The R for Data Science workshop series is a four part course, designed for novices in R.n Day 3 (analyzing data). Students will be able to explore, summarize, and analyze data using R's implementation of exploratory and inferential data analysis.
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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.
January 14, 2016
Author:
Dillon Niederhut
Workshop: INTENSIVE: Stata
January 14, 2016 to January 15, 2016
Author:
Chris Kennedy, Orestes "Pat" Hastings
This is a 2-day intensive presentation of the D-Lab’s Introductory Stata workshop series. It will cover the following materials.
Part I: Introduction
January 14, 2016
Author:
Zawadi Rucks-Ahidiana
The following qualitative data analysis workshop is being offered as part of an intensive series. Workshop attendees are welcome to pick and choose which sessions best fit their qualitative data analysis needs. If, for example, you already know you are interested in working with Atlas.TI or NVivo, please attend the Atlas.TI or NVivo sessions and skip the Introduction to Qualitative Data Analy
January 13, 2016
Author:
Andrew Bertoli, Dillon Niederhut
The R for Data Science workshop series is a four part course, designed for novices in the R language. Day 2 (clean and tidy data). Students will be introduced to the best practices for sanitizing and tidying data.
January 13, 2016
Author:
Zawadi Rucks-Ahidiana
The following qualitative data analysis workshop is being offered as part of an intensive series. Workshop attendees are welcome to pick and choose which sessions best fit their qualitative data analysis needs. If, for example, you already know you are interested in working with Atlas.TI or NVivo, please attend the Atlas.TI or NVivo sessions and skip the Introduction to Qualitative Data Analy
January 12, 2016
Author:
Dillon Niederhut
The R for Data Science workshop series is a four part course, designed for novices in R. Day 1 (basics of R). Students will understand the motivation behind object orientation, and how that relates to computation. Students will be able to perform basic functions in R necessary to use the software on their computers and conduct basic arithmetic.
January 12, 2016
Author:
Zawadi Rucks-Ahidiana
The following qualitative data analysis workshop is being offered as part of an intensive series. Workshop attendees are welcome to pick and choose which sessions best fit their qualitative data analysis needs. If, for example, you already know you are interested in working with Atlas.TI or NVivo, please attend the Atlas.TI or NVivo sessions and skip the Introduction to Qualitative Data Analy
January 11, 2016
Author:
Zawadi Rucks-Ahidiana
The following qualitative data analysis workshop is being offered as part of an intensive series. Workshop attendees are welcome to pick and choose which sessions best fit their qualitative data analysis needs. If, for example, you already know you are interested in working with Atlas.TI or NVivo, please attend the Atlas.TI or NVivo sessions and skip the Introduction to Qualitative Data Analy
Workshop: Geocoding and Mapping in R
December 10, 2015
Author:
Patty Frontiera
This workshop will introduce geocoding - the process of determining the geographic coordinates for place names, zip codes or addresses. The first part of this workshop will be an introduction to the process of geocoding and strategies for achieving good results. This process will be demonstrated using the R ggmap package, which calls the Google Geocoding service.
December 9, 2015
Author:
Tom Holub
Wordpress is an easy-to-use and powerful web hosting platform. Its "famous" 5-minute installation procedure really can be done in 5 minutes, and installing an attractive theme and uploading simple content doesn't take much longer. Once that's done, the possibilities are endless; we'll look at some of the plug-ins that can help you display and publicize your research data.
Workshop: Getting started with Grant Writing
December 9, 2015
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. In addition, the workshop will also introduce the grant submission process and grant review. No previous knowledge is assumed.
Workshop: Introduction to Social Science Methods
December 7, 2015 to December 8, 2015
Author:
Nora Broege, Carmen Brick
This is a two-day workshop!
Workshop: Python Basics (Part 2)
November 20, 2015
Author:
Kunal Marwaha
This workshop will be a dive into programming and data analysis in Python. We will cover functions, modules, plotting, and regression, and review the basic tools of Python. By the end, you will have some practice with Python and other resources to further your research.
November 20, 2015
Author:
Zawadi Rucks-Ahidiana
Coding is done, now what? You’ve finished coding your qualitative data and now it’s time to start the “analysis” process. Where do you start? Through this interactive workshop session, qualitative researchers will learn several approaches to transition from coding to analysis. Researchers in all phases of the qualitative research process are welcome to attend.
Workshop: QMG Presents: The Practice of Memoing
November 19, 2015
Join the Qualitative Methods Group (QMG) for a conversation with advanced graduate students Kara Young and Shelly Steward. Ms. Young and Ms. Steward will discuss how they use memoing during the data collection and analysis phases of their research.
Workshop: Text Analysis in R
November 19, 2015
Author:
Andrew Bertoli
This workshop will illustrate a variety of text analysis techniques using a database of New York Times articles. Familiarity with R will be helpful.
November 18, 2015
Author:
Andrew Chong
Need to move multiple data files with similar names to a different folder? Perform text replace functions in a large dataset or document? Get word counts of most frequently occurring words in a text?
November 18, 2015
Author:
Courtney Soderberg
Over the past few years there has been a growing concern about the reproducibility and replicability of scientific work. This has lead to calls for increased research transparency and sharing, and new funder and journal mandates related to openness and documentation.
November 18, 2015
Author:
Summer Starling
In this workshop, attendees will learn about the unique attributes of qualitative research as an applied social science method, the strengths and limitations of qualitative approach, and an introduction to what it means to code qualitative data.
November 17, 2015
Author:
Nathan Jones
Qualtrics is a powerful online tool available to Berkeley community members that can be used for a range of data collection activities like web surveys. This class will focus on survey implementation. Designing a questionnaire is major component of survey research, but how and when to contact sample members and how to follow up with non-responders are important research considerations. This
