Several upcoming workshops and classes will be held Spring Quarter at the University of Washington, focusing on students needing R or Stata introductions, as well as another round of the popular Community Data Science Workshops. Details are below.
Classes
The Center for Social Science Computation and Research has posted their Spring Quarter classes, which includes Introduction to Stata, Introduction to R with R Studio, and Introduction to R with Commander. Students will learn basics software organization, where to find help, and how to get started with basic analyses. No previous experience in statistical programming is necessary, but basic understanding of statistics will be helpful.
Workshops
The Spring 2016 round of the Community Data Science Workshops are for anyone interested in learning how to use programming and data science
tools to ask and answer questions about online communities like Wikipedia, free
and open source software, Twitter, civic media, etc. The Spring 2016 series consists of one Friday evening and three Saturday sessions in April and May. The workshops are for people with no previous programming
experience and, thanks to sponsorship from eScience and the Department of
Communication, are free of charge and open to anyone.
Our goal is that, after the three workshops, participants
will be able to use data to produce numbers, hypothesis tests, tables, and
graphical visualizations to answer questions like:
- Are new contributors to an article in Wikipedia
sticking around longer or
contributing more than people who joined last year?
- Who are the most active or influential users of a
particular Twitter hashtag?
- Are people who participated in a Wikipedia outreach
event staying involved? How do
they compare to people that joined the project outside of the
event?
Details and dates are online here:
If you are interested in participating, please fill out
our registration at the link above before Saturday April 2. Register soon!
If you already know how to program in Python, it would be
really awesome if you would volunteer as a mentor! Being a mentor involves
working with participants and talking them through the challenges they
encounter in programming. No special preparation is required. If you’re interested,
there’s a link on the page above, or you can send me an email. If you mentored
before, it’s still easier if you fill our form again. Thanks!
Regards,
Mako (On behalf of Jonathan, Tommy, Dharma, Ben, Mika,
and all the CDSW
mentors.)
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