The Infra4NextGen project is hosting a series of events aimed at training the next generation in utilizing existing social science research infrastructures. The focus of these events spans five key areas: Make it Green, Make it Digital, Make it Healthy, Make it Strong, and Make it Equal.
The European Values Study (EVS) is a key partner in this project, with its data serving as a central resource for these initiatives.
Two online training sessions will be held later this month ahead of a Hackathon – Transform your ideas into graphs! Visualization of research data – which is open to individuals or teams to create visualizations for a chance to win a share of €4,000.
The event will be held from 9am-3pm (CET) over three days from Tuesday 3 until Thursday 5 December 2024.
Entrants will showcase graphs using data from the European Social Survey (ESS), CROss-National Online Survey (CRONOS) Panel, European Values Study (EVS) or Generations and Gender Programme (GGP).
Hackathon entrants can use any software or tools to create visualizations.
Ahead of the Hackathon, two online training sessions have been organised.
On Tuesday 19 November, a webinar – Data Visualization with R and Jupyter – will be delivered by Franz Eder (University of Innsbruck) from 10-11.30am (CET).
In the first part of the webinar, participants will be taught about the basics of data visualizations and learn the criteria for creating informative science graphics.
This will include an understanding of the process of visualizing data, and the role of colours and fonts.
The second part of the webinar will introduce ggplot2 and its functions to create state-of-the-art graphics based on the principles from part one of the webinar.
ggplot2 is an open-source data visualization package for the statistical programming language R.
After completing the webinar, participants will be able to use ggplot2 to visually communicate their research results.
A workshop – Open Science and Reproducible Research in RStudio and Jupyter Notebook – will take place over two mornings on 28-29 November 2024.
Participants will learn the difference between replicability and computational reproducibility and be taught about the FAIR principles – ensuring data is Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable.
On the second day, attendees will learn the basic reproducible research workflow for the three main stages of research – data acquisition, processing and analysis – by using tools such as RStudio, Jupyter Notebooks, and the version control system GIT.
Jupyter is a project to develop open-source software and services for interactive computing across multiple programming languages.
Participants will learn how to organise a research project using RStudio and Jupyter Notebooks, how to use Quarto and Markdown for documenting the research steps, how to organise files and folders, and how to use the version control system GIT for collaboration.
Being familiar with these tools and workflows will help in the process of creating data visualizations.
To register for the Hackathon, webinar or workshop, please visit the project’s Events section.