This free workshop series, sponsored by Fondren Library and the Center for Research Computing, provides hands-on training in the basics of organizing, documenting, analyzing, and visualizing your data.

Spring 2020 workshops include:

• • Using Excel to Manage and Analyze Data
  • Excel Pivot Tables
  • Introduction to Time Series Analysis
  • Introduction to Access
  • Introduction to SQL
  • How to Share Your Data
  • The Absolute Basics of Jupyter Notebooks
  • Introduction to GitHub
  • Introduction to R
  • Introduction to Shell Scripting in Bash
  • R Visualization & Data Manipulation
  • Python for Beginners
  • Python-Pandas
  • Python Visualization with Matplotlib
  • Web Scraping with Python
  • Introduction to Rice’s Research Computing Infrastructure
  • Excel Charts Tips for Visualizing Data
  • R visualization with ggplot2

Course descriptions and registration can be found on the library website.

One-on-one consultation is also available. Open office hours for help with R, Python, or GitHub is available 9:00 a.m.-10:00 a.m. on Tuesdays or 1:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m. on Thursdays in the GIS-Data Center classroom (basement of Fondren Library). For assistance with issues related to data management, Excel, and other topics, please schedule an appointment using the library’s request form.