ScienceIT at Berkeley Lab has partnered with D-Lab to offer our workshops to you. Following is a list of upcoming workshops on Python, R Programming, and SQL databases. To register for the workshops listed below, click on the link below to read the description, and then click the link to register via the partner portal for your organization.
If you cannot attend the workshop live, you can receive a recording of it via email 24-48 hours with a recording of the workshop after the workshop (or workshop series) has completed as long as you register ahead of time.
Following is a list of the December workshops:
Digital Humanities Working Group (December 2024)
December 2, 2024
The UC Berkeley Digital Humanities Working Group is a research community founded to facilitate interdisciplinary conversations in the digital humanities and cultural analytics. Our gatherings are participant driven and provide a place for sharing research ideas (including brainstorming new ideas…
R Fundamentals: Parts 1-4
December 9, 2024
This workshop is a four-part introductory series that will teach you R from scratch with clear introductions, concise examples, and support documents. You will learn how to download and install the open-sourced R Studio software, understand data and basic manipulations, import and subset data,…
SQL Database Fundamentals for Data Analysis
December 9, 2024
This workshop introduces the fundamentals of SQL, with a focus on using SQLite (the most ubiquitous database on the planet) for data science tasks. We’ll explore how SQL can be used to query and manipulate relational databases, leveraging pandas to interact with the results in Python. This hands-on…
Python Fundamentals: Parts 1-3
December 9, 2024
This three-part interactive workshop series is your complete introduction to programming Python for people with little or no previous programming experience. By the end of the series, you will be able to apply your knowledge of basic principles of programming and data manipulation to a real-world…
Command Line Fundamentals
December 10, 2024
In this workshop, we provide a basic introduction to how to interact with your computer via terminal. We are going to focus on Bash (Bourne-Again Shell) or Zsh (Z Shell), which are one of the most commonly used Unix/Linux shells.
Cloud SQL Databases for Social Media Data
December 10, 2024
This is a hands-on workshop on analyzing Social Media Data using Cloud Databases, specifically Google Cloud Platform’s BigQuery. In this session, you’ll learn how to leverage existing Reddit and other publicly available datasets in the cloud, import additional data, and perform meaningful analyses…
LLMs for Exploratory Research
December 10, 2024
In a fast evolving artificial intelligence landscape, LLMs such as GPT have become a common buzzword. In the research community, their advantages and pitfalls are hotly debated. In this workshop, we will explore different chatbots powered by LLMs, beyond just ChatGPT. Our main goal will be to…
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