This training will cover advanced features in building surveys in Qualtrics. Participants must already have a university Qualtrics account and solid working knowledge of Qualtrics. Some portions will be hands-on; others will be demonstration only. Topics will include some but not all of the following: adv features of survey flow, creating & using embedded data,... Read more »
The purpose of this course is to present best practices for creating graphics from survey data and provide guidance for developing a critical eye that will allow attendees to best... Read more »
This course aims to offer an introduction to Python with a focus on data and data analytics. It will introduce basic Python programming logic, approaches to create, store, and interact... Read more »
This three-day (2/21, 2/23 and 2/25) course introduces students to Stata and data management. It is tailored for beginners and researchers who want to learn how to manage data more... Read more »
Focus groups are commonly used to capture rich information about attitudes and beliefs. This class will prepare prospective students to organize and moderate focus groups. Students will learn the most appropriate uses of focus groups, how to segment and recruit audiences, how to develop a moderator’s guide, and how to moderate focus groups. The class... Read more »
In the face of increasing awareness of the need to capture the diversity of human experience, there has also been increasing concern to study and describe populations from a critical and equitable perspective. As science is itself a cultural practice, and knowledge production can perpetuate social inequalities prevalent in social systems, many times, as scholars... Read more »
This three-day (2/21, 2/23 and 2/25) course introduces students to Stata and data management. It is tailored for beginners and researchers who want to learn how to manage data more... Read more »
Focus groups are commonly used to capture rich information about attitudes and beliefs. This class will prepare prospective students to organize and moderate focus groups. Students will learn the most appropriate uses of focus groups, how to segment and recruit audiences, how to develop a moderator’s guide, and how to moderate focus groups. The class... Read more »
This three-day (2/21, 2/23 and 2/25) course introduces students to Stata and data management. It is tailored for beginners and researchers who want to learn how to manage data more effectively. Each day, the class will demonstrate how to use the commands, followed by hands-on exercises using sample datasets. Learn more and register.
This course will teach participants how to use the programming language Julia to load, clean, plot, and analyze social-science data. Julia is a newer programming language with a focus on high-performance scientific computing, and it allows efficient manipulation of large datasets. The course will cover the basics of loading tabular data; cleaning, filtering, and joining... Read more »
What is the role of social and behavioral research in genomics? Join the Precision Public Health Future Leader Network for a virtual lecture by Dr. Colleen McBride from Emory University... Read more »
This course provides training on evaluating public services and programs. At the end of the course, participants will understand and be able to describe program evaluation, and how it can help you understand the basics of assessing program impact. No prior experience is necessary. This course will not teach specific statistical or qualitative methods, but... Read more »
This course teaches students when and how to use logistic regression models. At the end of the course, students will be able to fit models, estimate and interpret results in... Read more »
This short course will provide an overview of statistical machine learning and data mining techniques with applications to the analysis of real data. Supervised learning techniques will be covered, including penalized regression such as LASSO and its variants, support vector machines. The main emphasis will be on the analysis of real data sets from various... Read more »
This 2-day (3/28 and 3/30) 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 – including electro-optical (EO) and Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery – can be utilized to map urban areas and urbanization trends and patterns, across space... Read more »
