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ALCTS webinar: Introduction to R for Libraries, part 3
Date: Wednesday, May 30, 2018
All webinars are one hour in length and begin at 11 AM Pacific, noon Mountain, 1 PM Central, and 2 PM Eastern time.
This is part 3 of a 3-part series. See this webpage for more information about the webinars in this series.
Description:
Libraries now have access to an abundance of data reflecting multiple facets of our collections, users, and services. Examples include collections data pulled from the ILS, ebook and database usage data, university enrollment data, and local user demographic data. This data is often large, untidy, and difficult to work with in traditional spreadsheet software.
"R" is a free and open source programming language used for data manipulation, analysis, and visualization. It is more powerful and flexible than spreadsheet software and can run complex operations in a fraction of the time. This webinar will provide a soft introduction to working with data using R in the R Studio software environment. Participants will learn how to use R Studio, read in and explore datasets, understand error messages, execute some simple manipulations such as subsetting and renaming, and create a basic visualization.
The third session will go deeper into data exploration and manipulation, including subsetting data, creating and renaming variables, creating a basic visualization, installing packages, and a brief overview of more complex operations one can run in R.
Learning outcomes:
Throughout the series, participants will learn:
What R does and how to navigate the R environment. This will include the basics of R syntax, understanding the purposes of different panes in R Studio, and understanding error messages and getting help.
How to read in a dataset and conduct some basic explorations of it. They will run a very simple subsetting operation, and create a simple barplot. It will include a training dataset of ebook usage with some randomly generated usage statistics in order to help contextualize and reinforce the advantages of using R.
Who should attend?
Those who work with data as a central part of their job. This would likely include serials librarians, cataloging librarians, archivists, and collection development librarians.
Presenter:
Clarke Iakovakis is the Scholarly Communications Librarian at the University of Houston-Clear Lake. He has worked in both academic and public libraries since 2007 as a page, library assistant, and research & instruction librarian. He has presented at ACRL and ALA on topics pertaining to usability and incorporating data into assessment. He is currently achieving his master's degree in history, and he does not come from a computing or technical background.
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Registration fees for single webinar: ALCTS Member $43 ; Non-member $59 ; Group rate $129
Registration fees for webinar series: ALCTS Member $103 ; Non-member $142 ; Group rate $310
All webinars are recorded and the one-time fee includes unlimited access to the webinar recording. All registered attendees will receive the link to the recorded session so if you are unable to attend the webinar at the time it is presented, you will have the opportunity to listen to the recording at your convenience.
For questions about registration, contact ALA Registration by calling 1-800-545-2433 and press 5 or email registration@ala.org. For all other questions or comments related to the webinars, contact Megan Dougherty, ALCTS Program Officer, Continuing Education at 1-800-545-2433, ext. 5038 or mdougherty@ala.org.
Posted on behalf of the ALCTS Continuing Education Committee.
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