This workshop will consist of a beginner friendly introduction to the R programming language for data visualization. We will explore the pros & cons of using R and showcase examples & resources. Those with or without programming experience are encouraged to attend! Join us to learn more about visualizing data using the R programming language, so that you can visualize yourself as a future R user!
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Secondary Data Symposium 2023 (Online)
A symposium featuring faculty research supported by The Ohio State University Department of Biomedical Informatics, Center for Biostatistics, Secondary Data Core, curated for an audience of clinicians and researchers. Research professionals will present on their experience and overall expertise with using secondary data to answer important questions throughout multiple areas of study.
Spring 2023 Speaker Series: Dr. Nicholas Bowman (Zoom)
Title: University Rankings Systems and Their Effects on Admissions Indicators and Reputation
Nicholas A. Bowman is the Mary Louise Petersen Chair in Higher Education, professor in the Department of Educational Policy and Leadership Studies, senior research fellow in the Public Policy Center, and director of the Center for Research on Undergraduate Education at the University of Iowa. His scholarship uses a social psychological lens to explore key topics in higher education, including student success, diversity and equity, rankings, admissions, and quantitative methodology. Bowman’s work has appeared (or is currently in press) in 100 peer-reviewed journal articles, over 25 book chapters, and nearly 150 peer-reviewed conference presentations. This research has been published in outlets such as Review of Educational Research, Educational Researcher, Sociology of Education, Social Psychological and Personality Science, and Science Advances. Bowman received the Promising Scholar/Early Career Award from the Association for the Study of Higher Education in 2012, and he was the University of Iowa Scholar of the Year in 2018.
Learn more about Dr. Bowman by visiting his webpage, view his Curriculum Vitae, and the Iowa University Public Policy Center.
Registration for Dr. Bowman’s talk is now open! Please click the link here to register!
CDM & RCT Have a Baby: Methodological Bastard or Clinical Boon? (Virtual Event)
Irwin Epstein, Professor Emeritus at the City University of New York (CUNY) and at the Silberman School of Social Work (Hunter College), will present on the principles, methods, limitations and varied uses of CDM while showing were it “fits” in the broader context of the evidence-based practice and practice-informed research in social work and related fields. Epstein will illustrate how CDM has been employed in practitioner-initiated studies, DSW and PhD dissertations conducted in social work and allied-health settings. He’ll encourage participants to consider ways in which available data can be used in research and describe previous “flirtations” between CDM and RCT methods. Finally, Epstein will announce the birth of a new clinical research paradigm parented by CDM and RCT.
What does feminist data science look like? (Virtual Event)
As data are increasingly mobilized in the service of governments and corporations, their unequal conditions of production, their asymmetrical methods of application, and their unequal effects on both individuals and groups have become increasingly difficult for data scientists–and others who rely on data in their work–to ignore. But it is precisely this power that makes it worth asking: “Data science by whom? Data science for whom? Data science with whose interests in mind? These are some of the questions that emerge from what we call data feminism, a way of thinking about data science and its communication that is informed by the past several decades of intersectional feminist activism and critical thought.
Data Daze Monthly Forum: Visualization Deep Dive, Part 1 Workshop
With so many types of charts or graphs to choose from, how do you determine the most effective one to use to share your data? We will explore various families of charts – beyond the simple bar or line chart – that will allow you to compare categories, explore change over time, and examine distribution. We will also show you how to make these charts in Excel and Tableau.
Special Event: Dr. Moria Szilaygi
Join the Crane Center and Nationwide Children’s Hospital for a special event on childhood trauma and resilience featuring Dr. Moria Szilagyi, immediate past president of the American Academy of Pediatrics. She will discuss childhood trauma and resilience and the need to coordinate between systems of care through a trauma-informed lens.
Introduction to Causal Inference and Directed Acyclic Graphs (Virtual Event)
This presentation will discuss causal inference and directed acyclic graphs. Participants will learn the difference between description, prediction, and causal inference as three distinct scientific tasks requiring distinct scientific methods. Additionally, participants will understand the main features of causal directed acyclic graphs and how they can be used to plan and interpret causal analysis and appreciate some of the challenges and implications of using directed acyclic graphs in applied research.
QMC Spring 2023 By the Numbers Events: Childhood Poverty & Inflation By the Numbers (Zoom)
Friday, March 3, 2023, 12:00pm – 1:00pm: Dr. Kalee Burns, U.S. Census Bureau
Title: By the Numbers: Childhood Poverty & Inflation By the Numbers
Please join Dr. Kalee Burns, who is an Economist for the U.S. Census, for a discussion of recent findings published by the Census regarding childhood poverty.
Please read the following Census report authored by Dr. Burns before attending the event:
Census Report: Child Poverty Fell to Record Low 5.2% in 2021
Bio
Dr. Kalee Burns is an economist at the Poverty Statistics Branch within the Social, Economic, and Housing Statistics Division at the U.S. Census Bureau. Dr. Burns completed her Ph.D. in Economics at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University.
Dr. Burns has authored and co-authored research articles on the Supplemental Poverty Measure in the U.S., migration constraints and job opportunities, social capital and entrepreneurship, and gentrification and amenities.
Her research interests include Urban and Regional Economics and Labor Economics.
QMC Spring 2023 Speaker Series: Presentation by Stephen Gavazzi (Zoom)
Friday, March 10, 12:00pm – 1:00pm: Dr. Stephen Gavazzi, Director, Center for Human Resource Research (CHRR)
Title: Data and Samples Available Through CHRR at The Ohio State University: The National Longitudinal Studies, Ohio Longitudinal Data Archive, and the American Population Panel
Stephen M. Gavazzi, Ph.D. is Director of CHRR at The Ohio State University, as well as a professor in the College of Education and Human Ecology at Ohio State. Dr. Gavazzi is responsible for the overall operations of CHRR, which serves as Ohio State’s center for data and survey excellence. His areas of expertise include a variety of topics within human development and family science (he is a trained marriage and family therapist), with a special emphasis on matters concerning families with adolescents. Professor Gavazzi also has a strong interest in issues surrounding higher education, including leadership, campus-community relationships, and the mission of land-grant universities. His latest book (What’s Public About Public Higher Ed? published in 2021 by Johns Hopkins University Press) was based on survey data collected using CHRR’s American Population Panel.
About CHRR
CHRR at The Ohio State University supports two large longitudinal databases – the National Longitudinal Studies (NLS) and the Ohio Longitudinal Data Archive (OLDA) – as well as housing the American Population Panel (APP), a group of 45,000+ volunteer members who have agreed to participate in social science and health related studies for research purposes. CHRR Director Steve Gavazzi will present information on these databases and related research tools that are available to researchers and policymakers through Ohio State’s center for survey and data excellence.
Learn more about Dr. Gavazzi by visiting his OSU directory page, as well as his CHRR page.