Webinars
30 June 2016, 15.00 - 16.00
MongoDB is an open source document based database system. It is designed to scale well for big datasets consisting of 100s of millions of documents.
Instead of traditional tables with rows of data (as used in relational database systems like SQL Server or Oracle) MongoDB Databases consist of
collections of documents. Each document, broadly equivalent to a row in a table, is stored in a JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) -like format which allows documents in the same collection to have different structures or elements.
This webinar will provide an overview of:
• Installing and running MongoDB on a Windows PC
• Examples of storing and retrieving data in MongoDB using code
• Examples of ‘slicing’ and ‘dicing’ data in MongoDB collections
This webinar is intended for researchers with no in-depth knowledge of programming with data. However, attendees are more likely to find this webinar
of interest if they already have some idea of JSON formatted data, perhaps from a raw Twitter feed.
Workshops
14 June 2016
University of Essex, Room 2N2.4.16, 14.00-16.00
Do you need to write a data management plan for your research grant application? Or does your institution encourage you to develop one?
UK Research Councils and other public funders see it as a priority to make research data available to users, and therefore for data to be managed
well during research and shared afterwards. One way to achieve this is through a data management plan that funders request to be submitted with each research grant application.
During this workshop we will share the current data management requirements of UK and EU funding bodies. We will showcase tools, templates and examples
you can use when developing a data management plan; and share practical tips and key issues to consider when writing a plan. We will also discuss how can you cost data management and sharing for your proposal. We will evaluate and discuss example plans and
participants can develop a plan for their research project.
Managing, sharing and archiving social science
research data
15 June 2016
UK Data Archive, University of Essex
Are you comfortable with managing, organising and storing your research data safely? Are you confident handling the ethical aspects of collecting,
managing and sharing sensitive data? Do you know how to deposit your data with the UK Data Service?
This full-day workshop will address these questions and improve your knowledge and skills on the management and archiving of social science research
data questions in an interactive, hands-on setting. This workshop is designed in particular for ESRC grant holders, researchers and research managers at ERSC research centres, who are expected to archive their data with the UK Data Service for future reuse.
Also other researchers interested in archiving data to make them available for reuse or as evidence for a published paper will benefit from this workshop. Presentations are complemented by practical short exercises and research-specific discussions.
Exploring Longterm Trends in Social Attitudes
and Crime
16 June 2016
School of Law, University of Sheffield
Exploring why change takes place and the implications of both changes and stability is of growing importance for social scientists. Yet the limited
availability of datasets which enable these sorts of analyses hampers efforts.
This one-day workshop will introduce a
series of linked datasets which will enable analysts to explore long runs of repeated cross-sectional datasets such as the British Social Attitudes Survey, the British Crime Survey and the British Election Survey, as well as macro-level datasets. The datasets
were collated as part of an ESRC-funded project exploring long-term trends in social attitudes, government policies and crime since the 1970s.
Introduction to
big data manipulation using Hive
Friday 24 June 2016
University of Manchester
Hive is a package that allows users to manipulate large datasets within the Hadoop environment with the aim of either making the data small enough
to analyse on a desktop package such as Stata or R, or of doing analyses within the Hadoop environment itself.
In this workshop you will be introduced to Hive and the Hive query language (HiveQL) within a Hortonworks Hadoop Data Platform (HDP) environment.
This course will cover how to:
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load big datasets into the Hadoop file system and how to process them using Hive
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run simple queries using HiveQL enabling you to start exploring the contents of a dataset
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‘slice’ and ‘dice’ the dataset into smaller datasets which can be consumed by traditional desktop applications
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access Hive tables from R using Open database connector
This workshop is free and is intended for researchers with experience of doing quantitative research. It will be of most interest to researchers
who have used commands in packages like Stata, R or SPSS but have no in-depth knowledge of programming with data.
The format of the workshop will be a mixture of presentations and hands-on practical exercises using Hive. Laptops will be provided for this workshop
with all necessary software.
Places are limited so early booking is recommended. Please only book if you are sure you can attend.
Conferences
Health surveys user conference 2016
29 June 2016
University College London
The annual Health surveys user conference is organised by the UK Data Service and is free to attend. The morning sessions will allow users to hear
updates from the data producers on the main UK health surveys and other surveys with health-related content. The afternoon sessions will comprise of presentations from researchers using health survey data.
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