Past Workshops

CANCELED: Python Data Wrangling and Manipulation with Pandas

November 29, 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 CANCELED: Python Data Wrangling and Manipulation with Pandas

CANCELED: R Geospatial Fundamentals: Raster Data

November 29, 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 CANCELED: R Geospatial Fundamentals: Raster Data

R Machine Learning with tidymodels: Parts 1-2

November 29, 2022
Machine learning often evokes images of Skynet, self-driving cars, and computerized homes. However, these ideas are less science fiction as they are tangible phenomena that are predicated on description, classification, prediction, and pattern recognition in data. During this two part workshop, we...Read more about R Machine Learning with tidymodels: Parts 1-2

CANCELED: Python Text Analysis: Word Embeddings

November 17, 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 CANCELED: Python Text Analysis: Word Embeddings

CANCELED: QGIS Geospatial Fundamentals: Parts 1-2

November 15, 2022
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 CANCELED: QGIS Geospatial Fundamentals: Parts 1-2

CANCELED: Python Text Analysis: Topic Modeling

November 15, 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 CANCELED: Python Text Analysis: Topic Modeling

CANCELED: MaxQDA: Introduction

November 15, 2022
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 CANCELED: MaxQDA: Introduction

CANCELED: Python Machine Learning Fundamentals: Parts 1-2

November 14, 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 CANCELED: Python Machine Learning Fundamentals: Parts 1-2

CANCELED: R Geospatial Fundamentals: Vector Data, Parts 1-2

November 14, 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 CANCELED: R Geospatial Fundamentals: Vector Data, Parts 1-2

Python Geospatial Data and Mapping: Parts 1-2

November 8, 2022
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 Data and Mapping: Parts 1-2

R Data Visualization

November 7, 2022
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

Institutional Review Board (IRB) Fundamentals

November 7, 2022
Are you starting a research project at UC Berkeley that involves human subjects? If so, one of the first steps you will need to take is getting IRB approval.Read more about Institutional Review Board (IRB) Fundamentals

Python Fundamentals: Parts 1-4

November 7, 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

Python Web Scraping & APIs

November 2, 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 & APIs

Finding Health Statistics and Data

November 2, 2022
Participants in this workshop will learn about some of the issues surrounding the collection of health statistics, and will also learn about authoritative sources of health statistics and data. We will look at tools that let you create custom tables of vital statistics (birth, death, etc.), disease...Read more about Finding Health Statistics and Data

R Data Wrangling and Manipulation: Parts 1-2

November 1, 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

Python Text Analysis Fundamentals: Parts 1-2

November 1, 2022
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.Read more about Python Text Analysis Fundamentals: Parts 1-2

Python Visualization

October 26, 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

Stata Fundamentals: Parts 1-3

October 26, 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

Python Data Wrangling and Manipulation with Pandas

October 24, 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

Qualtrics Fundamentals

October 19, 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

Bash + Git: Introduction

October 19, 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 Bash + Git: Introduction

R Fundamentals: Parts 1-4

October 18, 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 Deep Learning: Parts 1-2

October 17, 2022
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 Fundamentals: Parts 1-4

October 11, 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