This is a six-hour tutorial on machine learning in R that covers data preprocessing, cross-validation, ordinary least squares regression, lasso, decision trees, random forest, xgboost, and superlearner algorithms.
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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.
October 15, 2019
Author:
Evan Muzzall
Workshop: Geospatial Data in R: Part 1
October 15, 2019
Author:
Drew Hart
Geospatial data are an important component of social science and humanities data visualization and analysis. 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
October 11, 2019
Author:
Pelagie Elimbi Moudio
This workshop will be rescheduled to a later date. Please check the calendar for updates!
Working Group Session: Faces of African American Muslims Study Jam
October 10, 2019
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Working Group Session: Berkeley Undergraduate Digital Humanities Association (BUDHA) Working Group
October 10, 2019
Author:
Aubrey Ross
The Berkeley Undergraduate Digital Humanities Association (BUDHA) is a diverse community of students, faculty, and staff on the UC Berkeley campus that connects undergraduates with the emerging interdisciplinary field of Digital Humanities (DH).
Working Group Session: Berkeley Digital Humanities Working Group
October 10, 2019
Author:
Stacy Reardon, Adam G. Anderson
The Berkeley Digital Humanities Working Group began in 2011 as a place to facilitate interdisciplinary conversations around topics in the Digital Humanities (broadly defined). We welcome participants from all disciplinary backgrounds, beginners and experts in digital skills, students, faculty, and staff. The agenda for our biweekly meetings is participant driven, and we typically hold a varie
Workshop: Introduction to Qualtrics (CANCELED)
October 10, 2019
This workshop will be rescheduled to a later date. Please check the calendar for updates!
Workshop: Design Your Research (CANCELED)
October 10, 2019
Author:
Simal Ozen Irmak
This workshop will be rescheduled to a later date. Please check the calendar for updates!
Working Group Session: Somali, Ethiopian, Eritrean, South Sudanese, Sudanese Student Association (SEE§A)
October 8, 2019
Author:
Afrah Tahir, Lina Kamil
The Somali, Ethiopian, Eritrean, South Sudanese, Sudanese Student Association (SEE§A) (formerly as Horn of Africa Student Association) is a student-based organization that focuses on the further academic, professional, social, and cultural advancement of Somali, Ethiopian, Eritrean, South Sudan and Sudanese identifying students on the University of California, Berkeley campus.
Working Group Session: Critical University Studies Working Group (CUSWG)
October 8, 2019
Author:
Rachel Roberson
The Critical University Studies (CUS) working group convenes and cultivates a critical scholarly community that contends with issues of power, race, and gender in higher education.
Workshop: Introduction to Pandas
October 4, 2019
Author:
Pelagie Elimbi Moudio
Pandas is a Python package providing fast, flexible, and expressive data structures designed to make working with 'relational' or 'labeled' data both easy and intuitive. It enables doing practical, real world data analysis in Python.
In this workshop, we'll work with example data and go through the various steps you might need to prepare data for analysis.
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Working Group Session: Data Scholars: Discovery
October 3, 2019
Working Group Session: Computational Text Analysis Working Group (CTAWG)
October 2, 2019
Author:
Ilya Akdemir, Adam G. Anderson
The Computational Text Analysis Working Group (CTAWG) features demos, tutorials, and ongoing projects through which we are learning to use an array of computational text analysis approaches including: topic modeling, TF-IDF, dictionary methods, supervised machine learning, cosine similarity scores, words-to-vectors, grammar parsing, regular expressions, and more.
Working Group Session: Power and Learning in Social Media Working Group
October 2, 2019
Author:
Cherise McBride
The power and learning in social media working group is an interdisciplinary group that exists to support researchers, practitioners, artists and anyone else interested in digital technologies, sociocultural dimensions of learning, and critical race perspectives on social media activity.
Working Group Session: Data Scholars: Pathways
October 1, 2019
Working Group Session: Data Scholars: Foundations
October 1, 2019
Working Group Session: Securing Research Data Working Group
September 30, 2019
Author:
Aaron Culich, Rick Jaffe
The goal of this working group is to understand issues around sensitive/restricted use research data from a variety of views - especially from the perspective of Berkeley researchers who need and use such data and the staff and units who support that.
Workshop: Tableau Bootcamp
September 30, 2019
Author:
Kari Peterson
Tableau Bootcamp
Add data visualization to your communication toolbox without learning to code. Tableau cuts down the time you need to spend creating visualizations through an intuitive graphical user interface. Learn the basics in this hands-on workshop.
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No prerequisites
Workshop: LaTeX Fundamentals: Part 2
September 27, 2019
Author:
Maura Lievano
LaTeX is a widely used document creation software which can help you improve the presentation of homework, papers, academic articles and even presentations.
Working Group Session: Berkeley Undergraduate Digital Humanities Association (BUDHA) Working Group
September 26, 2019
Author:
Aubrey Ross
The Berkeley Undergraduate Digital Humanities Association (BUDHA) is a diverse community of students, faculty, and staff on the UC Berkeley campus that connects undergraduates with the emerging interdisciplinary field of Digital Humanities (DH).
