CSSCR Winter Quarter Course/Workshop Offerings
Posted: 1/9/2018 (Local Events)
Below you will find the listing of workshops offered by Center for Social Science Computation and Research (CSSCR) during the first part of the quarter.
We are developing a few new workshops given we have a set of new consultants this year with new programming talents but we will still continue to offer our old standby courses as well.
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Short Course/Workshop Offerings Winter Quarter Part I (listed in order of scheduled appearance)
Introduction to R with RStudio
Description:
This class will teach you how to get started with R using the free integrated development environment called Rstudio. The course will cover the basic organization of R and RStudio, where to find good help references, and how to begin a basic analysis. This class is ideal for users who have little or no experience with R.
Instructor: Yunkang Yang, CSSCR Consultant
Date: Thursday, 11 January 2018
Time: 10:30am – 11:30am
Place: Savery 121
Register here.
Introduction to Qualitative Research and ATLAS.ti
Description:
This course provides a brief, practical introduction to working in ATLAS.ti, covering basic terminology and functionality of the program. This will include importing text documents, coding and annotating documents, and exploring relationships through analysis and query tools. Time permitting, we may also briefly discuss best practices for data management. The course assumes no prior use of Atlas-ti.
Instructor: Riddhi Mehta-Neugebauer, CSSCR Consultant
Date: Tuesday, 16 January 2018
Time: 3:30pm – 4:30pm
Place: Savery 121
Register here.
Introduction to using MATLAB
Description:
This course provides a first look at MATLAB, a high-performance language for technical computing. MATLAB integrates computation, visualization, and programming in an easy-to-use environment.
Instructor: Jasmine Jiang, CSSCR Consultant
Date: Wednesday, 17 January 2018
Time: 10:30am – 11:30am
Place: Savery 121
Introduction to GIS
Description:
This course will provide students with a broad overview of what geographic information systems (GISs) are and how social scientists can benefit from using them in their research. Students will explore basic GIS concepts through hands-on exercises using ArcGIS, a widely used GIS software package, as well as freely available data sets.
Instructor: Will Brown, CSSCR Consultant
Date: Monday, 22 January 2018
Time: 2:30pm – 3:20pm
Place: Savery 117
Register here.
Introduction to STATA
Description:
This course will introduce you to the basic Stata statistical package including reading in STATA datasets, basic data manipulation in Stata, and common statistical procedures.
Instructor: Stephanie Lee, CSSCR Consultant
Date: Monday, 29 January 2018
Time: 12:30pm – 1:30pm
Place: Savery 117
Register here.
Introduction to SPSS
Description:
This courses introduces the SPSS package including reading in datafiles as well as basic data management and introductory statistical procedures. Additional topics include computing and recoding variables and selecting and filtering cases.
Instructor: Galen Kerrick, CSSCR Consultant
Date: Thursday 1 February 2018
Time: 12:30pm – 1:30pm
Place: Savery 121
Register here.