This is a two-day hands-on training that covers best practices for data organisation in spreadsheets, reproducible data cleaning using the tool OpenRefine, and introduces data analysis and visualisation using the programming language R.
The target audience of this workshop is PhD candidates and researchers with little to no prior computational experience.
The tabular dataset used for practice during the course comes from the social sciences field (i.e., survey data in a tabular form)
The workshop is on 27 and 29 of October 2026 - in person - 09:00 - 17:00 hrs each day
Location: Van der Goot M2-10 - Erasmus University Rotterdam
Find more description and the workshop website.
Participants from VU can apply for Edubadges upon completing the full course.