Event Details
Event Title Analyzing Large Datasets with the Julia Language (Online)
Location Online via Zoom
Sponsor H.W. Odum Institute
Date/Time 02/03/2025 - 02/05/2025 9:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Event Price
Cutoff Date 02/01/2025 Must register before this date
For more information, contact the event administrator: Jill Stevens jill_stevens@unc.edu
Event Presenters
Name Title  
Matthew Wigginton Bhagat-Conway, PhD Assistant Professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning and a consultant in the Odum Institute for Research in Social Science
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This course will teach participants how to use the programming language Julia to load, clean, plot, and analyze social-science data. Julia is a newer programming language with a focus on high-performance scientific computing, and allows efficient manipulation of large datasets. The course will cover the basics of loading tabular data; cleaning, filtering, and joining that data; calculating descriptive statistics; and estimating statistical models.

This course will count for 4.0 CSS short course credits.