Time: 10 am-12pm, Feb 27 (Thursday)
Location: Scarfe Room 278
Open to Faculty of Education
Abstract:
This workshop is to provide an introduction to open data resources for secondary data analysis, particularly in health, information, media, and education fields. Three speakers will introduce how to extract data from open dataset such as Canadian Community Health Survey and PISA, and demonstrate how to access online unstructured data sources via web crawling, application programming interface (API).
Speakers:
Ben Hives, PhD Student in Kinesiology
Chiyu Zhang, PhD Student in Information Studies
Xuejun Ryan Ji, PhD Student in MERM
RVSP: x.ryan.ji@ubc.ca