Data Workshop Calendar and Paths

Browse the calendar for special events, workshops, and seminars related to Data literacy and Data Analytics. Click on each event to view details, registration information, prerequisites (if applicable), and other details on all of these events.

Can’t find an event or workshop that meets your needs? Check out this list of resources that may help.

	July 2020
Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
			1	2	3	4
5	6	7	8	9	10	11
12	13	14	15 Introduction to Tableau for Data Visualization Introduction to Tableau for Data Visualization July 15, 2020 -- 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm Virtual Tableau is a data visualization program that offers both quick and flexible methods of visualizing your data in a variety of ways, including through interactive dashboards. Offering ways to explore your dataset as well as explain it, Tableau combines ease of use and powerful options for engaging your audience with interesting visualizations. In this workshop, participants will: Learn about the different types of Tableau that exist and how they can access the program (for free). For more information and to register click here. R-Ladies Columbus Monthly Meetup R-Ladies Columbus Monthly Meetup July 15, 2020 -- 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm Online This month’s event will be a crossover with the WAW meetup! We will be mostly following the R-Ladies format, which means you can easily follow along with the speaker (Katie) she works through some code exploring a digital analytics data set. The WAW crew will bring the expertise on all things digital attribution and analytics to add some color to this particular business problem. Click here for more details and to register. • •	16 Tableau User Group Meeting Tableau User Group Meeting July 16, 2020 -- 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm 150 Thompson Library Ohio State’s Tableau User Group (TUG) helps bring together passionate users to learn, share and solve common data challenges. https://it.osu.edu/search/tableau •	17	18
19	20	21	22	23	24	25
26	27 Getting Started in R: Session 1 Getting Started in R: Session 1 July 27, 2020 -- 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm Learn how to get started in R and Rstudio using a free Rstudio.cloud account. This workshop covers basic R functionality: objects, functions, vectors, and various data operations. This is a two-day workshop occurring on both July 27th and July 28th. Registration for this section is full. To be notified when this workshop is scheduled again click here. •	28 Getting Started in R: session 2 Getting Started in R: session 2 July 28, 2020 -- 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm •	29 Statistical Analysis in R Statistical Analysis in R July 29, 2020 -- 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm This workshop builds upon the Getting Started in R workshop and gives participants a foundation for performing statistical analysis using R. Participants should already have completed the Getting Started in R workshop or have a working knowledge of objects, functions, vectors, and data operations in R. This workshop section is full. To be notified when this workshop will be held again please click here. •	30 Data Visualiztion in R Data Visualiztion in R July 30, 2020 -- 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm This workshop builds upon the Getting Started in R workshop and gives participants a foundational understanding of what makes good visualizations and how to create them in R. Participants should already have completed the Getting Started in R workshop or have a working knowledge of using functions, vectors and data frames in R. This workshop section is full. To be notified when future sessions of this workshop will be held please click here. •	31

Below are suggested learning pathways designed to introduce you to data analytics or how to effectively use data. Pick and choose from several pathways to customize your own learning experience to suit your needs and interests using a combination of both on-campus workshops and resources available on-line from LinkedIn Learning or Lynda.com.

For more information on obtaining accounts on either LinkedIn Learning or Lynda.com, please see the criteria for access at the IT Academy’s eligibility page.

Suggested Workshop Paths

Using the Ohio Supercomputer Center for Research❯×

This workshop path may be useful for researchers and students that are starting to use the Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC) resources for their research. These events may be found in the calendar to the right, or on the OSC events page.

Intro to Supercomputing at OSC
Getting started at OSC
Big Data at OSC Workshop

Data Analytics for Beginners❯×

This workshop track uses material from lynda.com as an introduction to Data Analytics. It may be supplemented with material available in workshops on campus as noted.

Learning Data Visualization❯×

This workshop path goes in depth on using Data to create an effective narrative. It uses material from lynda.com as a baseline, and is supplemented with resources and workshops available from Research Commons.

Data Visualization: Storytelling (1h 37m)
Learning Data Visualization (3h 50m)
Data Visualization Tips & Tricks (2h 14m)
Research Commons Data Visualization tools series (pick one)

General Visualization

Intro to Tableau for Data Visualization
Intro to Excel for Data Visualization
Open and Affordable tools for analyzing and visualizing data

GIS (mapping)

Web mapping basics with ArcGIS online

Amazon Web Services Basics❯×

This is a training path using material from lynda.com, which is an excellent tool for online training and supplemental learning videos. This training path is outlined as part of the IT Academy AWS training at Ohio State.

Working with Big Data in AWS❯×

This workshop track may be of interest to those wanting to use Amazon Web Services for their Data Analytics projects. If the Big Data Technology Fundamentals is omitted it also makes a good introduction to AWS and cloud computing.

AWS Cloud Practitioner Examples
Introduction to Amazon EC2
Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) primer
Big Data Technology Fundamentals

Microsoft's Python for Beginners❯×

Microsoft Developer has a series of videos on YouTube called “Python for Beginners”. Each video is just a few minutes long and the series aims to help the viewer learn Python starting with very little programming background.

No results were found.

July 2020

Suggested Workshop Paths