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SHORT COURSES: Data Carpentry for the Social Sciences

Dates:4 October 2018 - 5 October 2018
Times:All day
What is it:Course
Organiser:Cathie Marsh Institute for Social Research
How much:£390 / £280 for those from educational, government and charitable institutions
Who is it for:University staff, Adults, Alumni, Current University students, General public
Speaker:Peter Smyth
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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.

Price: £390

Concessions: £280 for those from educational, government and charitable institutions

Speaker

Peter Smyth

Role: Research Associate

Organisation: University of Manchester

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