Brown Bag on Web Scraping Essentials: Bring Your Own Lunch + Website Presenter: Mike Tzen Abstract: In this bring your own lunch brown bag, we’ll discuss the essentials of getting data through web scraping. Most importantly, we’ll jump straight into ‘CSS Selectors’ as it's the key ingredient in telling computers how to surf the web […]
Presenters: Edward Moss Assistant Director for Computing Services California Center for Population Research Mike Tzen Assistant Director for Statistics and Methods Services California Center for Population Research Data analysis of large and highly complex datasets is extremely resource intensive, and inadequate computing resources can cause data analysis to slow to a crawl if it’s […]
"R 4 Stata Users"
This workshop is a brown bag forum. Participants are encouraged to bring in tangible questions they wish to explore using R. To serve as a background road map, the instructor will provide an abbreviated sample of what he thinks are the most useful features of R. However, the goal is to have participants ask questions that the collective group can figure out using R. Any R question is fair game, for example: questions about fundamental R concepts or even questions about how to run Stata-equivalent R commands. Participants will be provided access to Rstudio, so please bring a laptop.
This CCPR brown-bag is intended to be an open forum that complements the 3 great resources below. Please see the resources, especially the first one.
1) 10 minute demo: interactive call–response slideshow of R basics
http://tryr.codeschool.com/
2) Worked out examples from a UCLA IDRE workshop on R concepts
https://stats.idre.ucla.edu/r/seminars/intro/
3) R 4 Data Science e-book
http://r4ds.had.co.nz/
Instructor: Michael Tzen PLEASE BRING A PERSONAL LAPTOP Content: Researchers go through fundamental steps in a data analysis project. This workshop highlights key steps in a data analyst's workflow and encourages transparency in each of the steps. Throughout this workshop, we go through hands on exercises that integrate: a transparency engine, obtaining federal API data, […]
Instructor: Michael Tzen Title: Getting your Computational Tools for Research Location: October 25, 2018, 2:00-3:00 PM 4240 Public Affairs Building CCPR Seminar Room Content: We'll get you started on Github, Rstudio, Stata, and accessing Hoffman2 (UCLA's high performance computing cluster). Please RSVP below https://goo.gl/forms/W6hkM3bnOjfnYGJw2 slides
Instructor: Michael Tzen Title: Merging Entities: Deterministic, Approximate, & Probabilistic Location: January 31, 2019, 2:00-3:00 PM 4240 Public Affairs Building CCPR Seminar Room Content: Combining information from different groups is a fundamental procedure in the data analysis pipeline. Using NBA and NCAA data, we will walk through deterministic, approximate, and probabilistic methods to merge entities […]
Title: Getting All Your Research Computing Tools for Summer and Beyond - Hardware and Software Location: May 22, 2019 @ 12:00-1:30 PM 4240 Public Affairs Building CCPR Seminar Room Instructors: Matt Lahmann & Mike Tzen Content: We’ll get CCPR researchers all the computing tools for a productive summer of data science exploration. We'll get you […]
Title: Getting The Data Yourself: A Web Scraping Code Through Location: May 29, 2019 @ 12:00-1:30 PM 4240 Public Affairs Building CCPR Seminar Room Instructors: Chad Pickering & Mike Tzen Content: We’ll empower CCPR researchers to get the domain-relevant data they want slides exercise
The purpose of the Summer Institute is to bring together graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and early career faculty interested in computational social science. The Summer Institute is open to both social scientists (broadly conceived) and data scientists (broadly conceived).
Summer Institute in Computational Social Science Panel Presentation
Friday June 21, 2019 2:00pm – 5:00pm
Reception 5:00pm – 6:00pm
Luskin Conference Center Laureate Room
• 2:00pm – 3:15pm Digital Demography
Prof. Dennis Feehan, UC Berkeley and Prof. Ka-Yuet Liu, UCLA
• 3:30pm – 4:45pm Computational Causal Inference
Prof. Judea Pearl, UCLA and Prof. Sam Pimentel, UC Berkeley
Data Carpentry develops and teaches workshops on the fundamental data skills needed to conduct research. Its target audience is researchers who have little to no prior computational experience, and its lessons are domain specific, building on learners' existing knowledge to enable them to quickly apply skills learned to their own research. Participants will be encouraged […]
Instructor: Matt Lahmann We'll get you signed up for hoffman2 and TS2. With Hoffman2 and TS2, you'll have state of the art hardware resources and most software you'll ever need for research. RSVP Signup via https://forms.gle/FgGuPdqQdF3RLVzC8
Instructor: Mike Tzen Using a very common data analysis scenario of "Group-(Split)-Apply-Combine", we'll show you how to make the most of cutting edge powerful hardware in both Hoffman2 and TS2. RSVP signup via https://forms.gle/i9fXG2Dcbw8L5AG38 slides rscript
CCPR June 15 – 26, 2020 4240 Public Affairs Building The purpose of the Summer Institute is to bring together graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and early career faculty interested in computational social science. The Summer Institute is open to both social scientists (broadly conceived) and data scientists (broadly conceived).
Instructor: Matt Lahmann Instructor: Mike Tzen This workshop has two halves. In the first half, we will dive into the 3 main computing resources that CCPR offers to affiliates, including it's remote and on campus offerings. At the end of the first half, we'll get participants signed up for hoffman2 and TS2. Once signed up, […]
Practical Web Technologies for Social Scientists Date: Thursday, April 8, 2021 Time: 1:00pm - 2:30pm Instructor: Neal Fultz This workshop will introduce the alphabet soup of technologies powering the modern web; TCP/IP, HTTP, HTML, XML, JSON, REST APIs, OAUTH, SSL, AWS, among others. Attendees will build up enough background knowledge to begin scraping data from […]
Instructor: Matt Lahmann Instructor: Mike Tzen This workshop has two halves. In the first half, we will dive into the 3 main computing resources that CCPR offers to affiliates, including it’s remote and on campus offerings. At the end of the first half, we’ll get participants signed up for hoffman2 and TS2. Once signed up, […]
Instructor: Matt Lahmann Instructor: Mike Tzen This workshop has two halves. In the first half, we will dive into the 3 main computing resources that CCPR offers to affiliates, including it’s remote and on campus offerings. At the end of the first half, we’ll get participants signed up for hoffman2 and TS2. Once signed up, […]
Workshop: CCPR Computing Resources Overview Instructor: Matt Lahmann Instructor: Mike Tzen This workshop has two halves. In the first half, we will dive into the 3 main computing resources that CCPR offers to affiliates, including it’s remote and on campus offerings. At the end of the first half, we’ll get participants signed up for hoffman2 […]
CCPR Workshop: Computing Resources Overview Jan 18, 2022, 12:00pm-1:30pm Presenters: Matt Lahmann This workshop has two halves. In the first half, we will dive into the 3 main computing resources that CCPR offers to affiliates, including it’s remote and on campus offerings. At the end of the first half, we’ll get participants signed up for […]
