UCS Training Programme Easter Term and Long Vacation 2009
(Mon 20 Apr 2009 - Thu 1 Oct 2009)
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May 2009
| Tue 12 |
SPSS is a powerful general purpose statistical package with high quality graphics and tabulation facilities, and a reputation for being relatively user-friendly. This course is for beginners and fairly new users of the package. Basic concepts and use of SPSS will be introduced. The main aim of the course is to give participants a foundation and some background. However statistical techniques are not covered (see note below). |
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| Wed 13 |
SPSS is a powerful general purpose statistical package with high quality graphics and tabulation facilities, and a reputation for being relatively user-friendly. This session follows on from Part 1 and covers useful techniques and tricks. It is strongly recommended for anyone likely to use SPSS for any but the very simplest analysis of the very simplest data. |
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An introduction to the bibliography package EndNote and its interface with Microsoft Word. EndNote is a program that stores bibliographic references, and notes about those references, in an EndNote Library. EndNote then interfaces with MS Word to help you create a bibliography and bibliographic citations while you type a document. The style (contents and layout) of the citations and bibliography can then be formatted in an Output Style of your choice; this can easily be changed without retyping. |
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Illustrator: The Basics
Finished
Illustrator is a professional graphical illustration package available on Mac and PC platform. |
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| Thu 14 |
Microsoft Excel is the chosen spreadsheet package as it is a popular choice, both on Macintosh and PC. |
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Macromedia Dreamweaver is a powerful web creation tool that allows non-technical people to produce professional websites. This course provides a practical introduction for those that wish to use Dreamweaver to create web-pages and manage websites. It focuses on building a small website. |
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This course is a task-focused version of the "Mastering Advanced Features" course. It is designed to give a overview of the advanced features of Microsoft Word 2003 that are most relevant to producing dissertations, theses and other long documents. |
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| Fri 15 |
MATLAB: Further Use (Part 1)
Finished
MATLAB is a software package for numerical computation with high quality graphics facilities. This course follows on from an earlier course entitled "MATLAB: Getting Started". This course has been revised this term due to unforseen circumstances. It includes some topics from the previously run MatLab Further Use Part 1 and Part 2 course. |
| Mon 18 |
This two-part course will build on the simple style sheets produced in the introductory courses. The aim is to give you a full appreciation of how stylesheets work and how to work with them, and using them as an integral part of producing web pages and sites. |
| Tue 19 |
This two-part course will build on the simple style sheets produced in the introductory courses. The aim is to give you a full appreciation of how stylesheets work and how to work with them, and using them as an integral part of producing web pages and sites. |
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Stata is a powerful general purpose statistical package. This course is for beginners and fairly new users of the package. Basic concepts and use of Stata will be introduced. The main aim of the course is to give participants a foundation and some background. However statistical techniques are not covered (see note below). |
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| Wed 20 |
MATLAB: Further Use (Part 2)
CANCELLED
This course follows on from "MATLAB: Further Use (Part 2)". It describes further facilities and useful techniques that are available in MATLAB, and also how to access Nag Toolbox from Matlab. Unfortunatley, this course has been cancelled for this Easter Term due to unforseen circumstances. However topics from this course have been incorporated into the MATLAB: Further Use (Part1) course: http://training.csx.cam.ac.uk/event/2146 |
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This session follows on from Part 1 and covers useful techniques and tricks. It is strongly recommended for anyone likely to use Stata for any but the very simplest analysis of the very simplest data. |
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| Thu 21 |
This is an introduction to the popular database package Microsoft Access 2007. The course is aimed at those who have never used the package before or have just started using it. There is an Access Fast Track course that is a shortened version of this course for those who learn at a faster pace. |
| Fri 22 |
This is an introduction to the popular database package Microsoft Access 2007. The course is aimed at those who have never used the package before or have just started using it. There is an Access Fast Track course that is a shortened version of this course for those who learn at a faster pace. |
| Tue 26 |
The rendering time for web pages is dominated by the graphics on the page. This course teaches methods of preparing graphics so minimise information loss and maximise transfer and rendering efficiency. There is an opportuinity to try the methods using PhotoShop. |
| Wed 27 |
This course is part of the Scientific Computing series. This course is aimed at those new to programming and provides an introduction to programming using Python, focussing on scientific programming. This course is probably unsuitable for those with significant programming experience. By the end of this course, attendees should be able to write simple Python programs and to understand more complex Python programs written by others. As this course is part of the Scientific Computing series, the examples chosen are of most relevance to scientific programming. |
| Fri 29 |
Excel 2007: Further Use
Finished
This hands-on course is a follow up from the Excel 2007 Introduction course. |
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This course is part of the Scientific Computing series. This course is aimed at those new to programming and provides an introduction to programming using Python, focussing on scientific programming. This course is probably unsuitable for those with significant programming experience. By the end of this course, attendees should be able to write simple Python programs and to understand more complex Python programs written by others. As this course is part of the Scientific Computing series, the examples chosen are of most relevance to scientific programming. |
June 2009
| Mon 1 |
This course is part of the Scientific Computing series. This course is aimed at those new to programming and provides an introduction to programming using Python, focussing on scientific programming. This course is probably unsuitable for those with significant programming experience. By the end of this course, attendees should be able to write simple Python programs and to understand more complex Python programs written by others. As this course is part of the Scientific Computing series, the examples chosen are of most relevance to scientific programming. |
| Tue 2 |
Mplus (Statistical Package): Basics
CANCELLED
Mplus (www.statmodel.com) is a syntax based commercial statistical software package for estimating models containing latent,or unobserved, variables. It has grown out of the tradition in statistical modelling known as SEM - Structural Equation Models, sometimes called LISREL models (this stands for linear structural relations modelling). However Mplus is much more comprehensive that this and can handle models for multivariate analysis with both continuous and categorical observed and latent variables e.g. probit and logistic regression models and their SEM equivalents. It also has capabilities for estimating latent classification and trajectory models, multilevel models, conducting Monte Carlo simulations, combining multiply imputed data sets, and handling complex data from survey samples. This course is intended to introduce new users to the basic code required to run half a dozen simple examples. |
| Wed 3 |
Access 2007: Further Use
Finished
This course is intended for those already using Microsoft Access 2007 to store and retrieve data who wish to explore queries, forms and reporting. Those who have attended the Access Intro course will find this follows on seamlessly from where that course ended. |
| Thu 4 |
Access 2007: Further Use
Finished
This course is intended for those already using Microsoft Access 2007 to store and retrieve data who wish to explore queries, forms and reporting. Those who have attended the Access Intro course will find this follows on seamlessly from where that course ended. |
| Fri 5 |
Python: Introduction for Programmers
Finished
This course is part of the Scientific Computing series. This full-day course introduces the Python programming language to programmers who are already familiar with another high level programing language such as C/C++, Fortran, Java, Perl or Visual Basic. The aim of this course is to give such programmers sufficient familiarity with Python that they can attend any of the more advanced Python courses organised by the Computing service and easily follow any of the widely available Python tutorials on the more complex aspects of the language. This course covers all the material contained in the "Programming: Python for Absolute Beginners" course, but in a more abbreviated fashion suitable for those who already have significant programming experience. This course does NOT cover the more complex aspects of the language (for such topics see the other Computing Service Python courses), nor is there much explicit discussion of the object oriented features of Python. |