Intro to OpenRefine for Data Cleaning
'Learn how to clean, standardize, and transform messy data using OpenRefine, a powerful open source tool for working with large or inconsistent datasets. This hands on session will introduce key ...
Find out more »Five Ways to Love Your Data
Kick off UC Love Data Week with a fun and interactive session about five of the ways you can love your data. Learn how to write love notes to your ...
Find out more »One Metric to Fool Yourself – A Cautionary Tale in Machine Learning Evaluation
'When fitting a model, statistical or machine learning, we often want to evaluate its performance. We have a wealth of different methods for all types of scenarios, from classification and ...
Find out more »How to Use Data Repository Finders
'Choosing a repository is an important task that can impact the discoverability and long-term maintenance of your research data. There are several interactive tools designed to help with the selection ...
Find out more »UC Loves UC Data
'Have you ever wondered: How many incoming UC freshman are California residents? How many students are majoring in mechanical engineering at UC San Diego? How many patients are served by ...
Find out more »Can AI Tell a Cigarette from a High Tech Gadget?
Modern GenAI vision models can describe scenes and identify objects impressively well, but their classifications can still shift depending on how they are prompted. This talk explores a GenAI system’s ...
Find out more »Publishing a Quarto website on GitHub
Are you looking for a simple, professional way to showcase your research, CV, and/or complement your publications with more interactive content? What if we were to tell you you can ...
Find out more »Web Scraping, Crawling and Spoofing [Part 1]
This workshop connects applied social science research with practical data skills in a two-part format. The first part presents a large-scale research project on discrimination in the labor market, focusing ...
Find out more »Web Scraping, Crawling and Spoofing [Part 2]
This workshop connects applied social science research with practical data skills in a two-part format. The first part presents a large-scale research project on discrimination in the labor market, focusing ...
Find out more »Prototyping Data Solutions with Arduino
This event will follow a hands-on introductory workshop with Tinkercad on how to use the Arduino microcontroller and how data plays a key role in its usefulness. Attendees will learn ...
Find out more »Wikipedia Editathon
'"Wikipedia is among the most visited websites in the world, but even Wikipedia''s staff acknowledge that its content reflects its editorship (75.6 percent of US editors are white and 90 ...
Find out more »Publication-Ready Data Tables in R
'Are you tired of spending your time manually formatting tables for article submission? Does the idea of pasting regression coefficients from R to Excel make you wince? This session will ...
Find out more »Introduction to Public Health Data
'Are you looking for public health data but don''t know where to start? Join us for a practical guide on locating the specific public health data and information you need.Speaker(s): ...
Find out more »Visualizing Data with Ggplot for R Users
'If a picture tells a thousand words then a data visualization can convey a million! Join us to learn how to apply data visualization principles and best practices to generate ...
Find out more »From Static to Dynamic: Exploring Interactive Data Visualization
Most of us are used to making figures that are meant to be read, not explored – plots designed for PDFs and journal pages. Interactive graphics open up new possibilities ...
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