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Date: Wednesday, August 09, 2023
Duration: All Day
Categories: Other Sponsor

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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