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This half-day online course will provide you with an introduction to the analytical programming language R. The course will focus on data pre-processing and visualisation, two of the key steps in understanding and generating insights from data. During the course you will learn about the benefits of R, how R handles different data types and...
This one-day online course, in association with The Alan Turing Institute, provides a practical introduction to data visualisation with Tableau Desktop, an industry-leading visualisation tool. You will learn how to create effective visualisations that range from bar and line charts to heat maps and geographic maps using Tableau, as well as how to avoid common...
This one-day course follows on from the “Introduction to R” training run by Richard Hodgett, Emmanouil Konstantinidis, and Alan Choicharoon on 20th January 2022, and will explore more advanced functions in R. This course contains lectures interspersed with hands-on practicals. The training will be hosted and delivered via MS Teams. Objectives To introduce attendees to...
**This course is now fully booked** This two-day online course will introduce you to some basic data analytics skills in Python, and is aimed at novices with day 1 introducing the basics of Python programming including data types, packages, data cleaning, data exploration and visualisation, as well as some basic data manipulation and statistics. We...
This one-day online course provides a practical introduction to QGIS: a free, open-source Geographic Information System. You will learn the principles underpinning vector-based geographic data analysis and learn to undertake tasks such as sourcing, loading and interrogating data; creating professional map outputs, preparing geographic data sets and undertaking spatial analysis. Short lectures will be interspersed...
**Regretfully, this course has now been cancelled. We hope to run this course in April 2021. Please contact Kylie Norman if you would like to be added to the waiting list.** Run in conjunction with Leeds Digital Festival 2020, this two-day course aims to get you up-to-speed with high performance geographic processing, analysis and visualisation capabilities...
This two-day programme (Friday 13th and Monday 16th March 2020) has been designed by the Consumer Data Research Centre at the Leeds Institute for Data Analytics to provide a series of ‘taster’ sessions which introduce core applications in data science, from programming and AI to data ethics. The programme purposely draws upon expertise across multiple disciplines and faculties in...
**This course is now fully-booked** This two-day course provides an introduction to Python programming with a focus on data analytics. At the start of the course we will help participants to set up Python on their laptops, we therefore strongly encourage participants to bring their own devices with them. The course will introduce some basics...
This five-day School, run in collaboration with The Alan Turing Institute, offers state-of-the-art training in the analysis of observational data for causal inference. By exploring the philosophy and utility of directed acyclic graphs (DAGs), participants will learn to recognise and avoid a range of common pitfalls in the analysis of complex causal relationships, including the...
This 1-day course follows on from the “Introduction to R” training run by Richard Hodgett and Emmanouil Konstantinidis to look at more advanced functions in R. Objectives To introduce attendees to more advanced capabilities within R, including the RStudio integrated development environment, including: IF statements and WHILE/FOR loops; Mark down and reporting; Building interactive...