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- D-Lab virtual space is open! -

Our virtual space is open to the public! We are offering workshops and drop-in consulting hours via our virtual front desk. Stop by to say hi!

https://dlab.berkeley.edu/frontdesk

Front desk open hours: Mon-Fri, 8:30am-5pm
Drop-in consulting: Mon-Fri, 10am-4pm
Check the availability of a specific consultant here

- D-Lab is Hiring! -

D-Lab is hiring workshop instructors

Experience:
For Spring 2022 we are recruiting registered UC Berkeley graduate students for instruction. Instructors will teach online introductory, intermediate, and advanced workshops. We welcome those with Python and R competencies, but we would also like to highlight we need applicants with the following skills as well:
MAXQDA, Python, Stata, Tableau 

Qualifications:
Demonstrated competency in one or more of the above listed areas
Must be a registered UC Berkeley graduate student in the semester in which you teach.
 
More details here and apply here
- Blog Post -







Enumeration of Informal Work

by Irene Farah

The first time that I mapped out poverty statistics at a municipal scale, I was completely mind blown (figure 1). Looking at the spatial inequities from a bird’s-eye view drove my desire to find more granular data of social indicators to better understand intra-urban socioeconomic inequities...read more


Twitter data extraction with Selenium

by Seyi Olojo

With online communities and social networks serving as important sites for computational social science research, Twitter has quickly become a popular data source for researchers (Frey et al. (2020), Kusen et al. (2017), Rao et al. (2010) and Ru et al. (2021)). This blog post will demonstrate one way to extract twitter data without using the Twitter API...read more
- D-Lab Workshops -

IRB and Health Workshops

Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) Fundamentals
Mar 17 | 3pm-6pm | Register for Zoom link

Finding Health Statistics and Data
Mar 17 | 2pm-3:30pm | Register for Zoom link


Evening Workshops

R Fundamentals: Parts 1 & 2
Mar 28, 30  |  5pm-8pm  | Register for Zoom link

Python Data Wrangling and Manipulation with Pandas
Mar 29 | 5pm-8pm | Register for Zoom link

Python Fundamentals: Parts 1 & 2
Mar 29, 31 | 4pm-7pm | Register for Zoom link

Python Visualization
Mar 31 | 5pm-8pm | Register for Zoom link


Geospatial Workshops

R Census Data Wrangling and Mapping
Mar 15  | 12pm-3pm | Register for Zoom link

R Geospatial Fundamentals: Raster Data
Mar 16 | 10am-1pm | Register for Zoom link

R Geospatial Fundamentals: Vector Data, Parts 1-2
Mar 7, 9 | 10am-1pm | Register for Zoom link


Upcoming Workshops

Python Web Scraping
Mar 7 | 10am-1pm | Register for Zoom link

Python Fundamentals: Parts 1-4
Mar 7, 9, 14,16 | 1pm-4pm | Register for Zoom link

R Fundamentals: Parts 1-4
Mar 8, 10, 15, 17 | 10am-1pm | Register for Zoom link

Stata Fundamentals: Parts 1-3
Mar 8, 10, 15 | 1pm-4pm | Register for Zoom link

Keep an eye on our events calendar for upcoming workshops!

- Featured Events -

Computational Social Science Forum
An update on European disinformation policy
Mar 8 | 4pm-5pm | Read more and Register here

Speaker: Anni HellmanDeputy Head of Unit, BIDS Visiting Fellow, EU Commission Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology


Women in Data Science Berkeley 2022
Mar 7-9 | Read more | Register here

March 7 WiDS Worldwide, March 8 - 9, 2022 WiDS Berkeley Virtual on zoom
Join us for a series of events celebrating Women in Data Science at UC Berkeley

- Other Events, Articles, and Opportunities -

CDSS Connection: Diversity in STEM

STEM has a diversity problem. CDSS wants to help solve it... read more
Marti Hearst is School of Information’s New Head of School... read more
Meet Ashish Sahni, the new executive director for BIDS... read more
Deb Nolan returns to CDSS as Associate Dean for Faculty... read more
CDSS top communicator, EECS and CCB professors honored by AAAS as 2021 fellows... read more
Immigrants and refugees: Untapped data science potential... read more


A New Frontier in Immigration Research: Historical Record Linkage
Mar 4 | 12pm-2pm | Register here
BIMI is co-sponsoring a special UC-wide training seminar on historical record linkage for immigration research.


CEO Summer Fellowship Program
Department of Labor’s Chief Evaluation Office
Read more | Deadline to apply Mar 28


Digital Publishing Series
Register here
Can I Mine That? Should I Mine That?: A Clinic for Copyright, Ethics & More in TDM Research
Mar 9 | 11am-12:30pm

HTML/CSS Toolkit for Digital ProjectsApr 11 | 3pm-4:30pm

By Design: Graphics & Images BasicsApr 12 | 3:30pm-5pm


Working with Qualitative and Textual Data
Undergraduate workshop series... read more

Getting Started with MaxQDA: Mar 14 | 1pm-3pm
Introduction to Scrivener: Apr 18 | 1pm-3pm


Critical Data Futures: Data & Life in the Metaverse
Mar 18 | 12:30pm-2pm | Free and open to public
Location: Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Read more and Register here


2022 American Casual Inference Conference (ACIC)
May 23-25, 2022 | UC Berkeley | Read more

As part of the conference ACIC will be hosting 8 pre-conference workshops (2 full-day workshops and 6 half-day workshops) on Monday May 23, 2022 on a range of topics. For more information, read more


Academic Technology Specialist Position
 for Stanford History Department
Read more and apply here

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

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