Dive into the fascinating world of recommender systems, the backbone of personalized experiences in today’s digital age. In this workshop, you’ll uncover how platforms like Netflix, Amazon, and Spotify predict what users want. Participants will gain insights into popular algorithms, including collaborative and content-based filtering, and apply these techniques to create intelligent recommendation solutions. Supplemental … Read More
The RStudio environment enables the easy creation of documents in various formats (HTML, DOC, PDF) using Rmarkdown, while knitr allows the incorporation of executable R code to produce the tables and figures in those documents. This session introduces these concepts and other packages and practices supporting reproducibility with the R environment. Supplemental materials are available.
This workshop reviews statistical tests, regression, sampling and bootstrap methods, and more. The focus here is on implementing statistics using R, with a comparison to Python techniques for accomplishing similar tasks. Part of the Data Topics series of workshops. Workshop conducted via Zoom. Supplemental materials are available.
A Geographic Information System (GIS) can be a very useful tool for your research by incorporating location when exploring your questions. In this short, interactive workshop, we will cover basic GIS concepts using ArcGIS Online. We'll explore the interface, add and visualize data, run a quick analysis, and create and share a map. Make sure … Read More
The ggplot2 package from the tidyverse provides extensive and flexible graphical capabilities within a consistent framework. This session introduces the main features of ggplot2. Some prior familiarity with R is assumed (packages, structure, syntax), but the presentation can be followed without this background. Supplemental materials are available.
A Geographic Information System (GIS) can be a very useful tool for your research by incorporating location when exploring your questions. In this short, interactive workshop, we will cover basic GIS concepts using ArcGIS Online. We'll explore the interface, add and visualize data, run a quick analysis, and create and share a map. *Make sure … Read More
Creating interactive visualizations with Shiny in RStudio, and delivering Shiny visualizations on the web and hosting a Shiny server. Supplemental materials are available.
Most people can relate to and understand "where" when sharing information. In this short, interactive workshop, we will explore telling the story of your research using StoryMaps or another of the web applications that integrate work done in ArcGIS Online. Previous knowledge of geographic information systems (GIS) is not required. *Make sure to register for … Read More
This session introduces the R statistical software environment, basic methods of data analysis, and the "tidyverse." While R is much more than the tidyverse, the development of the tidyverse packages, led by RStudio, has provided a powerful and connected toolkit to get started using R. Note that graphics and data manipulation are covered in subsequent … Read More
Coding doesn’t have to be intimidating. Python is one of the easiest programming languages to learn, and it’s used everywhere, from apps to automation to data analysis. In this workshop, we’ll start with the basics, step by step, and show you how Python can be applied to everyday problems in a way that’s simple and … Read More