[Air-L] Big Data Analysis for Social Scientists training course - Melbourne, 29 Jan-2 Feb 2018

[Robert Ackland]

Dear List,

I am running a 5-day ACSPRI training course on Big Data Analysis for 
Social Scientists - University of Melbourne, Monday, January 29, 2018 - 
Friday, February 2, 2018.

*Early bird enrolment finishes midnight Wednesday 29th (Australian 
Eastern Standard Time)**.
*
The course focuses on the collection and analysis of socially-generated 
'big data' from social media such as Twitter, Facebook and YouTube and 
also the WWW (hyperlink networks).

There is an emphasis on the R statistical software, with particular 
focus on the SocialMediaLab R package 
(https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/SocialMediaLab/index.html) for 
network/text data collection and igraph for network analysis. Text 
analysis using R packages such as tm is also covered.

Course material from the last ACSPRI course I ran is here: 
http://vosonlab.net/big-data-analysis-ACSPRI-Summer2017.

The course is updated each year, so expect the 2018 course to be bigger 
and better!

For booking, see here:
https://www.acspri.org.au/summer-program-2018
https://www.acspri.org.au/summer-program-2018/big-data-analysis-social-scientists

Please remember that early bird enrolment finishes tomorrow!

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Dr Robert Ackland
Associate Professor, School of Sociology and ANU Centre for Social 
Research and Methods
Leader, Virtual Observatory for the Study of Online Networks (VOSON) Lab 
<http://vosonlab.net>
Australian National University