2018-2019 Computational Methods Workshops
Hello friends and colleagues!
The computational methods group will begin our workshops this Friday, on September 14th. We will meet weekly in Nafziger at 3:30 (workshops will occasionally be held later). This Friday, we will be going over the basics of R and data science, including some commands in dplyr.
No prior experience in R, statistics, or programming is necessary. Though each class can operate as a stand-alone workshop, their skillsets build upon one another.
Below is a schedule of our workshops:
| Date | Topic | Tools |
| Sept 14 | Setting up R, data wrangling basics | dplyr (R) |
| Sept 21 | Data collection – MediaCloud | MediaCloud archive and Python |
| Sept 28 | No meeting | |
| Oct 5 | Data collection – scraping | rvest(R) |
| Oct 12 | No meeting | |
| Oct 19 | Data collection – Working with Twitter Data | tweetr (R) |
| Oct 26 | Text Analysis – tidytext | tidytext (R) |
| Nov 2 | Text Analysis – Programs with GUIs (Graphic User Interfaces) [may begin late] | LIWC, Diction, and Leximancer |
| Nov 9 | Reporting Results – LaTeX [may begin late] | LaTeX |
| Nov 16 | Reporting Results – rmarkdown [may begin late] | rmarkdown (R) |
| Nov 23 | THANKSGIVING | |
| Nov 30 | Reporting Results – Data visualization | ggplot2 (R) |
| Dec 7 | Text Analysis II – quanteda | quanteda (R) |
Prior to our first meeting, please make sure you have downloaded and installed R and RStudio.
You can install R from here: https://www.r-project.org/
You can install Rstudio from here: https://www.rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download/#download
Best,
Jo