Data Science Institute: Network analysis using R

January 12, 2017
9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
College of Public Health Building

This course will introduce attendees to concepts of social network analysis by illustration. The course will walk through R code, learning what the code does and introducing network concepts along the way. Attendees will leave with knowledge of commonly used R packages useful for network analysis. At least a small amount of prior experience with R is recommended. 

The workshop is a part of the Data Science Institute, a collaborative effort between the Iowa Social Science Research Center (ISRC) and the Iowa Informatics Initiative (UI3). The institute will teach participants about the basic building blocks of coding as applied in the fields of the biological, physical, social sciences, and digital humanities. We welcome faculty, staff, post-docs, graduate and undergraduate students interested in building new skills in informatics. The topics for 2017 include introductions to the Python and R programming languages, geospatial analysis and geovisualization, computational text analysis, and network analysis. Faculty from UI3, computer science, management science and social science will teach the courses in the new Informatics space in the College of Public Health Building on campus. For more information, visit https://uiowa.edu/datascience.

Registration is available at https://uiowa.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_5grNa6fW6aGXEwt. There are no fees associated with the institute. You can register for all the sessions or individual sessions. The schedule is available at https://uiowa.edu/datascience/schedule

The number of seats per session is limited to 40. There will be a waitlist accessed through the registration survey after the quota is filled for each session.

Individuals with disabilities are encouraged to attend all University of Iowa-sponsored events. If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation in order to participate in this program, please contact Dragana Petic at dragana-petic@uiowa.edu.