Programming in R   Part of Data Matters: Data Science Short Course Series This class provides students with an introduction to basic programming techniques in R, a program with stronger object-oriented programming facilities than most statistical computing languages. The R … Read more

Introduction to Data Science Using R   Part of Data Matters: Data Science Short Course Series This course provides a basic introduction to the R software environment for the purpose of data science. The course covers importing and exporting data, … Read more

Data Wrangling: Day 2 Do you have data that you need to clean up and manipulate? Want to learn R? This two-day workshop will help you start working with data in R. (Familiarity with R is not required) Day 2 … Read more

Data Wrangling: Day 1 Do you have data that you need to clean up and manipulate? Want to learn R? This two-day workshop will help you start working with data in R. (Familiarity with R is not required) Day 1 … Read more

Applied Spatial Regression Analysis This short course provides an introduction to the field of spatial regression modeling. When analyzing data aggregated to geographic areas (e.g., census data for counties), a fresh set of issues arise that are not present in … Read more

Applied Spatial Regression Analysis   This short course provides an introduction to the field of spatial regression modeling. When analyzing data aggregated to geographic areas (e.g., census data for counties), a fresh set of issues arise that are not present … Read more

This class has been CANCELLED.   This workshop will cover strategies for obtaining visual displays of quantitative information. We will discuss ways to, quite literally, look at data and statistical models in pictorial form. This is important because graphical representations … Read more

ICPSR – Machine Learning for the Analysis of Text as Data   Quantitative analysis of digitized text represents an exciting and challenging frontier of data science across a broad spectrum of disciplines. From the analysis of physicians’ notes to identify … Read more