Past Workshops

R Data Wrangling and Manipulation: Parts 1-2

September 12, 2022
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

Excel Data Analysis: Introduction

September 7, 2022
This is a three-hour introductory workshop that will provide an overview of Excel, with no prior experience assumed. Attendees will learn how to use functions for handling data and making calculations, how to build charts and pivot tables, and more.Read more about Excel Data Analysis: Introduction

Python Fundamentals: Parts 1-4

August 15, 2022
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 15, 2022
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

Stata Fundamentals: Parts 1-3

August 15, 2022
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

Public Talk: Teaching Bias through Word Embeddings

May 16, 2022
This talk by guest speaker, Tom van Nuenen, discusses findings from the Discovering and Attesting Digital Discrimination project which focuses on biases in Machine Learning which proposed a data-driven approach to discover language biases encoded in the vocabulary of discourse communities on social...Read more about Public Talk: Teaching Bias through Word Embeddings

UC Berkeley Digital Humanities Fair

May 3, 2022
The UC Berkeley Digital Humanities Fair is an annual event that offers the UC Berkeley community and beyond the opportunity to share projects at various stages of development, receive invaluable feedback from peers, and reflect on the field more broadly.Read more about UC Berkeley Digital Humanities Fair

Infosession: D-Lab Data Science Fellowship

May 2, 2022
The D-Lab is seeking applications for the 2022-2023 cohort of Data Science Fellows. This infosession will give you an in-depth look at the D-Lab Data Science Fellowship and an opportunity for you to ask questions about the program that may be helpful to your application process to become a Fellow!Read more about Infosession: D-Lab Data Science Fellowship

R Fundamentals: Parts 1-4

May 2, 2022
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 1-4

May 2, 2022
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

Data Science + Social Justice Workshop (Apply by May 1)

May 1, 2022
This 6-week workshop will give you the opportunity to learn the essential tools and methods for data science analysis and be introduced to critical frameworks that will enable you to create a project of your own design and to tell stories that can counter the market-first mentality of data science.Read more about Data Science + Social Justice Workshop (Apply by May 1)

Python Introduction to Machine Learning: Parts 1-2

April 25, 2022
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

April 21, 2022
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

Introduction to Bash + Git

April 21, 2022
This workshop will start by introducing you to navigating your computer’s file system and basic Bash commands to remove the fear of working with the command line and to give you the confidence to use it to increase your productivity. And then working with Git, a powerful tool for keeping track of...Read more about Introduction to Bash + Git

Python Visualization

April 20, 2022
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

Excel Data Analysis: Charts, Pivot Tables, and VLOOKUP

April 20, 2022
This two-hour workshop will cover charts in more detail, review pivot tables, and the widely-used VLOOKUP function. We recommend first taking the introductory workshop Excel Data Analysis.Read more about Excel Data Analysis: Charts, Pivot Tables, and VLOOKUP

Python Data Wrangling and Manipulation with Pandas

April 18, 2022
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

Python Text Analysis: Topic Modeling

April 13, 2022
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.Read more about Python Text Analysis: Topic Modeling

Excel Data Analysis

April 13, 2022
This is a three-hour introductory workshop that will provide an overview of Excel, with no prior experience assumed. Attendees will learn how to use functions for handling data and making calculations, how to build charts and pivot tables, and more.Read more about Excel Data Analysis

R Geospatial Fundamentals: Raster Data

April 12, 2022
Geospatial data are an important component of data visualization and analysis in the social sciences, humanities, and elsewhere. The R programming language is a great platform for exploring these data and integrating them into your research. This workshop focuses on fundamental operations for...Read more about R Geospatial Fundamentals: Raster Data

Python Text Analysis: Word Embeddings

April 6, 2022
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.Read more about Python Text Analysis: Word Embeddings

R Geospatial Fundamentals: Vector Data, Parts 1-2

April 5, 2022
Geospatial data are an important component of data visualization and analysis in the social sciences, humanities, and elsewhere. The R programming language is a great platform for exploring these data and integrating them into your research. This workshop focuses on fundamental operations for...Read more about R Geospatial Fundamentals: Vector Data, Parts 1-2

Python Web Scraping

April 5, 2022
In this workshop, we cover how to extract data from the web using Python. We focus on two approaches to extracting data from the web: leveraging application programming interfaces (APIs) and web scraping.Read more about Python Web Scraping

Python Fundamentals: Parts 1-4

April 5, 2022
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

April 4, 2022
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