Data Services at University of Oregon Libraries
Welcome back to another post in our series introducing the Data Services team!
Peer Consultants meet with students, lead workshops, and bring energy and inspiration to our work. Quantitative Peer Consultant William Grossman is a graduate student in the Economics program. William can assist you with R programming, data visualization, and regression analysis.
Welcome to a series of posts introducing the Data Services team!
Peer Consultants meet with students, lead workshops, and bring energy and inspiration to our work. Quantitative Peer Consultant Fedi Aniefuna is a senior double majoring in Math and Computer Science. After graduation, he will be starting a job with Amazon as a Systems Developer Engineer. Fedi can assist you with Python programming, data cleaning, troubleshooting, git/GitHub, command line, and working with files and directories.
We are writing to remind you about a few events happening at Data Services this weekend!
If you have been meaning to sign up, now is your chance!
Our Bi-weekly Book Club kicked off today with our first conversation on The Lady Tasting Tea: How Statistics Revolutionized Science in the Twentieth Century. In this four-part series, we are discussing how statistics changed from a specialized niche into an indispensable tool across many disciplines. This book is not a dry history or facts and figures, but a deep dive into the stories of individuals who dared to look at the world in a new way.
Haven’t started reading yet? No problem! We would be delighted if you would join our discussion even if you haven’t read the book. Register to join us at 1:00 pm in person in the Knight Library DREAM Lab or online via zoom. We had a rich discussion today, and would love for you to join us for future sessions.
One Day Workshops for R and Python will be happening this Saturday, October 4, from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm. These workshops are a great opportunity to lay a foundation of skills in a single day so you can get spend the rest of the term using your new abilities! We also want to let you know that both workshops will have free childcare services in the building. Don’t let the little ones hold you back from attending – we’ve got you covered!
The Plotting and Programming in Python workshop will cover introductory topics such as variables, data types, data frames, and plotting. If time allows we will continue on to lists, for loops, conditionals, and writing basic functions. Introduction to R will cover data analysis and visualization using tidyverse methods. It includes an introduction to data structures, data frames, plotting and filtering.
If you have been looking for a chance to jump into Python or R, but aren’t able to join us for our weekly workshops, Reserve Your Spot Here to join us this Saturday in-person or online!
We hope to see you there!
Hello UO Students,
The Data Services Department at The University of Oregon Libraries has a job opening for one more student peer consultants for the 2023-4 academic year. Our mission is to provide a welcoming environment for learning and intellectual exchange for our fellow Duck researchers. The ideal candidate enjoys working with data and helping others learn more about data analysis, statistics, programming, data visualization, and other exciting issues dealing with data! The student peer consultant will help fellow ducks through statistical consultations on data questions and assist with workshops on subjects ranging from computer programming to research reference management.
Please follow the link below for the full job description on Handshake.
Will you be looking for a job or attending a conference soon? Eugene Women in Data Science is hosting a How to Network event this Friday 2/117 from 3-4 in the DREAM Lab! We’ll talk about networking etiquette and then you’ll develop and deliver your elevator pitch. All genders are welcome. With snacks!
WiDS Eugene is an independent event sponsored by the UO School of Computer and Data Sciences, the UO Honors College, and UO Libraries as part of the annual WiDS Worldwide conference, the WiDS Datathon, and an estimated 200 WiDS Regional Events worldwide. Everyone is invited to attend all WiDS conference and WiDS Datathon Workshop events which feature outstanding women doing outstanding work.