This workshop is a continuation of the previous workshop “Building software projects: use CMake to build the building plan”.  In this workshop, we will see that CMake is not just a fancy Makefile generator: it can help us to test, reuse, and distribute our software!  We will use CMake to build two interdependent multi-language projects, […]

This session will be held online, and presenters will be in touch with more information after you register.   R is a popular open source programming environment for statistics and data science. However, it has also gradually become very powerful for GIS and spatial data science. This workshop will help you learn about the tools […]

This session will be held online, and presenters will be in touch with more information after you register.   Mediation analysis is a set of tools for exploring hypotheses about causal pathways, with a special focus on differentiating “direct” from “mediated” associations between an exposure and an outcome.  Many approaches to mediation analysis are based […]

This session will be held online, and presenters will be in touch with more information after you register.   Missing data arise in many fields of research, and a large body of statistical tools has been developed to facilitate statistical analysis in the presence of missing data.  Here we focus mainly on multiple imputation, which […]

This session will be held online, and presenters will be in touch with more information after you register.   This lecture-format workshop will present an overview of available modes and methods of survey data collection as well as an introduction to the survey response process and implications for questionnaire design. Participants will gain an appreciation […]

This session will be held online, and presenters will be in touch with more information after you register.   Geostatistical approach models spatially correlated continuous random phenomenon for robust estimation and prediction. The approach is common across different fields in applied science where continuous phenomenon is observed at a few locations in space and the […]

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 just Microsoft Access. This workshop will cover the basic syntax of SQL. Material will focus mainly on how to query databases. A web-based tool will […]

A BlueJeans link will be sent to all registered participants. Spatial point process models help us analyze the geometrical pattern of points (events) in space and find application in a variety of fields including image processing, public health, forestry, ecology, and business. This workshop will provide an introduction to point process models focusing on the conceptual […]

CSCAR and MIDAS will hold a series of on-line technical workshops on the use of publicly-available data for analyzing human health at the population level. Some of the analyses and data are relevant to understanding the covid pandemic, but the focus of these workshops is on methods that are of broader use in population health […]