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January 2020
Intermediate R
This course is now fully subscribed. Please contact Kylie Norman if you would like to be added to the waiting list or if you would like to pre-register for the next course. 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;…
Find out more »Introduction to QGIS with raster data
This 1 day course introduces Quantum Geographical Information Systems (QGIS) and builds on basic knowledge of data manipulation, mapping and analysis. The emphasis of this course is working with raster data in the context of a variety of environmental applications by exploring surface geo-processing tools within QGIS. The course will mix teaching with demonstrations and hands-on exercises. Course Tutors Steve Carver is a Geographer and Senior Lecturer at the University of Leeds. He has over 30 years' experience in the…
Find out more »February 2020
Spatial Analysis for Public Health Researchers
This 1 day course offers an introduction to spatial analytics in a public health context. As spatial data sets get larger, more sophisticated software needs to be harnessed for their analysis. R is now a widely used open source software platform for statistical analysis and is increasingly popular for those working with spatial data thanks to its powerful analysis and visualisation packages. This course introduces the basics of how R can be used for spatial data. The course will begin…
Find out more »March 2020
Introduction to Spatial Data & Using R as a GIS – London
This is a training and capacity building event organised by the Consumer Data Research Centre (CDRC) in conjunction with the National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM), ESRC funded research projects. In this one-day course we will explore how to use R to import, manage and process spatial data. We will also cover the process of making choropleth maps, as well as some basic spatial analysis. Finally, we will cover the use of loops to make multiple maps quickly and easily,…
Find out more »Beginner’s Python for Data Analysis
Please register your interest for this course by emailing Kylie Norman. This 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 take a practical approach and aim to get you starting coding early, with short explanations followed by practical exercises to work through. At…
Find out more »April 2020
Introduction to QGIS: Understanding and Presenting Spatial Data – London
This is a training and capacity building event organised by the Consumer Data Research Centre (CDRC) in conjunction with the National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM), ESRC funded research projects. In this one-day introductory course we will give you an overview on how GIS works, and what we can and can’t do with spatial data. We assume no prior knowledge of GIS and will explain how to get data into the GIS as well as how to produce maps using…
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