Data Archive Event: Programming Pizza Party (R/Python)

Data Archive, 1120H Rolfe

Learning Python or R? Need dedicated practice time where you can ask questions? Like pizza? This 2-hour work session is designed to give people a chance to work on their Python/R projects alongside other beginners, and receive support from other users and our in-house experts. Bring your laptop, questions, and anything you are working on. Brought to you by the...

Data Archive Event: Data Cleaning with R

West Electronic Classroom (Room 23167), YRL

It's commonly said that data scientists spend 80% of their time cleaning and manipulating data and only 20% of their time actually analyzing it. For this reason, it is critical to become familiar with the data cleaning process and all of the tools available to you along the way. This course provides a very basic...

Winter Wednesday Workshops: Introduction to Statistical Software

Young Research Library, Research Commons (RC) Classroom Room 11630F, Young Research Library, Los Angeles

Wednesday, Feb 7, 2018 - 2:00pm to 4:00pm Research Library (Charles E. Young) Research Commons (RC) Classroom Christine Wells (Institute for Digital Research and Education), performs feats of fortitude, bending recalcitrant data to her will. Register

Data Archive Event: Data Sharing Bootcamp

Young Research Library, Main Conference Room 280 Charles E Young Dr N, Los Angeles, CA

Have you ever been asked to share your data by a journal editor or funder? Do you want to make your research more reproducible and data citable? This hands-on practical bootcamp will cover all of these topics and give you the skills to Comply with journal/funder data sharing policies Find relevant data repositories Upload your data into a...

Data Archive Event: Data Management & File Organization

Data Archive, 1120H Rolfe

Do you struggle with organizing your data? This workshop teaches practical techniques for organizing your data files. Topics include: common file organization errors  best practices for file organization

Winter Wednesday Workshops: Presentation Strategies and Tools

Young Research Library, Research Commons (RC) Classroom Room 11630F, Young Research Library, Los Angeles

Wednesday, Feb 14, 2018 - 11:30am to 1:00pm Research Library (Charles E. Young) Research Commons (RC) Classroom Joanna Chen Cham (Library) and Anthony Caldwell (HumTech/Library) team up to tackle Prezi, Keynote, Powerpoint — and get you thinking visually. Register

Winter Wednesday Workshops: Introduction to Research Data Management

Young Research Library, Research Commons (RC) Classroom Room 11630F, Young Research Library, Los Angeles

Wednesday, Feb 14, 2018 - 2:00pm to 4:00pm Research Library (Charles E. Young) Research Commons (RC) Classroom The focus of this talk is on understanding and applying initial steps to facilitate data management and data reuse. Topics covered will include data management plans, the data life cycle, file management, and metadata. Attendees will get a...

Data Archive Event: Programming Pizza Party

Data Archive, 1120H Rolfe

Learning Python or R? Need dedicated practice time where you can ask questions? Like pizza? This 2-hour work session is designed to give people a chance to work on their Python/R projects alongside other beginners, and receive support from other users and our in-house experts. Bring your laptop, questions, and anything you are working on. Brought to you by the...

Winter Wednesday Workshops: Text-Analysis with Python from Scratch

Young Research Library West Electronic Classroom, Young Research Library Room 23167, Los Angeles, CA

Wednesday, Feb 21, 2018 - 11:30am to 1:30pm Research Library (Charles E. Young) Alina Arseniev-Koehler, Bernard Koch, and Ian Peacock (Sociology) will show Python tools and methods for manipulating and mining text data. No prior programming experience is required. We'll cover basic programming ideas, tools in Python to manipulate text data (e.g., regular expressions), and...