Data Matters Short-Course Series

Data Matters™ is a week-long series of one and two-day courses aimed at students and professionals in business, research, and government. The short course series is sponsored by the Odum Institute for Research in Social Science at UNC-Chapel Hill, the National Consortium for Data Science, and RENCI. Data Matters gives students the chance to learn about a wide range of topics in data science, analytics, visualization, and more from expert instructors. Learn more on their website.

The classes available are:

• Basic Statistics in R
• Basics of R for Data Science and Statistics
• Introduction to Programming in R
• Exploratory Data Analysis Using R Markdown
• Statistical Machine Learning Using R
• Visualization in Data Science Using R
• Advanced Visualization in R: R Shiny
• Introduction to Effective Information Visualization
• Introduction to Python
• Intermediate Python
• Overview to AI and Deep Learning
• Deep Learning with Python
• Introduction to Geospatial Data for the Data Scientist
• Geospatial Analytics
• Introduction to Big Data & Machine Learning for Survey Researchers & Social Scientists

The deadline for registration is August 3 for Monday/Tuesday courses, August 5 for Wednesday courses, and August 6 for Wednesday/Thursday courses.