Workshops – Archived

Registration Closed |  Please Read Instructions Topics covered in this Workshop: The Unix shell Version control with git Programming with R Since the goal of this workshop is to bring you up to speed with data analysis, it would be incomplete without instruction on a shell as well as a version control system. The shell is important in building reproducible data analysis pipelines where your R scripts may be just one component, Git is...

Register Now This Bash, Python, and git workshop is capped at 35 participants, and is on a first-come/first-served basis. If you are looking to make yourself competitive in the job market If you want to take a personal project to the next level If you are interested in learning programming for data analysis Then, this workshop is for you. Our trained instructors will lead you through a comprehensive, hands-on overview of an...

Register Now This Bash, Python, and git workshop is capped at 24 participants, and is on a first-come/ first-served basis. If you are looking to make yourself competitive in the job market If you want to take a personal project to the next level If you are interested in learning programming for data analysis Then, this workshop is for you. Our trained instructors will lead you through a comprehensive, hands-on overview of an...

Register Now Open to UM Faculty/Staff/Students This workshop introduces participants to techniques for cleaning and transforming data with OpenRefine and Microsoft Excel. Sometimes datasets are created by multiple individuals, and/or created without a clear set of guidelines. The resulting datasets may be difficult to analyze because they lack standardization (i.e., New York City may be listed as “NYC,” “New York, NY”, “New York...

Monday, March 19, 2018  |  12:00-1:00 PM McArthur Engineering Annex, MEA 202 Speaker:  Athina Hadjixenofontos, PhD  |  CCS Director of Engagement In this session, we will examine the opportunities for decision making while building a data analysis pipeline and follow the consequences of those decisions for the interpretability of the results. In addition, we will dive into examples of various types of bias, as well as examples of...