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. Data Matters gives students the chance to learn about a wide range of topics in data science, analytics, visualization, and more from expert instructors. Learn more on their website.
The classes available are:
- Basic Statistics in R
- Basics of R for Data Science and Statistics
- Introduction to Programming in R
- Exploratory Data Analysis Using R Markdown
- Statistical Machine Learning Using R
- Visualization in Data Science Using R
- Advanced Visualization in R: R Shiny
- Introduction to Effective Information Visualization
- Introduction to Python
- Intermediate Python
- Overview to AI and Deep Learning
- Deep Learning with Python
- Introduction to Geospatial Data for the Data Scientist
- Geospatial Analytics
- Introduction to Big Data & Machine Learning for Survey Researchers & Social Scientists
The deadline for registration is August 3 for Monday/Tuesday courses, August 5 for Wednesday courses, and August 6 for Wednesday/Thursday courses.