Past Workshops

Python Visualization

September 30, 2021
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 Visualization

Stata Fundamentals: Parts 1-3

September 28, 2021
This workshop is a three-part introductory series that will teach you Stata from scratch with clear introductions, concise examples, and support documents. You will learn how to download and install the Stata software, understand data and basic manipulations, import and subset data, explore and...Read more about Stata Fundamentals: Parts 1-3

Python Introduction to Machine Learning: Parts 1-2

September 27, 2021
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 Introduction to Machine Learning: Parts 1-2

Qualtrics Fundamentals

September 22, 2021
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 Text Analysis Fundamentals: Parts 1-3

September 21, 2021
This three-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.Read more about Python Text Analysis Fundamentals: Parts 1-3

Python Data Wrangling and Manipulation with Pandas

September 20, 2021
Pandas is a Python package that provides fast, flexible, and expressive data structures designed to make working with 'relational' or 'labeled' data both easy and intuitive. It enables doing practical, real world data analysis in Python. In this workshop, we'll work with example data and go through...Read more about Python Data Wrangling and Manipulation with Pandas

R Data Wrangling and Manipulation

September 17, 2021
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

Geospatial Fundamentals with QGIS: Parts 1-2

September 17, 2021
This workshop will introduce methods for working with geospatial data in QGIS, a popular open-source desktop GIS program that runs on both PCs and Macs as well as linux computers. Participants will learn how to load, query and visualize point, line and polygon data. We will also introduce basic...Read more about Geospatial Fundamentals with QGIS: Parts 1-2

Stata Fundamentals: Parts 1-3

September 8, 2021
This workshop is a three-part introductory series that will teach you Stata from scratch with clear introductions, concise examples, and support documents. You will learn how to download and install the Stata software, understand data and basic manipulations, import and subset data, explore and...Read more about Stata Fundamentals: Parts 1-3

Python Fundamentals: Parts 1-4

September 7, 2021
This four-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 1-4

R Fundamentals: Parts 1-4

September 7, 2021
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

R Bootcamp: Fall 2021

August 21, 2021
The workshop will be an intensive two-day introduction to R using RStudio. After the first morning session, the workshop will (staffing permitting) be split into two separate tracks. Co-sponsored by the UC Berkeley Statistics Department and the D-Lab.Read more about R Bootcamp: Fall 2021

Python Fundamentals: Parts 1-4

August 19, 2021
This four-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 1-4

R Fundamentals: Parts 1-4

August 19, 2021
Data are the foundations of the social and biological sciences and humanities. Familiarizing yourself with a programming language can help you better understand the roles that data play in your field. This workshop will teach you to use base R to build a programming vocabulary to develop and train...Read more about R Fundamentals: Parts 1-4