Cathie Marsh Institute Short Courses present
"Introduction to R" and "Social Media for Data Analysis"
Introduction to R<https://www.cmist.manchester.ac.uk/study/short/introductory/intro-to-r/>
16th October 2017
This one day course aims to provide a basic introduction to R for those with no previous experience with this statistical programming language. We will discuss some of the motivations to use R (instead of other applications) and provide a practical introduction to the basic grammar of R language. Specifically, we will cover how to create and import data into R and provide an overview of the basic procedures available for visualising and describing data. To illustrate the use of R, we will get practical, hands-on experience of using standard statistical techniques.By the end of the day you should:
* Be familiar with different GUIs and environments that are used to interact with R and to be comfortable with communicating in syntax
* Understand the basic structure of the R language and how R stores data on its memory
* Be able to produce basic data visualisations
* Be able to fit standard statistical models in R
* Know where to go next in order to strengthen your R training
Basic training on statistics (introductory statistics) will be assumed, but nothing else.
Social Media Data Analysis<https://www.cmist.manchester.ac.uk/study/short/introductory/social-media-data-analysis/>
27th October 2017
This course describes how to use free Windows software Mozdeh to gather tweets and to download comments on YouTube videos. The course will also describe simple methods to gain insights into the meaning of the downloaded texts and to identify patterns within the data. Objectives
* Gather tweets from a set of named users or tweets matching one or more keyword queries.
* Gather comments on one or more YouTube videos.
* Analyse the texts with simple big data methods: word association mining, gender, sentiment and time difference detection and association mining, time series graphs and networks of user interactions.
* Analyse the texts with content analysis.
Participants should have a basic familiarity with YouTube and Twitter, and be prepared to learn to use new software. Familiarity with Microsoft Windows.
Please click here to book<https://www.cmist.manchester.ac.uk/study/short/booking/> your place. You can also see our full range of Cathie Marsh Institute Short Courses<http://www.cmist.manchester.ac.uk/study/short/list/> for 2017-2018.
We look forward to seeing you soon.
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