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Data Carpentry for the Social Sciences

Name: Data Carpentry for the Social Sciences
Start: 2018-10-04T08:00:00+01:00
End: 2018-10-05T17:00:00+01:00

4th October 2018 @ 8:00 am - 5th October 2018 @ 5:00 pm

£390

Organised by	The University of Manchester
Presenter	Peter Smyth
Date	04/10/2018 – 05/10/2018
Venue	University of Manchester
Map	View in Google Maps (M13 9PL)
Contact	CMI Short Courses [email protected] 0161 2751980
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.
Level	Entry (no or almost no prior knowledge)
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, 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

Details

Start:: 4th October 2018 @ 8:00 am
End:: 5th October 2018 @ 5:00 pm
Cost:: £390
Website:: https://www.cmist.manchester.ac.uk/study/short/list/