This workshop will cover the basic principles and methods of sampling.  Topics will include a discussion of the various types of samples,  the creation of sampling frames, the use of stratification, and basic methods of selecting samples.  Determining an appropriate sample size will also be discussed.

A two-part, two-hour workshop for faculty, graduate students, and staff who want to start a digital project that includes a web presence.

Day 1

The first part will cover how to set up and configure a basic Drupal site using free hosting, and how to develop well-structured "content types" to store whatever data your project is working with (poems, verbs, quotes from a novel, excerpts from documents, historical events, etc.)

D-Lab coordinates and collaborates with the Townsend Center's working group on the Digital Humanities, an interdisciplinary group focused on the application of digital methods and computing technologies to humanities research. The goal of the Digital Humanities working group is to provide a way for all the digital humanities groups on campus to unite with each other, keep each other abreast of current trends and new methods, and exchange ideas. 

This 2-hour workshop introduces the basics of data analysis in R, a powerful and free open-source programming environment. You will learn the core properties of the R programming language through step-by-step examples and scaffolded exercises with data provided by the instructor. At the end of the workshop you will be able to import, analyze, manipulate, and save data sets, and create simple plots of the data.