Hi In the 6th session of Python Open Labs, today we covered the concepts on comparison operators, logical operations and complex logical expressions. If you attended today’s session, I encourage you all to try out the practice problems from the slides on the google drive link given below. Python Open Labs Slides: https://goo.gl/YP0c2E Tip of the […]
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R Open Labs – Time Series Analysis (contd)
This Wednesday we continued to talk about some broad ideas of time series analysis. We explored seasonal trend decomposition, which can be used to show the seasonal fluctuation and main trend of the dataset. It’s a very involved topic, so thank you and a round of applause to everyone who showed up today. Next week […]
Python Open Labs – Session 5
Hi Thanks for stopping by this post. In the 5th session of Python Open Labs, today we covered the concept of for loops in python along with a quick revision of concepts from the previous sessions. If you attended today’s session, I encourage you all to try out the practise […]
R Open Labs – Time Series Analysis
This Wednesday we talked about time series analysis. It is a very complex and involved topic, but most participants showed great interest, so we would continue talking about this for the next few sessions. Thank you to everyone who showed up! See you next Wednesday 11/02/2016 10:00-12:00 at DSSC! […]
Python Open Labs- Session 4
Hi everyone In the fourth session of Python Open Labs, we covered the basics of loops and iterations. Today’s session covered the basics of using a while loop and also introduce the csv python library. Please check out the course material on: https://goo.gl/YP0c2E See you next week ! […]
R Open Labs – Data Manipulation
Today we introduced merge(), factor() and some basic techniques for handling missing values during the first 30 minutes of the open lab. For the rest of the open lab, there were free discussions about personal projects the participants are working on. We also introduced package swirl. Swirl package teaches you R programming interactively. Thank you to everyone who […]
Python Open Labs Session – 3
Hi Everyone Today in the third session of Python Open Labs we covered defining user functions, getting familiar with built-in functions, a quick revision of conditional statements and various ways and exercises to use functions and their advantages. The course material from all Python Open Labs Session is available on […]
R Open Labs – Plotting
Yesterday we briefly talked about how to do plotting in R. We mainly discussed plot(), barplot(), hist() and Lattice package. Thank you to everyone who showed up and we will explore more data visualization techniques for next session. Also, from next session on, the open lab will be much less structured and will involve more […]
Python Open Labs Session-1
Hi everyone, in the first session of Python Open Labs at DSSC we discussed about need of programming and covered the basic concepts of Python including simple print statements, arithmetic expressions, syntax rules, variables, constants and type casting. Please check out the slides and example codes on: https://goo.gl/YP0c2E and don’t forget to follow up on […]
Map Club!
Come join us for the launch of Map Club with five fast-paced hack sessions geared toward the rapid acquisition of skills in geospatial technology held in the Lehman Library, room 215. Led by DSSC Spatial Research Intern, Emily Fuhrman, each session provides an informal and fun opportunity for the exploration of a web-based library or framework. […]