Mark your calendars for the inaugural PRC Summer Institute -- Data 'R' Dirty: It's Time to Clean.
| Event: | PRC Summer Institute -- Data 'R' Dirty, It's Time to Clean |
| Date: | TBD |
| Location: | TBD |
About the Event:
Scheduled for TBD at the University of Maryland Health Sciences and Human Services Library, the PRC Summer Institute -- Data 'R' Dirty, It's Time to Clean is a three-day course that will provide training on best practices for investigating, analyzing, and visualizing data. Participants will have individual workstations from which instructor led demonstrations will walk students through the programming code and analytic thought processes needed in the early stages of evaluation and data analysis.
Who Should Attend:
The PRC Summer Institute is designed for any student or professional who works with data that requires "cleaning." The content is ideal for new researchers, programmers, and analysts in any field.
Course Content:
Course content for the PRC Summer Institute will include program code using SAS and R, addressing topics such as:
- Basic SAS Programming
- Basic SAS Reporting
- Basic Data Steps
- Combining Data
- Convert Data from Wide to Long
- Formats
- Using Formats
- SAS Functions
- Basic Macro
Complete course materials will be made available to each participant.
Course Objectives:
Participants who complete this course will be able to:
- Develop a purposeful approach to plan a data investigation
- Identify the steps necessary for the data cleaning and associated analysis
- Develop algorithms to systematically automate the data cleaning process
- Learn how to use a best practice analytic approach to visualize and analyze data outputs produced as a result of cleaning
For More Information:
More information about the PRC Summer Institute can be found on this website. If you have a question that is not addressed on this website, please contact prc@rx.umaryland.edu.