Past Workshops
Python Fundamentals: Parts 4-6
January 27, 2025
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...Read more about Python Fundamentals: Parts 4-6
R Fundamentals: Parts 1-4
January 13, 2025
This workshop is a four-part introductory series that will teach you R from scratch with clear introductions, concise examples, and support documents. You will learn how to download and install the open-sourced R Studio software, understand data and basic manipulations, import and subset data,...Read more about R Fundamentals: Parts 1-4
Python Fundamentals: Parts 1-3
January 13, 2025
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...Read more about Python Fundamentals: Parts 1-3
LLMs for Exploratory Research
December 10, 2024
In a fast evolving artificial intelligence landscape, LLMs such as GPT have become a common buzzword. In the research community, their advantages and pitfalls are hotly debated. In this workshop, we will explore different chatbots powered by LLMs, beyond just ChatGPT. Our main goal will be to...Read more about LLMs for Exploratory Research
Cloud SQL Databases for Social Media Data
December 10, 2024
This is a hands-on workshop on analyzing Social Media Data using Cloud Databases, specifically Google Cloud Platform's BigQuery. In this session, you'll learn how to leverage existing Reddit and other publicly available datasets in the cloud, import additional data, and perform meaningful analyses...Read more about Cloud SQL Databases for Social Media Data
Command Line Fundamentals
December 10, 2024
In this workshop, we provide a basic introduction to how to interact with your computer via terminal. We are going to focus on Bash (Bourne-Again Shell) or Zsh (Z Shell), which are one of the most commonly used Unix/Linux shells.Read more about Command Line Fundamentals
Python Fundamentals: Parts 1-3
December 9, 2024
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...Read more about Python Fundamentals: Parts 1-3
SQL Database Fundamentals for Data Analysis
December 9, 2024
This workshop introduces the fundamentals of SQL, with a focus on using SQLite (the most ubiquitous database on the planet) for data science tasks. We'll explore how SQL can be used to query and manipulate relational databases. This hands-on workshop includes exercises based on real-world datasets.Read more about SQL Database Fundamentals for Data Analysis
R Fundamentals: Parts 1-4
December 9, 2024
This workshop is a four-part introductory series that will teach you R from scratch with clear introductions, concise examples, and support documents. You will learn how to download and install the open-sourced R Studio software, understand data and basic manipulations, import and subset data,...Read more about R Fundamentals: Parts 1-4
Digital Humanities Working Group (December 2024)
December 2, 2024
The UC Berkeley Digital Humanities Working Group is a research community founded to facilitate interdisciplinary conversations in the digital humanities and cultural analytics. Our gatherings are participant driven and provide a place for sharing research ideas (including brainstorming new ideas...Read more about Digital Humanities Working Group (December 2024)
R Census Data Fundamentals
November 25, 2024
In this workshop, we provide an overview of conducting U.S. Census data analysis and visualization in R. First, we’ll cover the basic concepts of U.S. Census Data. Then, we’ll demonstrate how to call the census data API directly from R by using the R tidycensus package.Read more about R Census Data Fundamentals
Python Machine Learning Fundamentals: Parts 1-2
November 19, 2024
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...Read more about Python Machine Learning Fundamentals: Parts 1-2
R Copilot Assisted Coding Workshop
November 19, 2024
This workshop provides a beginner-friendly introduction to coding with GitHub Copilot, a popular AI coding assistant. We will start from the basics so you can take advantage of AI assistants to improve your coding and avoid common pitfalls. First, we’ll cover how to install and set-up Visual Studio...Read more about R Copilot Assisted Coding Workshop
R Data Wrangling and Manipulation: Parts 1-2
November 18, 2024
It is said that 80% of data analysis is spent on the process of cleaning and preparing the data for exploration, visualization, and analysis. This R workshop will introduce the dplyr and tidyr packages to make data wrangling and manipulation easier. Participants will learn how to use these packages...Read more about R Data Wrangling and Manipulation: Parts 1-2
Python Deep Learning: Parts 1-2
November 18, 2024
The goal of this workshop is to build intuition for deep learning by building, training, and testing models in Python. Rather than a theory-centered approach, we will evaluate deep learning models through empirical results.Read more about Python Deep Learning: Parts 1-2
Python Data Visualization: Parts 1-2
November 13, 2024
For this workshop, we'll provide an introduction to visualization with Python. We'll cover visualization theory and plotting with Matplotlib and Seaborn, working through examples in a Jupyter notebook.Read more about Python Data Visualization: Parts 1-2
R Data Visualization
November 5, 2024
This workshop will provide an introduction to graphics in R with ggplot2. Participants will learn how to construct, customize, and export a variety of plot types in order to visualize relationships in data. We will also explore the basic grammar of graphics, including the aesthetics and geometry...Read more about R Data Visualization
Digital Humanities Working Group (November 2024)
November 4, 2024
The UC Berkeley Digital Humanities Working Group is a research community founded to facilitate interdisciplinary conversations in the digital humanities and cultural analytics. Our gatherings are participant driven and provide a place for sharing research ideas (including brainstorming new ideas...Read more about Digital Humanities Working Group (November 2024)
Python Fundamentals: Parts 4-6
November 4, 2024
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...Read more about Python Fundamentals: Parts 4-6
Python Geospatial Fundamentals: Parts 1-2
November 4, 2024
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.Read more about Python Geospatial Fundamentals: Parts 1-2
R Data Visualization
October 28, 2024
This workshop will provide an introduction to graphics in R with ggplot2. Participants will learn how to construct, customize, and export a variety of plot types in order to visualize relationships in data. We will also explore the basic grammar of graphics, including the aesthetics and geometry...Read more about R Data Visualization
Qualtrics Fundamentals
October 25, 2024
Qualtrics is a powerful online tool available to Berkeley community members that can be used for a range of data collection activities. Primarily, Qualtrics is designed to make web surveys easy to write, test, and implement, but the software can be used for data entry, training, quality control,...Read more about Qualtrics Fundamentals
Python Web Scraping
October 24, 2024
In this workshop, we cover how to scrape data from the web using Python. Web scraping involves downloading a webpage's source code and sifting through the material to extract desired data.Read more about Python Web Scraping
Python Web APIs
October 22, 2024
In this workshop, we cover how to extract data from the web with APIs using Python. APIs are often official services offered by companies and other entities, which allow you to directly query their servers in order to retrieve their data. Platforms like The New York Times, Twitter and Reddit offer...Read more about Python Web APIs
MAXQDA Fundamentals
October 18, 2024
This two-hour introductory workshop will teach you MaxQDA from scratch with clear introductions, concise examples, and support documents. You will learn how to download and install the MaxQDA software, upload multiple forms of data then how to use manual and autocode features. We will review some...Read more about MAXQDA Fundamentals
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