consultant: a practical application of rigorous quantitative research and analysis.  The culture at Cornerstone - a mixture of rigor and collegiality, of suits and jeans, of financial district and tech industry - is a great fit for D-Lab!

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Training Social Scientists for the Internet of Things #DataEDGE

Posted: May, 08, 2015

By: Sebastian P Benthall

At the DataEDGE conference today, Quentin Hardy interviewed Michael Chui, senior fellow of the McKinsey Global Institute, about the Internet of Things (IoT). Representing a management consulting firm, Chui emphasized the business potential of IoT. He maintains that this sector hold great promise.

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Causality in complex networks

Posted: Apr, 22, 2015

By: Sebastian P Benthall

One of the opportunities and challenges of 'data science' is that it allows you to bring the methodological flexibility of scientific computing to bear on newly available, complex data sets from ubiquitous sensors and the Web. This is an opportunity because it means there are ways we can confirm old theories using ecologically valid observational data, as well as potentially prove new theories. It is a challenge because ecological data does not isolate the factors of interest and the techniques for deriving causal conclusions from it are notoriously tricky and often statistically weak.

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Cornerstone Research – Career Evening and Economic Consulting Datathon, April 30 and May 2

Posted: Apr, 22, 2015

By: Susan Ayasse Gr...

Introducing the Cornerstone Research Economic Consulting Datathon

Cornerstone Research, in partnership with D-Lab, is excited to announce the first-ever Economic Consulting Datathon: an opportunity for UC Berkeley students to showcase their programming skills, their expertise in statistical and econometric techniques, and their economic acumen.

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Address Geocoding: options for the UC Berkeley Community

Posted: Apr, 16, 2015

By: Patty Frontiera

A number of UCB students and researchers have asked the D-Lab about tools for geocoding street address. In this post we provide an overview of geocoding and geocoding software options to help you get started.

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Introducing Social Computing

Posted: Feb, 09, 2015

By: Sebastian P Benthall

A perennial challenge for the D-Lab is how to target our trainings. We are aware of a great unmet need for training social scientists, especially graduate students, in learning basic technical skills. We are always looking for ways to make our trainings more accessible and inclusive.

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