Current graduate students

Thursday, February 12, 2026 11:00 am - 12:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Love Data Week: Love at First Stat - Rediscover the Fundamentals

Refresh your understanding of fundamental statistical concepts and strengthen your data analysis skills in this interactive workshop. Using R, we’ll revisit key topics such as descriptive statistics, probability distributions, hypothesis testing and basic inferential techniques. Through guided exercises, you’ll learn how to apply these concepts effectively to interpret and analyze data with confidence.

Tuesday, February 10, 2026 11:00 am - 12:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Love Data Week: Turning Numbers into Love Letters

Data are often stored in tables or databases, which provide information about size and variable types but reveal little about underlying patterns. This workshop introduces graphical and numerical techniques to uncover data structure and summarize distributions effectively.

Wednesday, February 11, 2026 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Love Data Week: Where in the World Is My Data Set? Web Scraping for Curious People

Ever feel like the internet is one giant treasure map and your next dataset is hiding just out of sight? Grab your digital compass—this workshop will show you how to uncover data gems tucked inside everyday websites, demystifying web scraping tools and tackling static pages together. You’ll learn how to spot promising data sources, peel back the layers of HTML using R, and transform online chaos into clean, structured information you can actually use.

Wednesday, February 4, 2026 10:00 am - 12:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Zotero is our friend, and it can be your friend too

Zotero is citation management software that takes (most of) the pain of writing papers with citations.In this hands-on session, we will provide an overview of the software and help participants develop a level of familiarity with it so that they can begin working on their academic projects more efficiently.