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DSI Seminar - Jure Leskovec (Stanford CS) - Computational Perspectives on Social Phenomena: How status and reputation shape human evaluations

This cross-disciplinary seminar series will feature speakers tackling social science questions with big data and cutting-edge computation, data analysis, and inference techniques. Talks will alternate between Berkeley and Stanford, and logistics will be arranged for people from both institutions to see every talk. A light lunch will be provided.

Learn to Manage Citations!

The EDP Library will provide drop-in tutorials this Spring 2013 to help you learn a citation management tool. We're offering introductory tutorials in three different tools: Zotero (Firefox-based), RefWorks, and Endnote.

Data resources

Data resources are at the heart of good research. This page lists data resources operating under the D-Lab umbrella. We hope to add capacity to host additional data resources. See the campus resources page for additional resources across the Berkeley campus. In Spring 2013 D-Lab incorporated the UC DATA archive, which serves campus needs for public use data, and the California Census Research Data Center (CCRDC), which supports access to selected restricted use data.

How to Write an Academic Grant Proposal: A Grant-Writing Workshop

This workshop will cover the basic principles of writing an academic grant proposal. Topics to be covered include the following: funding sources, the do's and don'ts of grant writing, and the elements of grant proposals (and how they interconnect). If time allows, we may review some sample grant proposals.

NIH Funding for Pre-doctoral and Post-doctoral Research

This workshop is designed to introduce graduate students to the possibilities of obtaining NIH funding for either their dissertation work, or for a period of funded research after completing their doctorate. The most common are F31 pre-doctoral and F32 or K01 postdoctoral fellowships, each with provides up to 3 years of funding, with a significant stipend, and where relevant, a large proportion of fees paid. Fellowships are mentored research projects, where the research itself is the case study for the training. NIH supports a wide variety of topics through its institutes and centers.

Graphing in Stata

This introductory workshop focuses on practical strategies for visualizing data using Stata. We will explore the basic graphing commands for scatter, line, bar, and pie charts, as well as strategies for navigating the help commands to make visuals that are high-quality, high-resolution, customizable, and effective. We will discuss options for interfacing with other programs (e.g. Excel and Illustrator) to harness the strengths of each program. In addition, this workshop will review options for making graphical displays related to meta-analysis (e.g. forest plots and funnel plots).

Design your first survey

This workshop provide basic information on how to create a survey questionnaire design that generates valid data; how to reduce the potential bias in the data collected through careful survey design; how to use online tools to implement your survey; and how to understand statistical confidence and sampling frames for survey research.

Introduction to Stata and how to apply quantitative methods to your research ideas

This workshop will introduce participants to the basics of using the statistical analytical package STATA. It will cover how to import, code, and analyze data in STATA. It also includes an introduction to STATA’s graphing capabilities.

Computing and the Practice of History: Dan Cohen

Professor Cohen is a British and American intellectual and religious historian and an internationally recognized leader in the digital humanities. Throughout his career, he has been active in software development, in pedagogy, and in thinking programmatically about the impact of new technology on research in the humanities and the interpretive social sciences.

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