Workshop Overview: In thisworkshop, we will delve into the art of conducting Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) on a given dataset. EDA encompasses a broad spectrum of critical data analysis components, which include, but are not restricted to, the following:
What is it like to do archival research in Nigeria and other African countries? What are the political implications of archival research work and how does our positionality as African researchers impact how we engage in research?
This is a conversation for undergraduate and graduate students engaged or interested in conducting research in Africa and the African diaspora.
This conversation is facilitated by Provostial Visiting Fellow-In-Residence Dr. Samaila Suleiman, Dr. Nanre Naziger, Faculty of Education and the African Studies Students Association (ASSA)
Workshop Overview: In this 2h-workshop, participants will obtain a basic introduction to version control using git and GitHub. Using a sample project, participants will perform some basic git operations in both RStudio and the command line. Emphasis is on sharing code to further reproducible research. Advanced operations, such as those used in software development, will not be demonstrated.
This workshop will introduce the fundamental tool of Industry Analysis which companies use for strategy development. For startups, understanding the industry is a critical step in determining market entry and market positioning. The Five Forces Framework will be presented and applied to during an exercise.
Date: Mar. 19th, 2024
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 pm
Location: in-person @ Engine Seminar Room - FDA 3 (Accessibility Map)
Take a break with your Local Wellness Advisor and a member of the Arts OASIS team. This a time to relax with free tea and hot chocolate and an opportunity to chat about wellness and/or academic advising. Please bring your own mug or container whenever possible.
Coding Ateliers
As part of CDSI, the Data Science Solutions Hub (DaS2H) offers Coding Ateliers to the McGill research community, where you can drop-in during atelier hours with your laptop, work on your research project and, whenever you have a question, we would be happy to assist you on the spot. If your question turns out to be a bigger issue that we cannot solve instantly, we will advise you how to best proceed.
The world is going through a moment of history wars where dissident memories and competing versions of the past are increasingly mobilized as instruments of social justice movements and political negotiation. The Rhodes Must Fall and BlackLivesMatter movements, which were occasioned by the desecration and toppling of the statues and memorials associated with colonial violence, have opened “the floodgates of historical accountability”.
The increasingly rapid development of new media merits a reflection not only on the quality of the contents produced therein, but also on the possibilities deriving from them. This workshop aims to explore one of these communication tools: the podcast. We will discuss it with experts, trying to understand both from a journalistic point of view its potential and from a technical point of view its functioning. Together we will explore the possibilities for novel engagements and far-reaching interventions in the public sphere.
Workshop Overview: The goal of this workshop is to serve as an introduction to the use of meta-analysis to combine summary data. Specifically, we will cover the different assumptions required and types of analyses one can use when trying to synthesize information from different sources. We will begin by considering the case of estimating a mean for single characteristic from different studies. We will discuss different estimators and diagnostic plots that can be used estimate quantities of interest and to assess the assumptions necessary for proper inference.
Workshop Overview: This workshop will enhance your knowledge of how to work with Git in R. Emphasis is put on collaboration with Git and comparing file versions.
At the end of the workshop, you will:
> Become familiar with the version control system Git
> Understand how versioning works in Git
> Be able to compare different version and revert changes
> Be able to collaborate on Git projects
> Be able to configure Git in R
Prerequisites:
This workshop will provide an overview of the different types of market research, how to analyze the competition, and the resources available at McGill to perform market research. Our market research librarian Emily Jaeger-McEnroe will walk us through some of those resources using a market research canvas tool.
Date: Mar. 26th, 2024
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 pm
Location: in-person @ Engine Seminar Room FDA 3 (Accessibility Map)
Take a break with your Local Wellness Advisor and a member of the Arts OASIS team. This a time to relax with free tea and hot chocolate and an opportunity to chat about wellness and/or academic advising. Please bring your own mug or container whenever possible.
Workshop Overview: R is mostly known for its statistical methods on numbers. However, it is also capable of working efficiently with text and analysing it. In this workshop we will take a deep dive into how to work with text in R and introduce you to functions that allow you to even do text mining.
At the end of this workshop, you will be able to
· manipulate strings efficiently
· import text from multiple sources
· lay the basis for working with regular expressions (regex)