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November 2019
Introduction to Python for Data Analytics
Location: Leeds Institute for Data Analytics, Computer Cluster 11.06. 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 in Python programming such as data types, basic operations, data sequences and data structures, control flows and exceptions. We will then…
Find out more »Introduction to ArcGIS
Location: Leeds Institute for Data Analytics, Computer Cluster 11.06. This 1 day course provides an introduction to Geographical Information Systems (GIS) using ESRI’s ArcGIS software. It provides participants with the opportunity to familiarise themselves with using and navigating the software, as well as focusing on the skills of data entry, data manipulation, editing, analysis and mapping. The emphasis of this course is working with vector data in the context of a variety of socio-economic applications. The course will mix teaching with…
Find out more »December 2019
Oxford Retail Futures Conference
Understanding the impact of emergent technologies on retail business models, processes and places The Oxford Retail Futures conference is an annual conference. It is being organised jointly by the Oxford Institute of Retail Management, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford and the Consumer Data Research Centre (CDRC). Overview: Traditional forms of retailing have been significantly affected by the growth of emergent and often disruptive digital technologies. The rhetoric suggests apocalyptic impacts on existing forms of retailing as well as higher…
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