https://courses.helsinki.fi/en/hymy-909/130710301
Open Data + Open Science + Data Science
Original motivation of this course: Our
era of data - larger than ever and complex like chaos - requires
several skills from statisticians and other data scientists.
- We must discover the patterns hidden behind numbers in matrices and arrays.
- We are not afraid of coding, recoding, programming, or modelling.
- We want to visualize, analyze, interpret, understand, and communicate.
Learning objectives
After completing this course, the student (that's you!) will be able to
- understand possibilities of open science, open data, and open research tools
- master
state-of-the-art, open and free software tools: RStudio and GitHub
- apply the principle of reproducible research and see its practical advantages
- visualize and analyze data sets with some fairly advanced statistical methods
- learn much more
of all this in the future (continuous learning)
Practicalities briefly
- Organizers: Centre for Social Data Science (CSDS) and Doctoral School in Humanities and Social Sciences (HYMY) at the University of Helsinki (UH); School of Medicine at the University of Eastern Finland (UEF)
- Course page (pre-course info): https://courses.helsinki.fi/en/hymy-909/130710301
- Platform: mooc.helsinki.fi (IMPORTANT: always use HAKA login if possible)
- Registration: WebOodi (UH: HYMY-909; UEF: 4416007), but you may attend without such formalities (postdocs, lecturers, professors, alumni, guests) : MOOC (O=Open)
- Campus: City Centre of UH and Kuopio Campus of UEF, but you may attend anywhere : MOOC (O=Online)
- Teaching: Period #2 of UH: starting 30 Oct 2019, ending 11 Dec 2019.
- Class (recommended - NOT a lecture, but an active workshop): Weekly on Wed 4pm to 6pm @ UH: Language Centre, Festive Hall; UEF: MediStudia MS303
- Tools: BYOD (bring your own device), e.g., a laptop (Windows / Mac / Linux)
- Prepare: to download and install R & RStudio & Git (all freely available)
- Schedule: assignments and peer-reviews of reports in a strict weekly schedule
- Teacher: Reijo Sund
- Teacher: Johanna Tuhkanen
- Teacher: Kimmo Vehkalahti