Free courses This new page lists professional courses available to UW-Madison personnel at LinkedIn Learning (previously Lynda.com) and just requires a NetID. The page has been added on the new “Software Resources” top menu for an easy find, and is also listed below: The page is: Free programming courses The page also lists courses that …
New classroom, computers, workshops New Apple Macintosh M1 computers are ready for hosting new workshops in person again. Apple M1 Macintosh The classroom is now equipped with Macintosh mac-mini computers with the new M1 chip. These are attached to Dell 4K display monitors providing a crisp image and easy connections. New workshops While there are many …
Becoming a Data Scientist If you are interested to become a data scientist, the following free resources and books would be very helpful. Free books using R These and other books aan be accessed for free on bookdown.org (Note: bookdown is the software used to edit them.) Free books on using Python Free books on …
Summary Check the Calendar listing for data analysis workshops links and registration forms. Below are workshop dates for SSCC, Madison chapter of Software Carpentry, and Steenbock Library series. Social Science Computing Cooperative (SSCC) The table below shows only the R and Python courses. See complete listing at https://sscc.wisc.edu/sscc_jsp/training/ Title Date Time Instructor Introduction to Python …
w3schools: Learn to Code On the w3schools site I was surprised to find a lot more than informational tutorial for Web coding such as CSS or PHP. The site offers a large number of well organized, self-paced tutorials on a much larger scale. Coding languages Here are a few that I find particularly useful to …
Learn X in Y minutes In the past we had “flash cards” to memorize and review materials. This site Learn X in Y minutes has one-page reminders that can be used to re-learn material or get some idea of what the subject is about. For example I wrote a series of 4 posts titled Do …
Summary (Free) Steenbock Library: R and python series (Free) SSCC (Social Science Computing Cooperative): SSCC Training Classes (low cost for UW) Software Carpentry: Software Carpentry @ UW-Madison Low cost registration ends January 5, 2022 See also the general Calendar listing . Library workshops Note: these workshops fill-in fast… Individual workshop descriptions and instructors list. Registration required. …
Summary Check the Calendar listing for data analysis workshops links and registration forms. Steenbock and SSCC workshops Library workshops Note: these workshops fill-in fast… Individual workshop descriptions and instructors list. Please email Heather Shimon, heather.shimon@wisc.edu with questions or to be added to our email list for updates. Registration required. Registration is by workshop, not for the …
The message The essential message is this: stop using Copy/Paste from one program to another (e.g. a chart from Excel to Word) as this is a manual process that is not reproducible and can easily get out of sync if new data need to be incorporated and the report reconstructed anew. The solution is to …
Academic writing with Markdown The origin of Markdown was a simple editing process to export web pages in HTML. In Episode 1 we learned that (original) Markdown has a simple syntax for enhancing text with rich elements while retaining the readability of a plain text format. Episode 2 explored Markdown variants and Markdown (free) software. In …