Workshop: R Statistical Software in Action for Newcomers

R   Statistical Software in Action for Newcomers
- in Kooperation mit dem Kompetenzzentrum für empirische Forschungsmethoden -

R is a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics that has gained widespread acceptance in the worldwide research community. This is due to several reasons:
It is an open source solution and a comprehensive statistical software that has state-of-the-art graphic capabilities and offers enormous flexibility. R can perform a broad and ever-growing range of analyses and data manipulation tasks.
 
This introductory workshop will not focus on any one of them in particular. Instead, the objective of the workshop will be to teach the basic knowledge needed to use R independently, thus helping you as participant initiate your own process of learning the specific tools needed for your research.
 

For all researchers at any stage of their career, who want to get an overview of the R Studio interface, basic R syntax, and programming best-practices.

Workshop Content and Goals

The workshop will include some structured lectures, but emphasizes on practical exercises.
By learning the foundations of R, you will be able to bring your statistical analysis and data visualization skills to the next level.
 

• Grammar, objects, data types: Learn to import and explore data in R
• Finding and installing packages
• Basics of running statistical models
• Data visualization
• Resources for practicing and building R programing skills

Prior Knowledge and Preparation

A basic understanding of programing is helpful, but not required. The workshop will take place in a computer lab where computers are equipped with R and RStudio. However, participants may also use their own laptops as R and RStudio are available free of charge for all major operating systems – one of the many benefits of R. If you wish to do so you will be expected to have installed R and RStudio prior to coming to the workshop.

Workshop Format

The workshop involves a mix of slides, collaborative hands-on material and exercises.

Location, Date and Time

Monday, 10 December 2018, 9.30 am - 5.00 pm
Tuesday, 11 December 2018, 9.00 am - 1.30 pm

All registered participants will be informed of the location by email one week before the event.

Fees and Registration

This workshop is open to a limited number of participants. The registration deadline is 26 November 2018.

Please note that you should notify us before the registration deadline if you are unable to attend the workshop. Otherwise the full fee will be charged.
Please let the Personnel Development and Planning Office know if you will not be attending. There are often waiting lists for the workshops, and this will give one of your colleagues the chance to attend. In addition, if we can fill the vacancy with someone from the waiting list, no cancellation charges will apply for you.

To sign up for this workshop, please click "Register" at the bottom of this page. For any further information please contact Elke Rittersbacher (elke.rittersbacher@wu.ac.at, DW 4448).

The course fee is €30.

Trainer

Arndt Leininger   Arndt Leininger is a research fellow at the Chair for Political Sociology at Freie Universität Berlin. He holds a PhD in Governance from the Hertie School of Governance, Berlin, and an MSc in Political Science and Political Economy from the London School of Economics and Political Science. His areas of research are in comparative politics and applied quantitative methods. Arndt is interested in direct democracy, turnout, election forecasting, economic voting and electoral studies more broadly.