Spatial Interaction Modelling
21st-22nd March 2017
CMIST, Humanities Bridgeford Street
This two day course is designed to equip participants with the knowledge and skills to build, calibrate and apply powerful spatial interaction models (SIMs). SIMs are used to estimate flows between origins and destinations and have a broad range of applications within geography, planning, transportation, social science and the commercial sector. We assume no prior experience of working with SIMs (or gravity models as they are also known) and focus on both the theoretical and technical components of model building using examples which are intuitively straightforward and familiar to participants (shopping behaviours and migration).
For more information and to book
http://www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/show.php?article=6892
Gathering and analysing social media data from Twitter and YouTube – Due to demand this is a repeat of the same course that took place in January
14th June 2017
CMIST, Humanities Bridgeford Street
This course introduces free Windows-based software for collecting tweets and for downloading the sets of comments on YouTube videos. It also describes a range of keyword, network and graphical methods to analyse the data for social science research purposes, as supported by the software. This is a small scale style of big data research. The course includes a brief discussion of ethical and practical issues associated with social media data analysis. The practical sessions give an introduction to the free program, with supporting documentation for those wishing to become advanced users.
For more information and to book
http://www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/show.php?article=7122
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Training bursaries
The ESRC wishes to improve the standards of research methods and to stimulate the uptake of high quality training courses in research methods across the UK social science community. The bursaries, for up to £500 each, enable staff in the UK social science community engaged in research, teaching research methods or supervising research to update their research skills. Contract researchers working in HEIs are also eligible for the bursaries.
For more information
http://www.ncrm.ac.uk/TandE/bursary/
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