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- Re-opening schedule for spring 2022 -

Monday, January 24 - Friday, January 28
Our consulting ticketing system is open! We are taking consulting ticket requests through our online ticketing system - submit a request here! We will offer consultations via email or scheduled personal Zoom meetings. During this time our virtual front desk will be closed and we will not offer workshops or consulting drop-in hours. 

Monday, January 31
Official virtual re-opening! We are offering workshops, consultation appointments, and drop-in consulting hours via our virtual front desk. Stop by to say hi!

https://dlab.berkeley.edu/frontdesk

- Blog Post -


Is your Random Sample Really Random?

by Josh Everts


One of the frequent ways people can run into random numbers is through their research. We often hear the term “random sample,” or a “randomized” assignment to control. Or, sometimes, we can randomly select a certain number of rows or columns from data to perform an analysis on a representative snapshot of the data... read more.

- D-Lab Workshops -

R Fundamentals: Parts 1-4
Jan 31, Feb 2, 7, 9 | 9am-12pm | Register for Zoom link

Python Fundamentals: Parts 1-4
Feb 1, 3, 8, 10 | 2pm-5pm | Register for Zoom link

Geospatial Fundamentals with QGIS: Parts 1-2
Feb 1, 3 | 3pm-6pm | Register for Zoom link

R Data Wrangling and Manipulation: Parts 1-2
Feb 1, 3 | 9am-12pm | Register for Zoom link

Python Intro to Machine Learning: Parts 1-2
Feb 7, 9 | 10am-1pm | Register for Zoom link

Introduction to Bash + Git
Feb 7 | 2pm-5pm | Register for Zoom link

R Visualization
Feb 10 | 5pm-8pm | Register for Zoom link

Stata Fundamentals: Parts 1-3
Feb 14, 16, 23 | 3pm-6pm | Register for Zoom link

Python Fundamentals: Parts 1-2
Feb 14, 16 | 4pm-7pm | Register for Zoom link

Python Data Wrangling and Manipulation with Pandas
Feb 15 | 9am-12pm | Register for Zoom link

R Fundamentals: Parts 1-2
Feb 15, 17 | 5pm-8pm | Register for Zoom link

Python Visualization
Feb 17 | 9am-12pm | Register for Zoom link


Keep an eye on our events calendar for upcoming workshops!

- Featured Events -

Computational Social Science Forum
Feb 1 | 4pm-5pm | Read more and Register here
Partial Perspectives and Situated Knowledges: Radical Objectivity using Computational Methods
Speaker: Laura K. NelsonUniversity of British Columbia 


UC Love Data Week
February 14-18, 2022
UC Love Data Week is a week-long offering of presentations and workshops focused on data access, management, security, sharing, and preservation.  For more information and to register for a specific workshop, please visit the website: https://uc-love-data-week.github.io/

- Data Science Undergraduate Workshops -

Introduction to Data Analysis and Visualization 

This peer-led series of workshops is designed by undergraduates in collaboration with the Library Data Services Program to help undergraduates learn python basics for data analysis and visualization. Developed from the Software Carpentry Curriculum, undergraduate Data Peers will lead workshops to introduce basic data manipulation and visualization with Python. Each workshop is designed to act as a starting point for learning concepts and will familiarize attendees with additional resources for getting help. Unless you are already familiar with Python, these workshops are best taken as a successive series.

Data Analysis using NumPy: Jan 27 | 7pm-8:15pm
Data Manipulation using pandas: Feb 1 | 7pm-8:15pm
Creating Visualizations with Python: Feb 3 | 7pm-8:15pm


Working with Qualitative and Textual Data

This series of workshops is designed to help graduate and undergraduate students work with qualitative and textual data. Sessions include cleaning and coding qualitative data in MaxQDA and the open-source Taguette program, organizing and writing up research projects in Scrivener, and archiving qualitative data once a project has been completed. Each workshop is designed to act as a starting point for learning concepts and will familiarize attendees with additional resources for getting help.

Archiving data with the Qualitative Data Repository (QDR): Jan 26 | 10am-11am
What do I do with all of this text? Cleaning and coding data for qualitative analysis:
Feb 15 | 10am-12pm
Getting Started with MaxQDA: March 14 | 1pm-3pm
Introduction to Scrivener: April 18 | 1pm-3pm

- Other Events and Opportunities -
Do No Harm with Data Viz
Feb 17 | 2pm-3pm EST | Read more and register
Speaker: Alice Feng, Data Visualization Developer

 Data Science for Social Good program
Accepting applications for students to be part of a collaborative team working full-time on an applied research project that has concrete social relevance and impact. Read more about the program.
Application deadline: Feb 14

Women in Data Science (WiDS) Worldwide Conference
March 7 | 6am-6pm | Read more and register here
A technical conference featuring outstanding women doing exceptional work in data science and related fields, in a wide variety of domains. Everyone is welcome and encouraged to attend.


WiDS Berkeley Conference
Since 2016, UC Berkeley has hosted its own WiDS event. In 2022, the WiDS Berkeley Conference will be hosted virtually during the week of March 7-11. On Tuesday, March 8, WiDS Berkeley will host a series of lightning talks (5-10 mins) that showcase completed and/or in progress data science projects led by UC Berkeley students. 
Submit a proposal here!
Deadline for submission: Jan 31


Office of the Vice-Chancellor for Research is hiring
Major Gifts Officer position description is here
and
Program Director position description is here

Criminal Justice Administrative Records System (CJARS) is hiring
Open positions: Two Research Assistant positions and one Project Manager position
Read more for description and how to apply


Socio-Spatial Climate Collaborative (SC)² is hiring
Read more
Open positions: Research Assistant for Whole Community Climate Mapping and Research Assistant for Data Fusion and Analysis


Haas Scholars Program
Read more and apply here
Application deadline: Feb 16


International Conference on Computational Social Science
Chicago, IL | July 19-22, 2022
8th International Conference on Computational Social Science
Read more


The Judith Lee Stronach Baccalaureate Prize
Interested students are highly encouraged to attend an info session... read more for further information.


CEGA is hiring
Read here for all open positions

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