Event details
Our series of applied workshops, offered through the Career Corner, features a variety of short courses that allow you to quickly acquire in-depth technical knowledge from highly qualified and experienced instructors. These workshops also give you the opportunity to apply what you’ve learned in current situations to solve real-life problems.
The workshops are offered at a reduced price exclusively for University of Ottawa students.
Exploring the power of data
Let the data do the talking: hone your data literacy skills in less than two days. Master the art of interpreting statistics and learn how to use them to guide your strategic decisions, even if you’re not a math whiz!
Places are limited, so register now!
October 16, 2024, from 9 a.m. to noon and from 1 to 4 p.m., and October 17, 2024, from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
- $125 for both days
- This event takes place during reading week
About the workshop
Together, we’ll learn how to produce and visualize basic statistics, and discuss best practices in data reporting. Using accessible and simple statistical software (e.g., StatsCloud), we’ll also explore the fundamentals of descriptive statistical methods (frequency distributions, measures of central tendency, measures of association, etc.) and briefly introduce inferential statistics (hypothesis testing, sampling distributions, analysis of variance, etc.) in an applied context.
The content and teaching style are geared to people who are new to using data.
About the Instructor
Meredith Rocchi is an award-winning professor of quantitative methods whose research focuses on effective interpersonal communication, measurement validation and data literacy education. In class, she transmits her infectious love of data and statistics to her students. She is committed to cultivating excellence by breaking down the prejudices that surround methodology courses by making the teaching of quantitative methods more accessible and by helping to alleviate student anxiety about math and numbers.
In her role as assistant professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Ottawa, Meredith oversees a major multi-year SSHRC-funded project (The Data Literacy Project) that aims to improve quantitative methods courses in the humanities and social sciences.