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 …
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R and Python workshops – Fall 2022
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 …
w3schools code tutorials
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 …
Learn X in Y minutes
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 …
R & Python workshops – Winter 2022
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 …
R and Python workshops – Fall 2021
Summary Check the Calendar listing for data analysis workshops links and registration forms. Steenbock and SSCC workshops (Free) Steenbock Library: R series and Python series (Free) SSCC (Social Science Computing Cooperative): SSCC Training Classes Library …
Do yourself a favor: learn Markdown – Episode 4. Reproducible reports
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 …
Do yourself a favor: learn Markdown – Episode 3, Academic writing
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 …
Google colab is a free cloud notebook environment
Introduction Google Colab is a free cloud-based service that allows the execution of Python code using the Jupyter Notebook format. It is possible to use and install new python libraries. Furthermore it is possible to …
Data Analysis Workshops Winter 2021
SUMMARY: Check calendar for Free “R” and “Python” workshops (Steenbock Library.) “Introduction to R with RStudio,” “Data Wrangling in R” (SSCC – Social Science Computing Cooperative.) “Automating Tasks with the Unix Shell,” “Data Management with SQL,” “R: introduction / visualization / reports” (Software Carpentry through UW-Madison Data Science (fees apply).)