Sign up for our weekly newsletter!
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.
This is a beginner tutorial for creating vector map illustrations in Adobe Illustrator. We’ll be demonstrating techniques for layering, line techniques, symbols, colors, legends, labels and overall design. The goal will be to learn to draw or recreate any map with your own look and feel.
Outline of process:
Zotero is a powerful, open-source reference management tool. For the first hour, the presenter will demonstrate the key Zotero features: importing and creating new references; managing references; inserting citations into a manuscript; and formatting bibliographies in hundreds of styles. The demonstration will be followed by a 30-minute question-and-answer session.
Join the Social Computing Working Group for a discussion of causal inference in networked data led by Seb Benthall. We will discuss applications and limitations of the potential outcomes framework in networked data sets for particular research problems. In particular, we will inquire into how to think rigorously about causal mechanisms involving emergent properties of networks.
This workshop covers how to organize and analyze qualitative data in Atlas.TI. Both researchers new to qualitative methods and experienced qualitative researchers are encouraged to attend.
This 3-hour Stata workshop is designed for people who have already taken D-Lab's 'Beginning Stata' workshop or have some significant previous experience with Stata. Students will learn:
Join the Qualitative Methods Group (QMG) for a conversation with Dr. Nikki Jones and Dr. Armando Lara-Millan about creating theory from qualitative data. Dr. Jones and Dr. Lara-Millan will discuss what kind of theory qualitative researchers can contribute, how to approach theory creation in qualitative data analysis, and how to sell your theory to other researchers.
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 presentation will cover the basics of natural experiments, along with providing two applications involving international sporting events. Certain random features of the World Cup competitions allow us to tackle the longstanding question of whether international sports encourage peace or conflict between countries. The presentation will be followed by open discussion.
The Unicode Working Group presents:
Emoji in Unicode: Its History and Future - from Galapagos Mobile to the World
A talk with Katsuhiko Momoi.
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.
This workshop will introduce the D3 javascript library and provide hands-on examples to create charts and maps with sample data. This is a two part workshop!
This introductory workshop will introduce attendees to the reason for using a qualitative data analysis package for the coding and analysis process. We will begin by discussing the distinction between coding and analysis, the benefits of using a QDA package, and then view a brief demonstration of a specific program.
This 2-hour workshop will provide a comprehensive overview of graphics in R. Participants will learn how to construct, customize, and export a variety of plot types using base graphics, lattice, and ggplot2. Previous experience with R is assumed.
This workshop will introduce two different web platforms for exploring and mapping US demographic data - SimplyMap and Policy Map. While there is some overlap between the different applications, each has its own strengths and unique features. For each platform I will provide a short demo, followed by some time to explore the data and visualization tools that each offers.
Christopher Moody from StitchFix will be speaking in BIDS about novel techniques in Natural Language Processing.
This 2-part workshop will cover (in a teaching computer lab environment, using the General Social Survey as a common dataset):
DAY ONE
This workshop will give users a familiarity with various automated text analysis approaches including dictionary methods, classification (machine learning), TF-IDF, clustering, and topic modelling. The workshop will begin with a theoretical explanation of each approach and then provide an example derived from texts of the feminist movement.
This presentation will cover the basics of natural experiments, along with providing two applications involving international sporting events. Specifically, certain random features of these events allow us to tackle the longstanding question of whether international sports encourage peace or conflict between countries. The presentation will be followed by open discussion.
This workshop will cover how to add geographic coordinates to address data. This is useful for creating maps, linking to other geospatial data, or finding distances between points. We will use two open source geocoders: Photon and The Data Science Toolkit. Participants will learn how to make API calls, how to parse the data, and how to map the results.
This workshop will cover how to create, customize, and run a web scraper using python and scrapy. We will learn how to locate and extract data from HTML web pages using the Document Object Model. Finally, we will learn how to visualize the scraped urban data spatially.
