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Howdy Neighbor! Proximity Analysis in R

Posted: Mar, 01, 2021

By: Patty Frontiera

Proximity analysis is one of the cornerstones of spatial analysis. It refers to the ways in which we use spatial methods to ask "what is happening near here".

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Test Basic Page

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Black History Month 2021

Posted: Feb, 23, 2021

By: Patty Frontiera

Black History Month, which is observed in February, was established in the 1970s to celebrate the culture and accomplishments of African Americans. Although this designation may seem artificial or unnecessarily limiting (why only one month?), it is useful if it foregrounds the need to better weave Black narratives into the story of the American experience. 

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Can virtual communities be archived?

Posted: Feb, 23, 2021

By: Anushah Hossain

When future historians try to piece together social life in the twenty-first century, they won’t be combing through faded newspaper clippings or handwritten letters. They’ll be clicking through digital archives that have stored remnants of our real and virtual lives: email collections, tweets, Facebook messages, maybe even Google Calendar entries. 

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D-Lab Info Session for LBNL

D-Lab info session for the LBNL community. Come learn about all the resources and services D-Lab has to offer and see how you can get involved! We will give an overview of our workshops, trainings, consultations, services, and projects.  

This is also a chance for D-Lab to engage with the LBNL Community. We hope to collaborate on how the D-Lab can support and be a resource for LBNL with research or professional development.  

Stata Fundamentals: Parts 1-3

Overview

This three-part series will cover the following materials:

Part 1:  Introduction

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R Census Geospatial

Since 1790, the US Census has been THE source of data about American people, providing valuable insights to social scientists and humanists. Mapping these data by census geographies adds more value by allowing researchers to explore spatial trends and outliers. This workshop will introduce three key packages for streamlining census data workflows in R: tigris, tidycensus and tmap.

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R Functional Programming

Overview

This workshop helps you to step up your R skills with functional programming. The purrr package provides easy-to-use tools to automate repeated things in your entire R workflow (e.g., wrangling, modeling, and visualization). The end result is cleaner, faster, more readable and extendable code. I highly recommend you to take this workshop (1) if you still write copy-and-paste code, (2) exclusively rely on for loops for automation, and (3) want to know about the joy and power of R functional programming.

Prerequisites

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Python Fundamentals: Parts 1-4

Overview

This four-part, interactive workshop series is your complete introduction to programming Python for people with little or no previous programming experience. By the end of the series, you will be able to apply your knowledge of basic principles of programming and data manipulation to a real-world social science application.

Part 1 Topics:

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