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Making the Most of MS Word

Many of us use MS Word on a daily basis, often spending hours at a time typing our dissertation chapters, research papers, and fellowship statements.  Word can often be a frustrating tool, but it also has some useful functions.  This workshop will introduce some of the more useful functions of Word, specifically geared towards graduate students in the social science and humanities.  Participants should expect to leave the workshop able to use Word more efficiently and effectively in their day-to-day lives.

Introduction to Python

Python is a powerful yet easy to learn programming language. This two-part workshop will teach some of the basics of Python, aimed at participants who have no programming knowledge but want to learn Python for basic scripting. It aims to help participants discover how Python is useful for their own research and provide a foundation that enables them to learn more on their own. Note: This workshop is probably not appropriate for those who have experience in other programming languages.

Hack the book!

Posted: Mar, 20, 2013

By: Cathryn CARSON

On the Same Page is pulling in every incoming Berkeley undergrad to read this book about the dawn of the computer age. Before they roll it out this summer, they're looking for creative ideas from graduate students (and others!) to engage every incoming student.

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Engaging Digital Humanities Curriculum

Ray Siemens will lead a conversation exploring key elements of disciplinary and interdisciplinary change relating to technology in the Humanities and the response of Digital Humanities curriculum. Siemens is the Canada Research Chair in Humanities Computing and Distinguished Professor in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Victoria in English and Computer Science.  

Managing Collaborative Digital Projects - A Workshop with Lynne Siemens

Dr. Lynne Siemens is an Assistant Professor in the School of Public Administration at the University of Victoria. Her research is varied and crosses disciplinary lines with a focus on knowledge transfer and mobilization at individual, organizational and community levels.

Townsend Brown Bag: Building Text-Analysis Tools for Literary Study
Marti Hearst (School of Information) and Bryan Wagner (English) will discuss their National Endowment for the Humanities funded WordSeer project. They will be joined by Ph.D. candidate Aditi Muralidharan (EECS), whose initial research, asking how natural language processing and data visualization could be applied to the process of literary study, began the project.

Introduction to Stata

This workshop will provide a hands-on introduction to Stata.  Participants will gain facility in using Stata for basic data management and analysis, which includes reading in data, data cleaning and using Stata's built in commands to run basic statistical analyses, including descriptive statistics, generating frequencies and running hypothesis tests. The workshop will also provide a basic introduction to Stata's programming structure. This workshop is designed for individuals who have little or no experience using Stata software or any statistical package.

Hack the book!

On the Same Page is pulling in every incoming Berkeley undergrad to read this book about the dawn of the computer age. Before they roll it out this summer, they're looking for creative ideas from graduate students (and others!) to engage every incoming student.

Hack the book!

On the Same Page is pulling in every incoming Berkeley undergrad to read this book about the dawn of the computer age. Before they roll it out this summer, they're looking for creative ideas to engage every incoming student.

The U.S. Health and Retirement Study (HRS)

On Friday, March 22 at 2:10pm in the Demography conference room, there will be an informal workshop on the U.S. Health and Retirement Study (HRS), a publicly available panel dataset of Americans over age 50.  Everyone is welcome to attend, and there will be recording of the session for future viewing online if you'd like to attend but can't make it.

The goals are to introduce the dataset to interested researchers and briefly discuss its contents and structure, and to conduct some hands-on manipulation of the data in Stata to help folks get started.

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