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. The focus will be on U.S.
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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.
Workshop: Finding Health Statistics and Data
September 26, 2019
Author:
Michael Sholinbeck
Workshop: GIS Fundamentals with QGIS: Part 2
September 26, 2019
Part 2: Working With Projections & Spatial Queries
Working Group Session: Digital Humanities Mixer
September 25, 2019
Author:
Stacy Reardon, Adam G. Anderson
Kick off the Fall semester at the Digital Humanities Mixer! This will be an informal opportunity to network with other faculty, staff, and students interested in digital humanities. All are welcome.
September 25, 2019
Author:
Rachael Samberg
This training will help you navigate the copyright, fair use, and usage rights of including third-party content in your digital project.
Working Group Session: Somali, Ethiopian, Eritrean, South Sudanese, Sudanese Student Association (SEE§A)
September 24, 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: LaTeX Fundamentals: Part 1
September 24, 2019
Author:
Isabelle Cohen
LaTeX is a widely used document creation software which can help you improve the presentation of homework, papers, academic articles and even presentations.
Workshop: GIS Fundamentals with QGIS: Part 1
September 24, 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.
Workshop: NIH Grant Writing Workshop
September 19, 2019
Author:
Leora Lawton
This workshop will be open to anyone interested in having the guidance, feedback and structure for writing a grant. Potential participants could be faculty who have not written an NIH grant before, postdocs or adjunct faculty, advanced graduate students, or even early stage graduate students who want to put together a dissertation grant.
Workshop: R Graphics with ggplot2
September 17, 2019
Author:
Adam Bouyamourn
This workshop will provide a comprehensive overview of graphics in R, including base graphics and ggplot2. Participants will learn how to construct, customize, and export a variety of plot types in order to visualize relationships in data.
September 17, 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
Workshop: Web Platforms for Digital Projects
September 16, 2019
Author:
Stacy Reardon
How do you go about publishing a digital book, a multimedia project, a digital exhibit, or another kind of digital project? In this workshop, we'll take a look at use cases for common open-source web platforms WordPress, Drupal, Omeka, and Scalar, and we'll talk about hosting, storage, and asset management. There will be time for hands-on work in the platform most suited to your needs.
September 16, 2019
Author:
Kate Beck
Crowdsourcing is a method increasingly used in qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-methods research. However, many researchers remain unclear about what this method is, when it may be appropriate to use, and how it could be implemented.
Workshop: Stata Fundamentals: Part 3
September 13, 2019
Author:
Véronique Irwin
This three-part series will cover the following materials:
Part 1: Introduction
Workshop: Python Fundamentals: Part 4
September 13, 2019
Author:
Evan Muzzall
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: R Fundamentals: Part 4
September 12, 2019
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: Stata Fundamentals: Part 2
September 11, 2019
Author:
Isabelle Cohen
This three-part series will cover the following materials:
Part 1: Introduction
Workshop: Python Fundamentals: Part 3
September 11, 2019
Author:
Evan Muzzall
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
September 10, 2019
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: Stata Fundamentals: Part 1
September 9, 2019
Author:
Hero Ashman
This three-part series will cover the following materials:
Part 1: Introduction
Workshop: MEng R Bootcamp
September 7, 2019 to September 8, 2019
Author:
Chris Paciorek
