Data Carpentry for the Social Sciences

Date:

04/10/2018 - 05/10/2018

Organised by:

The University of Manchester

Presenter:

Peter Smyth

Level:

Entry (no or almost no prior knowledge)

Contact:

CMI Short Courses
cmi-shortcourses@manchester.ac.uk
0161 2751980

Map:

View in Google Maps  (M13 9PL)

Venue:

University of Manchester

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:

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, Mixed Methods Approaches (other), Quantitative Software, SPSS

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
Mixed Methods Approaches (other)
Quantitative Software
SPSS

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