Extracting Data from the Web: Web Scraping Using R

This 3 hour course will be offered via Zoom. Attendance is required as the course will not be recorded.

Sometimes you need to analyze data that is only available as a web page. This course will introduce you to extracting structured data from web pages, also known as “scraping” the pages. We will use the R programming language. The first portion of the course will introduce basic HTML, CSS selectors, Developer Tools in Google Chrome, and the R packages used for web scraping. The second portion will consist of a hands-on exercise scraping data from a real web page. After this course, you should be able to scrape data from most web pages you encounter in your research.

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NC BERD Seminar: Introduction to BERD biostatistical services at Wake Forest University

This session will describe the biostatistical services offered by the BERD program at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine Clinical and Translational Science Institute.

Presenter: Greg Russell, MS
Sr Biostatistician, Biostatistics and Data Science, Wake Forest University School of Medicine

This event is hosted by Wake Forest and being cross-promoted by the NC BERD Consortium, a collaboration of the CTSA-funded BERD cores at UNC-Chapel Hill, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, and Duke University School of Medicine.

Introduction to Qualtrics

Qualtrics is a powerful browser-based web-survey tool. It is available to all UNC-Chapel Hill faculty, staff, and students, for UNC-related projects. Qualtrics allows users to build complex surveys, distribute them, and analyze the responses all from one place. This course covesr basic Qualtrics functions including creating some of the most common question types, programming display and skip logic, an introduction to “survey flow”, distributing surveys with an anonymous link vs survey mailer, creating and uploading contact lists, project collaboration and creating groups, adding content to Libraries, and downloading data.

This is an introductory course and will not cover use of the online analysis tools within Qualtrics. Please note, this is a hands-on course. All participants are required to create a Qualtrics account before the course.

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This online training session will provide an introduction to qualitative research methods. Participants will have the opportunity to ask questions and share experiences conducting qualitative research.

Topics:

• Differences between quantitative and qualitative research
• Qualitative research methodologies
• Strategies for qualitative data collection
• Methods of qualitative data analysis

Presenters:
MaryBeth Grewe, MPH
Engagement and Qualitative Research Specialist
NC TraCS Institute

Simone Frank, MPH
Community Engagement and Outreach Specialist
NC TraCS Institute

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Capturing Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI) in Survey Research

This course will be offered over one afternoon via Zoom only. Attendance is required as the course will not be recorded.

This short course will provide participants with a broad overview of considerations and approaches for capturing sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) in survey research. This includes examining the current best practices and approaches, and considerations for sampling and other key design considerations when researching these populations. The workshop is intended to give participants an opportunity to better understand the various current approaches to measuring SOGI, and hands-on practice developing responsive best-practice versions of SOGI questions for their own research needs.

Topics:

• The (in)consistency of including SOGI items in research
• Reviewing national and state approaches to SOGI data collection
• The components of sexual orientation and gender identity
• Measuring SOGI together, and separately
• Considerations when measuring SOGI minorities among other minority groups
• Thinking of SOGI as a not-so-sensitive answer, but potentially a sensitive question
• Moving beyond binaries in response options
• Developing fit-for-purpose SOGI questions for unique sub-populations or survey needs
• Resources for SOGI best-practices and emerging research

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The DEVICE Trial: An Embedded, Pragmatic Trial of Emergency Airway Management

This NIH Collaboratory Rethinking Clinical Trials Grand Rounds features:

Matthew Prekker, MD, MPH
Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
Hennepin County Medical Center
University of Minnesota Medical School

Jonathan Casey, MD, MSc
Assistant Professor of Pulmonary and Critical Care
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Director, Coordinating Center, Pragmatic Critical Care Research Group

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