This Wednesday we talked about how to wrie functions in R. The topic is very simple but useful. Thank you to everyone who showed up! See you next Wednesday 11/16/2016 10:00-12:00 at DSSC! Also, we will host a R workshop about regresssion next Friday 11/19/2016 10:00-11:00 at Science & Engineering LIbrary! […]
Python Open Labs – Session 6
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 […]
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 […]
Map Club — Dynamic Mapping with OpenLayers
The latest session of Map Club focused on OpenLayers, a high-performance library for rendering geographic information in the browser. OpenLayers enables users to visualize a diverse range of geospatial data formats, while offering intuitive links to external web-based mapping resources such as CARTO, OpenStreetMap, Stamen, and D3.js. Participants explored OpenLayers functionality for importing KML and GeoJSON data, experimented with linking to […]
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 ! […]
Survey Documentation and Analysis (SDA)
Survey Documentation and Analysis (SDA) is a web based interface that allows access and analysis of data. The data can be accessed from IPUMS or from the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR). SDA allows you to: Browse the codebook describing a dataset Calculate frequencies or crosstabulation (with charts) Do comparison of means […]
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 […]
Map Club — Interactive Maps with Mapzen
Last week, Map Club revisited Tangram, the powerful open-source renderer for Mapzen. (We first explored Mapzen over the summer.) Mapzen is an open, sustainable, and accessible mapping platform that offers intricate control over the design of web-based maps. Centered on a map of Manhattan, attendees referenced the comprehensive documentation page to alter the drawing style of Tangram’s vector tile service. […]