EndNote is a bibliographic management software program that helps you organize the citations you find when doing research. It also lets you quickly insert these citations into your paper or report and converts them into any of thousands of different styles with a click or two, saving you hours of time when writing papers.
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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.
Workshop: EndNote Essentials: Part 2
October 13, 2016
Author:
Karen Andrews
Workshop: Qualitative Data Analysis with Atlas.ti
October 13, 2016
Author:
Celia Emmelhainz
This workshop covers how to organize and analyze qualitative data in Atlas.ti. The training will explore what CAQDAS (qualitative analysis) software is, and the benefits of using it to review and analyze your qualitative fieldnotes, text, video, or audio.
Workshop: Stata Intensive: Part I
October 12, 2016
Author:
Saika Belal
This three-part series will cover the following materials:
Part I: Introduction (Wednesday, October 12)
Workshop: Introduction to Data Visualization
October 12, 2016
Author:
Susan Powell, Anna Sackmann, Becky Miller, Elliott Smith
A well-designed figure can have a huge impact on the communication of research results. This workshop will introduce key principles and resources for visualizing data:
Workshop: R for Data Science: Part 1
October 11, 2016
Author:
Evan Muzzall
The R for Data Science workshop series is a four-part course, designed to take novices in the R language for statistical computing and produce programmers who are competent in finding, displaying, analyzing, and publishing data in R.
Part 1: Basics of R
October 11, 2016
Author:
Susan Powell
This workshop will introduce two different web platforms for exploring and mapping U.S. demographic data: SimplyMap and PolicyMap. While there is some overlap between the different applications, each has its own strengths and unique features. For each platform we wil walk through a short demo, followed by some time to explore the data and visualization tools that each platform offers.
Workshop: Python for Everything: Part 1
October 10, 2016
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:
Workshop: Geocoding in ArcGIS
October 10, 2016
Author:
Patty Frontiera
This workshop will introduce geocoding--the process of determining the geographic location of a place name, zipcode, or address. The first part of this workshop will be an introduction to the process of geocoding and strategies for achieving good results. We will briefly discuss the pros and cons of the various software tools available for geocoding.
October 7, 2016
Author:
Jon Stiles
This introduction will discuss what data the Census collects, how it can be accessed and used, what the content and geographic coverage of the surveys are, and issues or concerns to think about when considering such data for your research needs.
Workshop: Getting Started with Grant Writing
October 7, 2016
Author:
Sharon Sagiv
This workshop will introduce the fundamentals of grant proposal writing. The presentation will provide an overview of the process of developing an NIH Research Grant (R series), though other grant mechanisms will be mentioned as well. The workshop will also introduce the grant submission process and grant review.
Workshop: Finding Health Statistics and Data
October 6, 2016
Author:
Michael Sholinbeck
Participants in this workshop will learn about some of the issues surrounding the collection of health statistics, and will also learn about authoritative sources of health statistics and data. We will look at tools that let you create custom tables of vital statistics (birth, death, etc.), disease statistics, health behavior statistics, and more. The focus will be on U.S.
Workshop: Data Wrangling and Manipulation in R
October 6, 2016
Author:
Evan Muzzall
It is often said that 80% of data analysis is spent on the process of cleaning and preparing the data. This workshop will introduce tools (notably dplyr and tidyr) that makes data wrangling and manipulation much easier. Participants will learn how to use these packages to subset and reshape data sets, do calculations across groups of data, clean data, and other useful stuff.
Workshop: Programming FUN!damentals
October 5, 2016
Author:
Natalie Ahn
An intro to the basics that instructors often assume you know, but that you probably never had good instruction on! After this course, you should be able to more easily start learning to program (e.g., in R or python), follow instructions and documentation online (e.g., StackExchange), and communicate better with your collaborators who are programming. This interactive workshop will cover:
October 4, 2016
Join the Qualitative Methods Group for a conversation with Dr. Jovan Lewis on ethnographic methods. Dr. Lewis will provide an overview of ethnography including its three central components.
Workshop: Python for Everything: Part 4
October 4, 2016
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.
Workshop: EndNote Essentials: Part 1
October 4, 2016
Author:
Karen Andrews
EndNote is a bibliographic management software program that helps you organize the citations you find when doing research. It also lets you quickly insert these citations into your paper or report and converts them into any of thousands of different styles with a click or two, saving you hours of time when writing papers.
Workshop: R for Data Science: Part 4
October 3, 2016
Author:
Evan Muzzall
The R for Data Science workshop series is a four-part course, designed to take novices in the R language for statistical computing and produce programmers who are competent in finding, displaying, analyzing, and publishing data in R.
Part 4: Functions and Packages
Workshop: Introduction to Georeferencing
September 30, 2016
Author:
Susan Powell
This workshop will cover the basic concepts involved in georeferencing/georectifiying a digital image and provide hands-on practice using a web-based interface. Georeferencing involves “spatializing” scanned maps or aerial imagery so they can be used in a geographic information system (GIS).
Workshop: RefWorks for Beginners
September 29, 2016
Author:
Lee Adams
RefWorks is a web-based citation management tool. This workshop will cover the basics of creating new citations, importing citations from various databases, inserting references and creating bibliographies in Google Docs (also works with Microsoft Word, but this session will focus on Google Docs).
September 29, 2016
Author:
Nora Broege
This two-part workshop provides an introduction to both quantitative and qualitative social science methods.
