Getting Started with Inferential Statistics
This workshop will introduce you to the framework of null hypothesis testing, a simple test of mean differences (t-test), p-values, what they really mean and how to adopt them in your research.
Getting Started with Descriptive Statistics
This workshop will focus on developing practical skills for summarising and exploring data using R or Python. The session will introduce key concepts in descriptive statistics, including measures of central tendency, measures of variability and data distributions.
Using Prompting Efficiently for Research
This workshop aims to introduce the main strategies of prompt engineering including tips and certain practices to achieve optimal outputs with Generative AI (Gen-AI) tools. After providing a hands-on overview of prompt engineering, certain features of ChatGPT will be discussed for fostering the research practices.
Collecting Data from the Web: Foundations of Webscraping
This workshop introduces the fundamentals of scraping user-generated content from the web using R or Python. The session will be hands-on, working through the process of scraping a selected static website step by step, before concluding with a discussion of the limitations of scraping and the challenges posed by more complex dynamic sites.
