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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: R Fundamentals: Part 1
August 20, 2019
Author:
Evan Muzzall
Workshop: GIS Fundamentals with QGIS: Part 2
August 20, 2019
Part 2: Working With Projections & Spatial Queries
Workshop: GIS Fundamentals with QGIS: Part 1
August 19, 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: Digital Humanities Lecture: Bryan Wagner
August 15, 2019
Author:
Bryan Wagner
Bryan Wagner is an Associate Professor in the English Department at UC Berkeley. He received a PhD in English from the University of Virginia before coming to Berkeley in 2002. His research focuses on African American expression in the context of slavery and its aftermath, and he has secondary interests in legal history and popular music.
Workshop: Digital Humanities Lecture: Tom McEnaney
August 13, 2019
Tom McEnaney works on the history of media and technology, Argentine, Cuban, and U.S. literature, sound studies, linguistic anthropology, computational (digital) humanities and new media studies.
Workshop: PRIVATE! Python Fundamentals: Part 4
August 8, 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: PRIVATE! Python Fundamentals: Part 3
August 7, 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: PRIVATE! Python Fundamentals: Part 2
August 6, 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: PRIVATE! Python Fundamentals: Part 1
August 5, 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: PRIVATE! Python Fundamentals: Part 4
July 18, 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: PRIVATE! Python Fundamentals: Part 3
July 17, 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: PRIVATE! Python Fundamentals: Part 2
July 16, 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: PRIVATE! Python Fundamentals: Part 1
July 15, 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: CANCELLED! Machine Learning in Python
July 8, 2019
Author:
Emily Grabowski
** This workshop has been cancelled and will be rescheduled.**
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: Intermediate Tableau
May 23, 2019
Author:
Kari Peterson
Take your visualization to the next level. We'll review:
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Joining vs Blending
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Parameters
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Containers in dashboards
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Stories
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Actions
Workshop: Python Fundamentals: Part 4
May 16, 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: Machine Learning in Python
May 16, 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: Python Fundamentals: Part 3
May 15, 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: Stata Fundamentals: Part 3
May 15, 2019
Author:
Véronique Irwin
This three-part series will cover the following materials:
Part 1: Introduction
Workshop: Python Fundamentals: Part 2
May 14, 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 2 Topics:
