August 2016
Data Science Skills Series week 1
Fast data processing with Go We will demonstrate basic Go using several practical examples of data manipulation. Go (golang.org) is an open source programming language that has many syntax features…
Data Science Skills Series Week 2
Data processing and visualization in R This workshop will delve into common data processing and exploration techniques, especially as a prelude to visualization. The main focus will be the dplyr…
September 2016
Data Science Skills Series Web Scraping with Python
Web Scraping with Python We will provide an overview of how to scrape data from html pages and website APIs using Python. For demonstration purposes, we will scrape sports and…
Statistical Analysis with R
This is a two day workshop in R which is a free and open source environment for data analysis and statistical computing. While R contains many built-in statistical procedures, a…
October 2016
Machine Learning in Python (Scikit-Learn)
This workshop will cover the essentials of unsupervised machine learning algorithms using Python's Scikit-learn library. We will focus on K-Means and Principal Component Analysis (PCA). The workshop is designed for intermediate to advanced…
November 2016
Fitting General Linear and Mixed-Effects (Multilevel) Models in SPSS®
This three-half-days workshop is designed to provide experienced SPSS users (please read prerequisites below carefully) with hands-on exposure to more advanced modeling techniques in SPSS, using IBM SPSS for Windows.…
January 2018
SPSS I Introduction to SPSS
Note: Topic order is subject to change. This workshop is designed to introduce participants to SPSS. It will cover the fundamentals of SPSS, within-case transformations, data management with multiple files,…
Regular Expressions II
Regular expressions are perfectly suited for people who like puzzles. Regular expressions are a sequence of characters used to define a search pattern. They are commonly used to do “find”…
Introduction to MATLAB
This workshop introduces participants to MATLAB. Topics include indexing and slicing of vectors and matrices, creation of script M-files and functions, control flow operators and basic 2D and 3D visualization.…
March 2018
Intro to SQL
Ever want to know how to communicate with a database? You need to know SQL, a standard programming language for working with relational database management systems in data warehouses or…
Deep Neural Networks with TensorFlow: A Quick Start Introduction
Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are used as a machine learning method for both regression and classification problems. TensorFlow is a popular software library that is often used to construct and train DNNs. In this workshop,…
Parallel Processing with Python
Modern computers have a CPU with multiple cores (usually between 4-8). Come learn how to take advantage of them to parallelize and speed up your code. We’ll show you how…
May 2018
Geospatial analysis with Google Earth Engine
Google Earth Engine (GEE) combines a multi-petabyte catalog of satellite imagery and geospatial datasets with planetary-scale analysis capabilities. This workshop will provide an introduction to GEE. We will cover data…
June 2018
Introduction to Deep Neural Networks with Keras/Tensorflow
Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are used as a machine learning method for both regression and classification problems. Keras is a high-level, Python interface running on top of multiple neural network libraries,…
Classification, Regression and Model Selection using Python’s Scikit-learn
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…
Web Scraping with Python
This workshop will provide an overview of how to scrape data from html pages and website APIs using Python. This will mostly be accomplished using the Python requests, beautifulsoup, retry…
Spatial point process models
This is the first workshop in a series of three workshops that will cover spatial modeling of three broad classes of data: (i) spatial point pattern, (ii) discrete spatial variation…
November 2018
Dimension Reduction Techniques
This workshop will provide an overview of commonly used dimension reduction techniques such as principle components analysis (PCA), multi-dimensional scaling (MDS), and factor analysis. The focus will be on concepts…
August 2019
Research Computing on the Great Lakes cluster
This workshop will provide a brief overview of the the new HPC environment and is intended for current Flux and Armis users. We will use the temporary Beta HPC cluster…
September 2019
Data management in R with data.table
Matt Dowle, author of the data.table package, describes it as, “provid a high-performance version of base R's data.frame with syntax and feature enhancements for ease of use, convenience and programming speed.” In this workshop…
Introduction to the Linux Command Line
This course will familiarize the student with the basics of accessing and interacting with Linux computers using the GNU/Linux operating system’s Bash shell, also generically referred to as “the command…
January 2020
R I: Data Wrangling
This workshop will delve into common data processing and exploration techniques using R. The main focus will be on constructing and manipulating R data objects, and using packages that enhance…
R by Example: Analyzing RECS using tidyverse
In the R by Example series of workshops, we’ll discuss example analyses in R as a vehicle for learning commonly used tools and programming patterns. The “Analyzing RECS using tidyverse” workshop will…
February 2020
R by Example: Analyzing RECS using data.table
In the R by Example series of workshops, we’ll discuss example analyses in R as a vehicle for learning commonly used tools and programming patterns. The “Analyzing RECS using data.table” workshop will…
