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November 2017

Visualization in R

November 30, 2017 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Visualizing the results of research is a key aspect in facilitating scientific communication to a broad audience. The focus of this workshop will be on using common tools in R…

February 2018

Pandas Dataframes: Data Processing and Visualization in Python

February 2, 2018 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Presenters: Marcio Duarte Albasini Mourao

This workshop will delve into common data processing and exploration techniques. We will use Pandas to perform data exploration in Python. Among others, we’ll demonstrate how to load data files,…

Data Science with Social Science data: an introduction to Pandas and StatsModels in Python

February 9, 2018 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

This workshop introduces participants to Python’s NumPy, Pandas DataFrames, Matplotlib and StatsModels using an advertising dataset. Participants will use these tools to model (OLS) associations between advertising expenditures and product…

Data Processing with R

February 21, 2018 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

This talk will delve into common data processing and exploration techniques.  The main focus will be on packages that enhance and facilitate the sorts of operations that typically arise when…

Factor analysis and related techniques (with demonstrations in R)

February 28, 2018 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

This workshop will expose participants to a variety of related techniques that might fall under the heading of 'factor analysis', latent variable modeling, dimension reduction and similar, such as principal…

March 2018

Introduction to R Markdown

March 7, 2018 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

This workshop will introduce participants to the basics of R Markdown. After an introduction to concepts related to reproducible programming and research, demonstrations of standard markdown as well as overviews…

May 2018

Data Processing in Python using Pandas

May 17, 2018 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

This workshop will introduce participants to Python’s Pandas. We’ll start with a brief explanation of Anaconda and the Jupyter notebook environment (although not required for the participant, the instructor will…

June 2018

Classification, Regression and Model Selection using Python’s Scikit-learn

June 15, 2018 @ 2:00 pm - 4:45 pm

This workshop will introduce participants to machine learning in Python. We’ll start with a brief explanation of Anaconda and the Jupyter notebook environment (although not required for the participant, the…

August 2018

Visualization in R

August 10, 2018 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Visualizing the results of research is a key aspect in facilitating scientific communication to a broad audience. The focus of this workshop will be on using common tools in R…

November 2018

Matching with R

November 16, 2018 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Location: Rackham Building, Earl Lewis Room, 3rd Floor East, 915 E. Washington St.
Ann Arbor, MI 48109 United States

An introduction to matching, such as propensity score matching, using R's "optmatch" package. Matching is used to improve balance between groups, typically in observational studies, by creating quasi-experimental strata of similar individuals. We…