Overview

This Workshop is geared for people who know the basics of statistics, but have never written code before. We will set up R, Rstudio and Git, learn how to wrangle and clean data, how to make pretty plots, and how to do basic statists (descriptives, t-tests, ANOVAs, regressions etc.) in R.

Hannah about the course:
“If you have had doubts if you’d be able to write code, but secretly have been wanting to for a long time, this course is for you. In my experience, it seems more challenging and less fun initially than it later turns out to be! Coming from a social science background myself, I want to help others jump over the barrier of self-doubts and make it easy for you to start writing your own code.”

The Expert

Hannah Metzler is a postdoctoral researcher at the Medical University of Vienna and a project lead at the Computational Social Science lab at the Complexity Science Hub Vienna. She has a background in psychology and social & affective neuroscience. In her current research, she applies methods like text analysis and machine learning to capture digital traces of emotions, to investigate their validity, as well as their effects on misinformation spreading on social media.