Data Wrangling in R
Disciplinary expertise and interdisciplinary connections Inquiry, discovery, and creation
January 15th, 10:00am–3:00pm
REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED FOR THIS EVENT. TO REGISTER PLEASE GO TO: https://sscc.wisc.edu/sscc_jsp/training/details.jsp?class_id=3043 "Data wrangling" is the process of preparing data for analysis. This is a hands-on class with time devoted to practicing essential data wrangling skills. This course will first cover tools needed to work with different types of data. Then we will apply all of these in the context of datasets to create, transform, and clean variables.
Data Wrangling in R
Disciplinary expertise and interdisciplinary connections Inquiry, discovery, and creation
January 16th, 10:00am–3:00pm
REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED FOR THIS EVENT. TO REGISTER PLEASE GO TO: https://sscc.wisc.edu/sscc_jsp/training/details.jsp?class_id=3043 "Data wrangling" is the process of preparing data for analysis. This is a hands-on class with time devoted to practicing essential data wrangling skills. This course will first cover tools needed to work with different types of data. Then we will apply all of these in the context of datasets to create, transform, and clean variables.
Social Science Data Sources (Online)
Disciplinary expertise and interdisciplinary connections Inquiry, discovery, and creation
January 22nd, 12:00pm–1:00pm
Are you interested in learning about using data from the ICPSR repository (the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research database) and other social science data sources? Join us for a demo of how to use ICPSR, and a discussion of how to get access to other social science data. Register here: https://go.wisc.edu/3yfn9u
Data Visualization in R: GGplot2 Basics
Disciplinary expertise and interdisciplinary connections Inquiry, discovery, and creation
January 27th, 10:00am–12:00pm
REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED FOR THIS EVENT. TO REGISTER PLEASE GO TO: https://sscc.wisc.edu/sscc_jsp/training/details.jsp?class_id=3044 This workshop will teach you how to create and modify data visualizations using ggplot2, a popular plotting package in R. Emphasis is placed on using plots to understand distributions of different numbers and types of variables.
NVivo Software Basics (Online)
Career development Disciplinary expertise and interdisciplinary connections Inquiry, discovery, and creation Managing projects and people
January 27th, 12:00pm–2:00pm
NVivo is a popular qualitative data analysis software application that can be used to analyze interview transcripts and textual survey responses. NVivo facilitates the storage and organization of data, and provides tools for text coding. NVivo also provides a suite of analytical tools such as word frequency analysis and matrix-coding analysis. Register here: https://go.wisc.edu/k1za0i
Regression Diagnostics with R
Disciplinary expertise and interdisciplinary connections Inquiry, discovery, and creation
January 29th, 9:00am–12:00pm
REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED FOR THIS EVENT. TO REGISTER PLEASE GO TO: https://sscc.wisc.edu/sscc_jsp/training/details.jsp?class_id=3046 In this workshop, we will learn the importance of satisfying each regression assumption, how to check for assumption violations with statistical and visual tests, and how to correct for any violations.
Introduction to Stata
Disciplinary expertise and interdisciplinary connections Inquiry, discovery, and creation
January 30th, 12:30pm–4:30pm
REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED: https://sscc.wisc.edu/sscc_jsp/training/details.jsp?class_id=3032. Stata is a popular statistical analysis software, as it is both very powerful and relatively easy to learn. This class is primarily intended for students who need to use Stata in their classes, but either aren't doing research yet or don't anticipate doing much quantitative research. Most researchers should take full "Stata for Researchers" instead. For more info, please visit the registration page.
Data Wrangling in Stata
Disciplinary expertise and interdisciplinary connections Inquiry, discovery, and creation
February 6th, 12:30pm–4:30pm
REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED FOR THIS EVENT. TO REGISTER, PLEASE VISIT: https://sscc.wisc.edu/sscc_jsp/training/details.jsp?class_id=3033 "Data Wrangling" is the process of preparing data for analysis, which includes importing, cleaning, recoding, restructuring, combining, and anything else data needs before it can be analyzed. Data wrangling is a critical skill for research. In this class you'll learn how to wrangle data using Stata.
Oral History: What is it? And how do I do it?
Inquiry, discovery, and creation Communication
February 11th
If you’re interested in doing an oral history interview or project or just wondering what it actually is, this workshop will help you. Presented by UW-Madison Archives' Distinguished Oral Historian Troy Reeves, this 90 minute session will offer an overview of the art and science of oral history. Please register for either the in person at https://go.wisc.edu/27c08t or the virtual session at https://go.wisc.edu/2r8130 . The zoom link for those attending virtually will be sent prior to workshop.
Data Wrangling in Stata
Disciplinary expertise and interdisciplinary connections Inquiry, discovery, and creation
February 13th, 12:30pm–4:30pm
REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED FOR THIS EVENT. TO REGISTER, PLEASE VISIT: https://sscc.wisc.edu/sscc_jsp/training/details.jsp?class_id=3033 "Data Wrangling" is the process of preparing data for analysis, which includes importing, cleaning, recoding, restructuring, combining, and anything else data needs before it can be analyzed. Data wrangling is a critical skill for research. In this class you'll learn how to wrangle data using Stata.