Research

OpenRefine is a handy desktop application that can help clean inconsistent data. This session will introduce the program and how it can be used to get an overview of a dataset, resolve inconsistencies, split data into granular parts, and match local data points to external datasets.

Covid 19 has affected people's lives in many ways all over the world.

Join the Center for Research Computing for a webinar demonstrating the use of Rice's ORION Private Research Cloud. Topics covered will include:

Come see what all the hype is about in artificial intelligence and deep learning! We'll build simple neural networks and apply them to tasks such as handwriting recognition.

This course is taught by Corrin Fosmire. Please contact him at dataworkshop@rice.edu if you need to cancel your registration or have any questions.

Learn to automate repetitive, day-to-day tasks to maximize your productivity. We'll cover the most useful features of the Unix Bourne-Again Shell, such as aliases, functions, variables, and rudimentary regular expressions.

This course is taught by Corrin Fosmire. Please contact him at dataworkshop@rice.edu if you need to cancel your registration or have any questions.

So you’ve hand-made a spreadsheet with thousands of entries. You’ve got pivot tables and record lookups and formulas you don’t even remember writing from months back. Excel is freaking out and crashing all the time. It’s time to use a database! In this class, you will learn how to store, retrieve, and link your data in a structured way using SQL. We will use a database hosted on Rice servers and log in together for our exercises.

Did you know that the popular R data visualization library ggplot was created by a Rice professor? Come take this course to learn all about the power of R and ggplot, including plot styles, aesthetic mappings, geometric objects, and statistical transformations. 

In this workshop, we will collect Yelp reviews for Houston Restaurants and work with Yelp REST APIs. It will be a hands-on session.

This course is taught by Corrin Fosmire. Please contact him at dataworkshop@rice.edu if you need to cancel your registration or have any questions.

This course will teach the basics of time series analysis, a statistical approach to dealing with sequential data sets. We'll cover trends, autocorrelation, moving averages, and modeling with Facebook's prophet library, all with stock markets as a motivating example!

GitHub is an incredibly powerful tool for version control management - a must-know skill for developers, researchers, and anyone who uses a command line often in their work. Come learn about the basics of Git and GitHub, access an interactive class repository and make your first pull request!

Please contact him at dataworkshop@rice.edu if you need to cancel your registration or have any questions.