Python

Kellie Hogue

Consultant
Institute for Governmental Studies

Kellie's recent research varies widely and has included topics such as mental health, hair discrimination, racial equity, millennial voters, implicit bias, sober living, and tax reform. Formally trained in Ethnic Studies, African American Studies, Native American Studies, American Studies and Anthropology, Kellie effectively combines qualitative and quantitative approaches and methodologies to provide optimal research solutions for a legislative and gubernatorial clientele. Kellie is also a Visiting Scholar at the Institute of Governmental Studies, University of California, Berkeley...

Python Fundamentals: Parts 1-3

April 29, 2024, 2:00pm
This three-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.

GPT Fundamentals

April 17, 2024, 3:00pm
This workshop offers a general introduction to the GPT (Generative Pretrained Transformers) model. We will explore how they reflect and shape our cultural narratives and social interactions, and which drawbacks and constraints they have.

Python Text Analysis Fundamentals: Parts 1-2

March 21, 2024, 10:00am
This two-part workshop series will prepare participants to move forward with research that uses text analysis, with a special focus on humanities and social science applications.

Python Machine Learning Fundamentals: Parts 1-2

April 16, 2024, 2:00pm
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. No theory instruction will be provided.

Python Text Analysis: Word Embeddings

April 11, 2024, 10:00am
How can we use neural networks to create meaningful representations of words? The bag-of-words is limited in its ability to characterize text, because it does not utilize word context.

Python Text Analysis: Topic Modeling

April 4, 2024, 10:00am
In this part, we study unsupervised learning of text data. This is a stand alone work that builds from the two-part text analysis series.

Python Geospatial Fundamentals: Parts 1-2

April 2, 2024, 4:00pm
Geospatial data are an important component of data visualization and analysis in the social sciences, humanities, and elsewhere. The Python programming language is a great platform for exploring these data and integrating them into your research.

Python Intermediate: Parts 1-3

April 2, 2024, 10:00am
This three-part interactive workshop series teaches you intermediate programming Python for people with previous programming experience equivalent to our Python Fundamentals workshop. 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.

Jailynne Estevez

Consulting Drop-In Hours: Fri 3pm-5pm

Consulting Areas: Python, SQL, Stata, HTML / CSS, Javascript, Google AppScripts, Databases & SQL, Data Manipulation and Cleaning, Data Science, Data Sources, Data Visualization, Python Programming, Surveys, Sampling & Interviews, Text Analysis, , Bash or Command Line, Excel, Git or Github, Stata

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