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Learn to code by exploring regional language variation

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Date(s) - 22/10/2022 - 13/11/2022
12:00 am

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You say day-tah, I say dah-tah: Learn to code by exploring regional language variation

Data can come from anywhere: including how people talk to each other on Twitter!

As part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science, join us for a friendly introduction to data science and the processes behind data analysis.   By using everyday data and building analysis skills up from beginner level, this workshop will demystify what data analysis looks like and, hopefully, make it much less scary.

You’ll learn about the ethics and methods of data analysis, who usually handles data, and how data is created in the real world every day.

Our recorded workshop, focussed around the festival theme of ‘my local area’, gives you the opportunity to put your new data science skills to practice by exploring by exploring regional language variation.

At the end of the session, you may even want to hear more about the short courses run by CDRC that can grow your data analysis skills even further.

Who’s leading the event?

The event will be run jointly by Dustin Foley (Research Data Scientist) and Ryan Urquhart (Data Scientist Teaching Fellow), who work at Consumer Data Research Centre at the University of Leeds.

Open to

Our workshop activities are aimed at adults and young people who have little to no understanding of data analysis. This might include teenagers and young people, but would also be appealing to adults, especially career changers. People of any age are welcome to attend.

We will explain fully the processes of data analysis and what it looks like, and will guide you through the interactive online notebook where you will be able to write your first piece of code!

Event Booking details

Attendees will need to register to get access to the notebook and video content. Online booking coming soon.