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.
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Workshop: Python Fundamentals Part 4
January 17, 2020
Author:
Drew Hart
Workshop: R-Fundamentals Part 4
January 17, 2020
Author:
Evan Muzzall
R Fundamentals Part 4: Putting it all together
In the final part, we will review data importation, subsetting, and visualization. Students will then be given the majority of time to reproduce a workflow on two different datasets, ask questions, and review the solutions as a group.
Workshop: Python Fundamentals Part 3
January 16, 2020
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.
Part 3 Topics:
Workshop: R-Fundamentals Part 3
January 16, 2020
Author:
Evan Muzzall
R Fundamentals Part 3: Data Exploration and Analysis
Students will be introduced to data exploration and analysis in R. You will learn how to summarize data and explore it with histograms, scatterplots, and boxplots. You will also be introduced to coding statistical data analysis via t-tests, analyses of variance, correlation, and linear regression.
Workshop: Python Fundamentals Part 2
January 15, 2020
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.
Part 2 Topics:
Workshop: R-Fundamentals Part 2
January 15, 2020
Author:
Evan Muzzall
R Fundamentals Part 2: Subsetting and Reshaping
Workshop: Python Fundamentals Part 1
January 14, 2020
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.
Part 1 Topics:
Workshop: R-Fundamentals Part 1
January 14, 2020
Author:
Evan Muzzall
Data are the foundations of the social and biological sciences. Familiarizing yourself with a programming language can help you better understand the roles that data play in your field. Learn to develop and train your data skills for free at our R workshops!
December 18, 2019
Author:
Drew Hart
Raster data are used to represent geographic phenomena that are present and can be measured anywhere in a study area, like elevation, temperature, rainfall, land cover, soil type, etc. These data are a valuable resource for social scientists, planners, and engineers as well as natural scientists. This workshop will introduce basic raster concepts and methods for working with raster data in R.
Workshop: Geospatial Data in R: Part 2
December 17, 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 a research project.
Geospatial Data in R, part 2: Geoprocessing and analysis
Workshop: Geospatial Data in R: Part 1
December 16, 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
Workshop: Library Carpentry
December 16, 2019 to December 17, 2019
Author:
Scott Peterson
General Information
Library Carpentry is part of the Carpentries, and is made by people working in library- and information-related roles to help you:
Workshop: GIS Fundamentals with QGIS: Part 2
December 13, 2019
Part 2: Working With Projections & Spatial Queries
Workshop: Stata Fundamentals: Part 3
December 12, 2019
Author:
Véronique Irwin
This three-part series will cover the following materials:
Part 1: Introduction
Working Group Session: Computational Text Analysis Working Group (CTAWG)
December 11, 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.
Workshop: ArcGIS Online
December 11, 2019
This workshop will introduce ESRI's ArcGIS Online (AGOL), a web based platform for creating online maps, processing geospatial data and doing spatial analysis. Part 1 will provde a hands-on overview of uploading data to AGOL, creating web maps, and symbolizing mapped data by attribute values.
Workshop: Stata Fundamentals: Part 2
December 11, 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)
December 10, 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: Python Fundamentals Part 4
December 10, 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: GIS Fundamentals with QGIS: Part 1
December 10, 2019
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.
