Data and Visualization Spring 2016 Workshops

SPRING 2016: Data and Visualization Workshops

Interested in getting started in data driven research or exploring a new approach to working with research data? Data and Visualization Services’ spring workshop series features a range of courses designed to showcase the latest data tools and methods. Begin working with data in our Basic Data Cleaning/Analysis or the new Structuring Humanities Data workshop. Explore data visualization in the Making Data Visual class. Our wide range of workshops offers a variety of approaches for the meeting the challenges of 21st century data driven research. Please join us!

Workshop by Theme

DATA SOURCES

Structuring Humanities Data (Feb2) – NEW *

Web Scraping and Gathering Data from Websites (Mar2, Mar 10)

DATA CLEANING AND ANALYSIS

OpenRefine: Data/Text Cleaning, Mining and Transformations (Jan20, Feb16) *

Regular Expressions (Feb 18) – NEW *

DATA ANALYSIS

Basic Data Cleaning and Analysis for Data Tables (Jan 22, Feb 10) *

Advanced Excel for Data Projects (Feb 1, Feb 23)

Introduction to Stata (Feb 2)

Analysis with R (Feb 24)

MAPPING AND GIS

Introduction to ArcGIS (Jan 27, Feb 25)

Introduction to QGIS (Feb 3) – NEW

Historical GIS (Jan 28)

ArcGIS Online (Feb 15)

DATA VISUALIZATION

Easy Interactive Charts and Maps with Tableau (Jan 25, Feb 11)

Making Data Visual (Jan 29) NEW *

Advanced Tableau (Data Structures) (Feb 17) NEW

Adobe Illustrator for Diagrams and Visualizations (Feb 22) NEW *

Designing Academic Figures and Posters (Mar 4) *

* – For these workshops, no prior experience with data projects is necessary! These workshops are great introductions to basic data practices.