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Training: Exploring Mailing List Data with BigBang
November 12, 2014
Mailing lists, or listserves, are a fascinating wealth of social scientific data that can be used to answer questions from fields as diverse as linguistics and sociology.
November 7, 2014
The Statistics Department is offering a two-session workshop on distributed computing using Spark.
November 6, 2014
This two-hour workshop will introduce address geocoding - the process of determining the geographic location of a street address.
November 6, 2014
This two-hour workshop will introduce address geocoding - the process of determining the geographic location of a street address.
Training: Joining the Python Community
October 1, 2014
This workshop is for those who use or are planning to use Python for data analysis.
Training: Python Intensive
August 19, 2014 to August 22, 2014
Get an orientation to the basics of working with social science data in python.
Training: Python Intensive
May 27, 2014 to May 30, 2014
Get an orientation to the basics of working with social science data in python.
Training: ArcGIS to Grasshopper
April 15, 2014
Using Grasshopper and Finches, a plugin for Grasshopper, we will experiment with importing GIS shp files into Grasshopper for further manipulation.
Training: Data Visualization in Grasshopper
April 8, 2014
In this workshop, we will use grasshopper, a graphical scripting interface for Rhino, as an engine to parse and related diverse data sets with each other, and create a wide range of data visualizat
