Data Carpentry for the Social Sciences in R

Description:

Data Carpentry workshops are for any researcher who has data they want to analyse, and no prior computational experience is required. This hands-on workshop teaches basic concepts, skills and tools for working more effectively with data.
 

On completion of this course, the participants will be able to:

• understand problems which can occur in spreadsheets of data
• create ‘clean’ spreadsheets either from scratch or by reformatting a ‘dirty’ spreadsheet
• use OpenRefine to clean datasets and perform basic exploratory data analysis on the data
• use SQL to summarise data and to join different data sources
• use basic functionality in the R programming language to perform basic EDA (Exploratory Data Analysis) and to create a simple visualisation of data.
• convert data formats using R
• understand the importance of documenting work for future use.

Cost:

£390 (£280 for those from educational, government and charitable institutions)

Website and registration:

https://www.cmist.manchester.ac.uk/study/short/list/

Region:

North West

Keywords:

Evaluation Research, Analysis of existing survey data, Online Data Collection , Data Management , Data archiving, Data governance, Data management plans, Information management, Statistical Theory and Methods of Inference, Quantitative Software, R

Related publications and presentations:

Evaluation Research
Analysis of existing survey data
Online Data Collection
Data Management
Data archiving
Data governance
Data management plans
Information management
Statistical Theory and Methods of Inference
Quantitative Software
R

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