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This is an archive of our past training offerings. We are looking to include workshops on topics not yet covered here. Is there something not currently on the list? Send us a proposal.
Co-sponsored by the UC Berkeley Statistics Department and the D-Lab.
The workshop will be an intensive two-day introduction to R using RStudio. After the first morning session, the workshop will (staffing permitting) be split into two separate tracks. Topics will include
D-Lab is recruiting UC Berkeley graduate students for workshop instructors, consultants, and our D-Lab Data Science Fellows program. We are holding an info session on Thursday, July 22 from 12pm-1pm for folks to learn more about D-Lab and hear from current D-Lab students.
Computational Text Analysis Working Group (CTAWG)
Title: [UCSF Bakar] Enhancing physicians’ prognoses using deep learning: an ergonomic UI to find similar patient groups and medical trends
Computational Text Analysis Working Group (CTAWG)
Title: Returning to Foster Care: Revisited with Computational Text Analysis
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Geospatial data are an important component of data visualization and analysis in the social sciences, humanities, and elsewhere. The R programming language is a great platform for exploring these data and integrating them into your research.
Geospatial Data in R, part I:Getting started with spatial data objects
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This three-part series will cover the following materials:
Part 1: Introduction
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Data are the foundations of the social and biological sciences. Familiarizing yourself with a programming language can help you better understand the roles that data play in your field. Learn to develop and train your data skills for free at our R workshops!
Computational Text Analysis Working Group (CTAWG)
Title: The Cost of Conflict in Bankruptcy Reorganizations
Speaker: Kenneth Ayotte, Robert L. Bridges Professor of Law, UC Berkeley
Public meetings allow constituents to comment on matters before local governments, providing signals of public opinion in an otherwise low-information environment. Recent advances in the availability of administrative data have shown inequalities in who participates by race, age, and homeownership status.
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A brief history of ANNs (Artificial Neural Networks) and an explanation of the intuition behind them. This part aims to give the audience a conceptual understanding with few mathematical barriers, and no programming requirements.
This workshop introduces the basic concepts of Deep Learning - the training and performance evaluation of large neural networks, especially for image classification, natural language processing, and time-series data. Like many other machine learning algorithms, we will use deep learning algorithms to map input data to their appropriately classified outcome labels.
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This workshop introduces students to scikit-learn, the popular machine learning library in Python, as well as the auto-ML library built on top of scikit-learn, TPOT. The focus will be on scikit-learn syntax and available tools to apply machine learning algorithms to datasets.
Machine learning often evokes images of Skynet, self-driving cars, and computerized homes. However, these ideas are less science fiction as they are tangible phenomena that are predicated on description, classification, prediction, and pattern recognition in data.
Title: Mining for Conspiracies: A pipeline for the discovery of conspiracy theories on social media
Speaker: Tim Tangherlini is a Professor in the Dept of Scandinavian here at UC Berkeley.
For this workshop, we'll provide an introduction to visualization with Python. We'll cover visualization theory and plotting with Matplotlib and Seaborn, working through examples in a Jupyter (formerly IPython) notebook. The following plot types will be covered:
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If you've tinkered in WordPress, Google Sites, or other web publishing tools, chances are you've wanted more control over the placement and appearance of your content. With a little HTML and CSS under your belt, you'll know how to edit "under the hood" so you can place an image exactly where you want it, customize the formatting of text, or troubleshoot copy & paste issues.
