b). Event (upcoming):

EUROPEAN SOCIETY OF CRIMINOLOGY R-Workshop, GHENT, BELGIUM

Workshop title:

“Introduction to R for Criminologists”

Date:

18th Sept. 2019

Description:

This workshop is designed to provide basics of R for new users as well as to provide advanced level functionalities of R for people who are already familiar with R.

Registration:

Click here

Location:

Ghent University, Campus Aula, Faculty of Law and Criminology, Paddenhoek 3, 9000 Gent, Belgium

Provisional Agenda:

09.30-11.00

(i) What is R? What are the key differences to other software? (ii) Introduction to the interface: knowing your way around RStudio (iii) How to import and handle data using base R (iv) Data visualisation using base R

11.00-11.15 (Coffee break)

11.15-12.00

(i) Introducing the tidyverse as an extension to base R. (ii) Data importing, handling and visualisation using readr, dplyr and ggplot2.

12.00-13.00 (Lunch)

13.00-15.00

(i) How to import and handle spatial data using sf (ii) Visualising spatial data using ggplot2.

Organisers:

Matthew Ashby, Samuel Langton, Monsuru Adepeju, Christophe Vandeviver, Wouter Steenbeek