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    • Statistics: A Review

    Rackham Building, West Conference Room, Fourth Floor 915 E. Washington St., Ann Arbor, MI, United States

    A one-day, intensive review of common statistical methods of design, measurement analysis and presentation of scientific investigations.  The workshop is designed for any scholar engaged in quantitative research. Statistics: A Review discusses answers to the following questions: What should we measure? What are the main design types; what are the comparative advantages of each? How […]

    • MIDAS Working Group on NSF solicitation for Big Data Spokes

    MIDAS - SPH I, Suite 7625 1415 Washington Heights, Ann Arbor, MI, United States

    This working group is organized by MIDAS to respond to the NSF Big Data Spokes funding solicitation (BD Spokes).   Agenda: A brief presentation about the funding opportunity and the background of the regional BD Hubs (Midwest, Northeast, South and West) and existing Spokes Discussion of ideas of new Spokes and forming collaborative teams (within […]

    • SPSS I Introduction to SPSS

    Modern Languages Building (MLB), Room 2001B

    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, and basic statistics and graphics. Useful for any scholar engaged in quantitative research. Fundamentals This portion introduces SPSS, the menu and the help systems, and […]

    Regular Expressions II

    Modern Languages Building (MLB), Room 2001B

    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” and “find and replace” string operations. They are also used to validate strings like phone numbers, passwords, etc. in data entry. Regular expression capabilities can […]

    Android Application Development: Why and How

    Rackham Building, Earl Lewis Room, 3rd Floor East 915 E. Washington St., Ann Arbor, MI, United States

    Mobile app development is one of the biggest new industries of the last decade. As of 2017, Google has stated that over 2 billion devices around the world use the Android operating system, alongside Apple’s 1 billion iOS mobile devices around the globe. The capabilities and adopted use of modern smartphones can provide an easy […]

    Stata 1: Introduction to Stata

    Modern Languages Building (MLB), Room 2001A

    Note: Topics are subject to change. Topics: Basics – Interfacing with Stata, Do-files, getting help. Working with Data Sets – Importing, opening, and saving data files. Data Management – Getting familiar with your data, adding informative labels, basic checks for issues. Data Manipulation – Generating new variables, working with subsets of data, merging files, reshaping […]

    Introductory GIS

    Rackham Building, Earl Lewis Room, 3rd Floor East 915 E. Washington St., Ann Arbor, MI, United States

    This workshop will cover introductory GIS concepts, tools, and techniques. We will use ArcGIS to learn basics of GIS by solving 2-3 specific problems. We will use the graphical user interface of ArcGIS and no programming experience is required for this workshop. The workshop will also cover the basics of projections and spatial data. The […]

    Introduction to MATLAB

    Modern Languages Building (MLB), Room 2001B

    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. The workshop is targeted to participants with little to no knowledge of MATLAB and/or participants that would like to review basic MATLAB concepts.

    • Introduction to the Linux Command Line

    East Hall B254 530 Church St., Ann Arbor, MI, United States

    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 line”. Topics include: a brief overview of Linux, the Bash shell, navigating the file system, basic commands, shell redirection, permissions, processes, and the command environment. […]

    Introduction to the Linux Command Line

    East Hall B254 530 Church St., Ann Arbor, MI, United States

    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 line”. Topics include: a brief overview of Linux, the Bash shell, navigating the file system, basic commands, shell redirection, permissions, processes, and the command environment. […]