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.

Join a collaborative workshop focusing on data management for ethnographers. How do you take and organize fieldnotes? How do you use and keep track of multiple kinds of "data", from course notes to images, interview transcripts to pdfs? Do you have a favorite tactic for outlining and organizing your writing?

D-Lab was built to support data-intensive social sciences. The statistics graduate students would like to participate in this effort. We're continuing our informal discussions between social science and statistics grad students, hoping to engage in some dialogue to foster better forms of collaboration at an exploratory, journal article-scale level.

Lunch will be provided for the first 20 to sign up -- please RSVP if you want us to hold a box lunch from FSM.