Do you work with research data in spreadsheets? Learn best practices for organizing and cleaning your data in spreadsheets, and how to use OpenRefine, a powerful tool for cleaning and transforming messy data.
Are you accessing or generating data for your research?
Do you have data scattered across multiple files and trying to figure out how to combine that data?
Learn SQL, the very powerful, open source data management language.
This one-day course is for graduate students, advanced undergraduates, faculty, and other researchers. Prior experience with these tools is not required.
Instructors: Jennifer Chaput, Kendra Maas
Participants must bring a laptop with a Mac, Linux, or Windows operating system (not a tablet, Chromebook, etc.) that they have administrative privileges to install software on.
12/16 8:30am-4:30pm, Instruction Room 1102, Babbidge Library
There is a $15 registration fee which includes light refreshments.
Please register at s.uconn.edu/1216workshop
Accessibility: We are committed to making this workshop accessible to everybody. The workshop organizers have checked that:
• The room is wheelchair / scooter accessible.
• Accessible and gender neutral restrooms are available.
Syllabus:
• Tidy Data with Spreadsheets
• OpenRefine
• SQL
For more information, contact: Jennifer Chaput at jennifer.chaput@uconn.edu