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This free on-demand webinar is given by Matt Denny, course instructor on Practical Data Management with R for Social Scientists.

In this webinar you will: 

✔         Learn how R is used in real-world social science context
✔         Hear the key advantages of using R to manage social science data
✔         Learn how to perform some basic tasks in R

This webinar begins with a 6 minute introduction by Matt Denny, which discusses how and why R is being used to collect, manipulate and manage data in social research. Matt will then give a 25 minute demonstration of how to perform simple tasks in R, including adding comments, variables and using R as a calculator. 

 
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Matthew Denny
Matthew Denny

Matt Denny is a PhD Candidate in Political Science and Social Data Analytics, and an NSF Big Data Social Science IGERT Fellow at Penn State University. Matt spends most of his time developing methods for analysing text and network data, which he applies to a wide range of projects related to: U.S. congressional and bureaucratic politics, organizational dynamics, international finance, and more recently, neuroscience. As part of his research, Matt works with a variety of large and complex datasets on a daily basis. Matt has also taught dozens of workshops on data management, high performance computing and “big data” analytics in R. To learn more about Matt Denny, check out his website: www.mjdenny.com