ng-data-club
Nottingham Psychology data club resources
Some materials for the lunchtime (?) data club, an informal weekly 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][tidy-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) | |
| TBC | Everyone | Discussion round - your most/least favourite plots. BYOP - bring your own plot |
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”