Analyzing Large Datasets with the Julia Language<https://odum.unc.edu/event/analyzing-large-datasets-with-the-julia-language-online/>

September 27 @ 9:00am - 12:30pm

This online course, offered by the Odum Institute for Research in Social Science<https://odum.unc.edu/> at UNC-Chapel Hill, 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.

Register here<https://apps2.research.unc.edu/events/index.cfm?event=events.go&key=B307>.


Instructor: Matthew Wigginton Bhagat-Conway

Matthew Wigginton Bhagat-Conway is an Assistant Professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning at UNC-Chapel Hill and a consultant in the Odum Institute for Research in Social Science. His research interests are in travel behavior, urban transportation, and statistical methods for transportation data analysis.

Dr. Bhagat-Conway has a PhD and MA in Geography from Arizona State University, and a BA in Geography from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Prior to graduate school, he was a software developer and project manager for Conveyal, a public transport planning consulting firm, and a fellow in the Data Science for Social Good fellowship at the University of Chicago.




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