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Factor Analysis within School Psychology

In this presentation, I will discuss the use of these procedures in developing two attitudinal instruments and validating their scores. I will show how exploratory factor analyses contributed to the refinement of subscales during the process of development and how confirmatory factor analyses were used to provide support for the theoretical models underlying the instruments. I will also provide an example of a scale which is not as well supported by these techniques as a counter example.

Big Data and Spatial Analysis for Big History: A Practical Discussion with Ruth Mostern

Ruth Mostern will lead a practical discussion on the practical aspects of several of her current and recent research projects. Her work includes the development of digital gazetteers and digital atlases concerning travel, politics and the environment of China and the Silk Road over large temporal and spatial scales; and the design and implementation of data sharing and collaborative environments for historical research.

Numeric data

This 2 hour presentation will identify key numeric data resources drawn on by researchers, how they are produced, ways to search and access those resources, variable types, and local sources of assistance at UC Berkeley.

Basic elements of SPSS

This 2-hour workshop will introduce the basic elements of SPSS – including the GUI menu, help system, basic settings, and file types – for new users. It will, drawing on examples, identify how to read in data in various forms, label variables and values, assign missing values, generate frequencies, descriptive statistics and cross-tabulations, and manipulate and export tables. No prior experience with statistical packages is assumed. This introduction provides the background for later workshops in data transformations, data management, and exploratory analysis.

Intro to databases for primary source research

Today, virtually all the information you interact with is stored in a relational database. Knowing how these databases are put together will assist you in getting at the various treasure-troves of data already available, and it can open up new avenues of inquiry and methods of organization using data you have collected yourself. Using Open Office Base, which is available free-of-charge, this workshop will focus on the practical use of relational database software for conducting primary source research, covering the theory, methodology, and practical applications of relational databases.

Intro to XML for social scientists and humanists

This offering now starts on March 1, continuing March 8 and 15. XML is the basic standard from which many encoding languages are created, and it structures how most of the data on the Internet is stored. Ubiquitous in programming and relatively easy to learn, XML is a fundamental computing skill, and it can provide a powerful tool for manipulating and presenting data (e.g., for web scraping).

Introduction to R for Advanced Beginners

In an an interactive workshop designed for users with no previous computing experience, we will cover the basics of R, reading in and examining data, summarizing dat,a basic hypothesis testing, plotting, and customizing output. This workshop assumes prior experience with introductory statistics.This is a two part workshop and people are encouraged to attend Part 1 on 04/05 followed by Part 2 on 04/12.

Intro to R, Part 1 - for absolute beginners

Aimed at students with no background knowledge in programming languages or statistics. Participants will be led step-by-step through the basics of using R for data exploration and analysis, with an emphasis on developing core skills that can be ported over to one's own data sets.

Consulting Calendar

D-Lab offers consulting services on research design, data analysis, data management, and related techniques and technologies.

Over the summer, consulting is offered by appointment only. Please complete our intake form to schedule an appointment.

Special Seminar with Dan Cohen on DH and Social Science Computing

Posted: Jan, 29, 2013

By: Christopher Church

Today was the first meeting of Dan Cohen's seminar on The Digital Humanities and Social Science Computing. Over the next three weeks, Professor Cohen will lead a group of twenty scholars, researchers, librarians, and graduate students from all over campus, addressing both the theoretical implications and practical applications of digital research methods, data analysis, and scholarship.

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