June 2022
Version Control and Collaboration with Git and GitHub (Online)
This course will be offered via Zoom, over two mornings. Attendance is required as the course will not be recorded. In this course, participants will learn how to keep track of the code they use in their research using the version control system Git and the collaboration platform GitHub. Git allows you to keep track of changes to your code, easily revert to previous versions, and “tag” versions of code used in publications so that the exact code…
Find out more »Version Control and Collaboration with Git and GitHub (Online)
This course will be offered via Zoom, over two mornings. Attendance is required as the course will not be recorded. In this course, participants will learn how to keep track of the code they use in their research using the version control system Git and the collaboration platform GitHub. Git allows you to keep track of changes to your code, easily revert to previous versions, and “tag” versions of code used in publications so that the exact code…
Find out more »July 2022
Census Data for Urban Studies (Online)
This course has been RESCHEDULED from its original date of June 1, 2022. It is now being held on July 6, 2022. This course is being offered in collaboration between the Odum Institute and the Center for Urban & Regional Studies. This one-day course will be offered via Zoom. Attendance is required as the course will not be recorded. In the past, working with US Census data in its various forms required gathering the data from numerous locations and using…
Find out more »Using the Twitter API for Research (online)
This half-day course will be offered via Zoom. Attendance is required as the course will not be recorded. In this course, participants will learn to use the Twitter Application Programming Interface to retrieve tweets for use in research. We will cover R packages to connect to the Twitter API, retrieve tweets from specific users or based on keywords, and extract follower networks (i.e. who follows who). Participants should register for a Twitter developer account at least a few…
Find out more »September 2022
TBA Data Science Course (Online)
This two-part course will cover four days total (9/20, 9/22, 10/4 and 10/6) and will be offered via Zoom. Attendance is required as the course will not be recorded. Description TBA Instructor: Yufeng Liu Yufeng Liu is currently professor in Department of Statistics and Operations Research, Department of Biostatistics, and Department of Genetics at UNC-Chapel Hill. His current research interests include statistical machine learning, high dimensional data analysis, personalized medicine, and bioinformatics. He has taught statistical machine learning courses…
Find out more »TBA Data Science Course (Online)
This two-part course will cover four days total (9/20, 9/22, 10/4 and 10/6) and will be offered via Zoom. Attendance is required as the course will not be recorded. Description TBA Instructor: Yufeng Liu Yufeng Liu is currently professor in Department of Statistics and Operations Research, Department of Biostatistics, and Department of Genetics at UNC-Chapel Hill. His current research interests include statistical machine learning, high dimensional data analysis, personalized medicine, and bioinformatics. He has taught statistical machine learning courses…
Find out more »October 2022
TBA Data Science Course (Online)
This two-part course will cover four days total (9/20, 9/22, 10/4 and 10/6) and will be offered via Zoom. Attendance is required as the course will not be recorded. Description TBA Instructor: Yufeng Liu Yufeng Liu is currently professor in Department of Statistics and Operations Research, Department of Biostatistics, and Department of Genetics at UNC-Chapel Hill. His current research interests include statistical machine learning, high dimensional data analysis, personalized medicine, and bioinformatics. He has taught statistical machine learning courses…
Find out more »TBA Data Science Course (Online)
This two-part course will cover four days total (9/20, 9/22, 10/4 and 10/6) and will be offered via Zoom. Attendance is required as the course will not be recorded. Description TBA Instructor: Yufeng Liu Yufeng Liu is currently professor in Department of Statistics and Operations Research, Department of Biostatistics, and Department of Genetics at UNC-Chapel Hill. His current research interests include statistical machine learning, high dimensional data analysis, personalized medicine, and bioinformatics. He has taught statistical machine learning courses…
Find out more »Social Network Analysis: Description and Inference (Online)
This one-day course will be offered via Zoom. Attendance is required as the course will not be recorded. This course will provide an introduction to descriptive and inferential network analysis. In the morning we will cover descriptive network analysis, including: terminology, data collection/management, position (e.g., centrality) analysis, visualization, and community detection. In the afternoon we will cover statistical network analysis. Do actor attributes such as gender, race, or political preferences salary predict tie formation in a network? Does…
Find out more »November 2022
Experience Sampling (tentative title) (Online)
This one-day course will be offered via Zoom. Attendance is required as the course will not be recorded. Description TBA Instructor: Katherine Cotter Bio TBA Registration fees UNC-CH Students: $0, with a $20 deposit to hold your spot (deposit is refundable upon your attendance for at least 66% of the course) UNC-CH Faculty/Staff/Postdoc/Residents/Visiting Scholars: $45 Non UNC-CH: $85 Additional course information: Registration opens September 9, 2022 and closes at 12:01am, November 7, 2022. Once registration closes, no…
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