A fantastic group of tutors were assembled
Posted: Sat Feb 08, 2025 2:57 am
A key component of the course is group work, with teams coming together over the week to brainstorm ideas and undertake a 2 day final project. The course typically attracts a range of data and software skills, from newcomer to the experienced R user, and students often collect themselves into groups where more experienced researchers can lead on some of the more technical tasks.
Past courses have seen some groups creative middle east rcs data some inventive mini projects, sourcing new online data from APIs and creating some interesting visualisations to help answer a social science research problem.
Designing the 2020 course for a virtual environment
This year, as course organiser, Louise decided to increase the number of tutors on the course and decrease the maximum number of possible participants, anticipating factors such as the intensity of teaching complex materials on Zoom, and individuals and groups possible needing more one-to-one online support from skilled tutors.
Louise, Cristina Magder, Myles Offord, Julia Kasmire and Diarmuid McDonnell from the UK Data Service
Simon Parker from Cancer Research UK and ex-UK UK Data Service
The tutors met monthly to create the syllabus. Zoom was used for video conferencing and Slack was chosen to support flexible communication channels. Amazon Work Spaces was chosen for the data environment, due to the size of the data, and Essex Box was used to host course materials.
Past courses have seen some groups creative middle east rcs data some inventive mini projects, sourcing new online data from APIs and creating some interesting visualisations to help answer a social science research problem.
Designing the 2020 course for a virtual environment
This year, as course organiser, Louise decided to increase the number of tutors on the course and decrease the maximum number of possible participants, anticipating factors such as the intensity of teaching complex materials on Zoom, and individuals and groups possible needing more one-to-one online support from skilled tutors.
Louise, Cristina Magder, Myles Offord, Julia Kasmire and Diarmuid McDonnell from the UK Data Service
Simon Parker from Cancer Research UK and ex-UK UK Data Service
The tutors met monthly to create the syllabus. Zoom was used for video conferencing and Slack was chosen to support flexible communication channels. Amazon Work Spaces was chosen for the data environment, due to the size of the data, and Essex Box was used to host course materials.