Program Content - Class 1

Page contents

  1. Module dates,

  2. Course dataset documentation and reference materials,

  3. Module presentations and recordings (posted within ~1 week after each module ends), and

  4. Module agendas (posted ~1-2 weeks before modules begin)

Suggested project outline

  1. Research question

  2. Approach (including validation)

  3. Data

  4. Results

  5. Caveats

  6. Next steps/the future

Module dates

  • Module 1: Feb 8-10

  • Module 2: Feb 22-24

  • Module 3: Mar 22-24

  • Module 4: Apr 19-21

  • Presentations: Jun 8-9

Dataset documentation

datasets from agencies

An overview of core datasets can be seen on this pdf. 

The core datasets and field descriptions are listed below. Note: these are the description files received from the agencies providing data, the data and documentation in ADRF may not match exactly to these descriptions:

 

derived datasets

These are data that the ADRF team created as instruction materials

reference info

module 1 presentations

Feb 7 - welcome & introduction

feb 8 - intro to datasets & programming

feb 9 - webscraping & apis

module 2 presentations

Feb 22 - Databases

feb 23 - record linkage

Full day recording: link to WebEx video

feb 24 - programming with big data

Full day recording: link to WebEx video

interim material

mar 9 webex

  • The webinar recording: link

  • Julia's overview slides of wage record data: link

  • Clayton's SQL examples joining the wage tables: link

module 3 materials

Please note: all times below are Central time.

Wednesday 3/22/2017 Machine Learning

  • Introduction to Machine Learning: slides

  • Machine Learning recap: slides

Thursday 3/23/2017 Text Analysis + Spatial Analysis

Full day recording: link to WebEx video

friday 3/24/2017 Network + Project Work

Full day recording: link to WebEx video

module 4 Materials

wednesday 4/19/2017 Inference

Full day recording: link to WebEx video

Thursday 4/20/2017 Visualization

Full day recording: link to WebEx video

  • Ben Shneiderman (slides)

  • Intro to Information Visualization (slides)

Friday 4/21/2017 Privacy, Confidentiality, and Ethics

Full day recording: link to WebEx video

presentation information

presentation schedule

Please note: all times are US Eastern. Presentations should last ~20 minutes with ~10 minute Q&A sessions.

Friday, June 9 (recording)

Thursday, June 8

 

Presentation logistics

Please send us your presentation by 2pm on June 7th so we can add it to the website for download as a backup option in case there are any WebEx issues.

We do expect you all to watch the other project presentations and give the team feedback via this form (we will only share the anonymized feedback to the project teams). We believe this is an important part of the program as you will see how other groups have used the techniques from class and get feedback from a wide audience. If for some reason you cannot make the presentations in real time the WebEx recording will be posted to the website within ~1 day.

WebEx information

When you join please mute your connection. If using the audio conference number please be sure to enter your Attendee ID so it is more clear who is presenting or asking questions.