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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.
Working Group Session: Critical University Studies Working Group (CUSWG)
November 6, 2019
Author:
Rachel Roberson
Working Group Session: Somali, Ethiopian, Eritrean, South Sudanese, Sudanese Student Association (SEE§A)
November 5, 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.
Workshop: Stata Fundamentals: Part 1
November 4, 2019
Author:
Hero Ashman
This three-part series will cover the following materials:
Part 1: Introduction
Workshop: Visualization in Excel
November 4, 2019
Author:
Salma Elmallah (duplicate)
In Visualization in Excel, we will cover the fundamentals of visualization in Excel, including a checklist of considerations that should go into every visualization. We will also go through step by step instructions on how to make horizontal bar charts, slope graphs, butterfly charts, the good kind of pie charts, icon arrays, and how to graph confidence intervals.
Workshop: Introduction to Scrivener
November 4, 2019
Author:
Celia Emmelhainz, Stacy Reardon
Come to this workshop to explore Scrivener, a software program that allows you to organize the many components of writing an academic paper, thesis, fiction book, or nonfiction book. This software can also be used to note ideas, outline, rearrange writing structures, and track changes as your ideas evolve.
Workshop: R Graphics with ggplot2
November 4, 2019
Author:
Evan Muzzall
This workshop will provide an introduction to graphics in R with ggplot2. Participants will learn how to construct, customize, and export a variety of plot types in order to visualize relationships in data. We will also explore the basic grammar of graphics, including the aesthetics and geometry layers, adding statistics, transforming scales, and coloring or panelling by groups.
Workshop: Spatial Data Fundamentals Workshop
November 2, 2019
Author:
Dr. Anibel Ferus-Comelo
Students will learn about the different ways in which entities in the real world are represented as geographic data. They will be introduced to QGIS, an open-source Geographic Information System (GIS) tool for working with geographic data.
Workshop: Python Fundamentals: Part 3
November 1, 2019
Author:
Drew Hart
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: Machine Learning in Python: Part 2
November 1, 2019
Author:
Emily Grabowski
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.
Workshop: Introduction to Questionnaire Design
October 31, 2019
Author:
Leora Lawton
Qualtrics is a powerful online tool available to Berkeley community members that can be used for a range of data collection activities including surveys, data entry, training, quality control, market research, event feedback. Following the general overview, this class will focus on questionnaire design using Qualtrics. This class will cover some best practices for designing questionnaires and
Working Group Session: Computational Text Analysis Working Group (CTAWG)
October 30, 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 30, 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.
Workshop: Stata Fundamentals: Part 3
October 30, 2019
Author:
Isabelle Cohen
This three-part series will cover the following materials:
Part 1: Introduction
Working Group Session: Somali, Ethiopian, Eritrean, South Sudanese, Sudanese Student Association (SEE§A)
October 29, 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.
Workshop: Basics of Excel: Part 2 (CANCELED)
October 28, 2019
Author:
Salma Elmallah (duplicate)
This class will cover the basics of Excel, from simple formulas (SUM, COUNTIF) to more complex Excel features like Macros and the Data Analysis ToolPak. By the end of both sections, students will be able to employ Excel skills to open source policy data sets. These skills are transferrable to any sector.
Topics Covered Will Include:
Working Group Session: Securing Research Data Working Group
October 28, 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.
October 28, 2019
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: Python Fundamentals: Part 2
October 25, 2019
Author:
Drew Hart
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: Machine Learning in Python: Part 1
October 25, 2019
Author:
Emily Grabowski
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.
Working Group Session: Berkeley Undergraduate Digital Humanities Association (BUDHA) Working Group
October 24, 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).
