Odum Institute: Data Matters 2023

Data Science Courses for Working Professionals, Faculty, and Students

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.

Held virtually via Zoom, Data Matters gives students the chance to learn about a wide range of topics in data science, analytics, visualization, curation, and more from expert instructors.

Courses

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

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