This course is being offered in collaboration between the Odum Institute and the Center for Urban & Regional Studies. This course, led by the Carolina Drone Lab, will cover drone data collection, planning, and analysis. Attendees will be introduced to: mission planning, creating automated flights for data capture, processing software for drone imagery (Pix4dMapper), and... Read more »
This course will be offered ONLINE. It will not be recorded as there are in-class activities. This is a 4 hour course. Description: Qualtrics is a powerful browser-based web-survey tool. It... Read more »
This course will be offered online only. Attendance is required – this course will not be recorded. Methods for Cross-Cultural Research is a 2.5 hour short-course focused on designing and implementing social science research cross-culturally, with a particular emphasis on collecting interview data. In the face of increasing globalization, concerns for external validity, and the... Read more »
The Dissertation Structure, Organization, and Completion workshop will focus on a pivotal aspect of doctoral degree completion, the dissertation proposal. Each component of the dissertation proposal defense will be discussed as well as strategies to ensure a successful outcome of this signal event. Workshop participants will learn how academic scholars present research focusing heavily on... Read more »
This course is being offered in collaboration between the Odum Institute and the Center for Urban & Regional Studies. This course offers a broad introduction into the use of geospatial data in data science applications. The course materials will be built for non-geospatial professionals who find themselves needing to use geospatial data effectively. Contact Jill... Read more »
This course will cover topics beyond the scope of the Introductory to Qualtrics short course. We will take a deeper dive into Survey Flow features including embedded data, customizing the End of Survey experience, Screen Out Management, and implementing randomization. We will explore methods of importing embedded data into your survey, sending information from one... Read more »
This course focuses on best practices for writing questions and visual design for surveys, with a focus on holistic designs in which question wording and visual design work together to produce good measurement. It draws on the empirical literature to provide practical guidelines for questionnaire design and considers mixed-mode and mixed-device surveys. The course will... Read more »
This is a full-day, intensive online interactive course focused on using the Dataverse Application Programming Interface (API) to interact with data archived in a Dataverse-based repository. The session will be broken into to two segments: 1) we will cover the basics of what an API is, how it works and what it is used for,... Read more »
This one-day workshop will provide a hands-on, guided introduction to working with US Census data using tidycensus in R. The course will focus on using geographically-referenced demographic and socioeconomic data from the decennial census and American Community Survey. Participants will learn how to acquire data, perform basic data preprocessing tasks, create basic visualizations, and perform... Read more »
This course is focused on an introduction to data analytics followed by hands-on exercises. It is tailored for beginners and researchers who want to learn how to perform data analytics in a visual programming environment. We will specifically concentrate on one aspect of data analytics called supervised predictive learning. Two types of predictive learning will... Read more »
This course is intended for individuals with research questions that can be answered using multivariate time series data/intensive longitudinal data. Examples of such data include daily diary data; data collected via self-report through ecological momentary sampling (ESM); passive data from cell phones; and other psychophysiological data such as MRI data or heart rate data. Contact... Read more »
Like Coffee and Yoga? Check out this session! Coffee breaks in the workplace serve as more than a quick fix for midday slumps, increased alertness, and productivity. The practice also produces a mentally healthy work environment by reducing stress and burnout and increases a sense of belongingness by building community with colleagues. Yoga, a form... Read more »
This course will be offered ONLINE. It will not be recorded as there are in-class activities. This is a 2 hour course.Behavioral researchers are often interested in change within-persons over time that may occur due to environmental phenomenon or during the course of an intervention. In some circumstances there is a question of both whether and... Read more »
This course will cover a number of unsupervised learning techniques for finding patterns and associations in Big Data. These include dimension reduction techniques such as principal components analysis and non-negative matrix factorization, clustering analysis and significance analysis, and network analysis with graphical models. The main emphasis will be on the analysis of real data sets... Read more »
This course is being offered in collaboration between the Odum Institute and the Center for Urban & Regional Studies. This hands-on course will focus on the use of Google Earth Engine (GEE) for urban research applications. It will demonstrate how free and open-source satellite imagery can be utilized to map urban areas and urbanization trends... Read more »
