Graduate Student Research Support

Provides statistical and intellectual support to students, staff and faculty. The Center’s activities cover all aspects of the statistical design, analysis and interpretation of investigations in science and industry. Beyond just conducting data analysis, our services provide a holistic approach to our clients by providing assistance at all stages of project development from study design through final publication.

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This workshop teaches data management and analysis for social science research including best practices for data organization in spreadsheets, reproducible data cleaning with OpenRefine, and data analysis and visualization in R. This curriculum is designed to be taught over two full days of instruction. Learn about:
• Data Organization in Spreadsheets
• Data Cleaning with OpenRefine
• Data Analysis and Visualization with R
Instructor: Danielle Kane, please contact libdss@uci.edu if you have any questions.

This workshop focuses on working with geospatial data - managing and understanding spatial data formats, understanding coordinate reference systems, and working with raster and vector data in R for analysis and visualization.
Includes:
• Introduction to Geospatial Concepts
• Introduction to R for Geospatial Data
• Introduction to Geospatial Raster and Vector Data with R
Instructor: Danielle Kane, please contact libdss@uci.edu if you have any questions.

OpenRefine is described as “a power tool for working with messy data” David Huynh - but what does this mean? It is probably easiest to describe the kinds of data OpenRefine is good at working with and the sorts of problems it can help you solve.

Instructor: Danielle Kane, please contact libdss@uci.edu if you have any questions.

ICPSR's Summer Program offers introductory to advanced training in statistics, data analysis, and quantitative research methods. Hosted by ICPSR at the University of Michigan, these trainings are offered in person, or online synchronously or asynchronously. ICSPR also offers scholarships to attend this training.