ng-data-club
Nottingham Psychology data club resources
Some materials for the lunchtime (?) data club, an informal weekly/fortnightly meeting at the University of Nottingham.
Aim
Bring people with varied backgrounds together to talk about, unpack, learn about quantitative methods for data
- organising
- analysing
- visualising
Github repo
You can find notes, presentations, and code at the ng-data-club github repository.
Discussion forum
You can also check out the github discussion forum for the data club. A good place to share ideas, links, etc.
Schedule
| date | Presenter | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Wed 23 Nov 2022 | DS/MvR | Overview, discussion, ideas [slides], [meeting notes] |
| Wed 07 Dec 2022 | Tomas Fiers | julia, version control [slides] |
| Wed 14 Dec 2022 | MvR | Linear regression [slides] |
| Wed 18 Jan 2023 | DS | Markdown, quarto, mixing text + computations [slides] |
| Wed 15 Jan 2023 | everyone | Interactive session: your 2 best tips for others, a question/problem from your work [notes] |
| Wed 8 Feb 2023 | Hazem | Interactions / stats / discussion [notes] |
| Wed 22 Feb 2023 | DS | Tidy data - thinking about organising tabular (and other) data [notes] |
| Wed 8 Mar 2023 | Josefina | Effect sizes, etc - journal club [notes] |
| data visualisation | ||
| Wed 29 Mar 2023 | DS | Launch of data visualisation block - ideas - Grammar of Graphics [notes] |
| Thur 25 May 2023 | Special Data Visualisation event Andy Kirk [notes] | |
| Wed 28 June 2023 | PCA, ICA, dimensionality reduction materials (zip) | |
| 2024 reboot | ||
| Tue 2024-11-05 | Leo Cohen | UP-ESLC-A09, Count distributions and analyses – Poisson and Negative Binomial [notes] |
| Tue 2024-11-19 | James Read-Tannock | UP-ESLC-A09, Non-Normal, No Problem: A Crash Course in Non-Parametric Statistics [notes] |
| Tue 2024-12-03 | x | UP-ESLC-A09, tbc |
| Tue 2024-12-17 | x | UP-ESLC-A09, tbc |
| TBC | Everyone | Discussion round - your most/least favourite plots. BYOP - bring your own plot |
| Tue 2025-01-07 | x | UP, tbc |
| Tue 2025-01-21 | x | UP, tbc |
Code of conduct
We have a code of conduct that applies to our meetings, emails, MS Teams, github discussion forum and other interactions. Please have a look at it.
Ideas for meetings / wishlist
We will try to keep meetings informal with some guided discussion by presenters that will change week by week.
Structure will be around:
- I want answer the following question with my data… How do I do that? and/or
- I know the following technique, which could help you with bla…
2022-11-23 - first meeting
- the slides from the first meeting
- meeting-notes
- some potential, additional ideas
Colophon
Organised by Mark v Rossum and Denis Schluppeck
artwork by DALL-E (https://labs.openai.com/) using the prompt: “a robot performing data analysis reading computer code with mathematic symbols standing in front of a whiteboard photorealistic”