Digital Skills Workshops for PhD Students (UNIGE & Geneva Graduate Institute)

DS33 - Introduction to Programming with Python
Ireneu Pla

This workshop with Ireneu Pla introduces basic programming concepts to graduate students, with practical applications for social science research in Python. You will learn how to design and implement your coding project systematically, and how to resolve (inevitable) errors independently. The workshop is for absolute beginners who would like to use Python in their research projects, but some contents are transferable to other languages such as R. The course will also include extra contents addressed to economics students and an introduction to artificial intelligence.

After following this course, participants

• Are familiar with the main programming concepts
• Understand the basics of Python and are able to write procedural scripts
• Understand how to process data and extract information with Python
• Know which types of problems can be solved with Python

This workshop will take place weekly on the following Wednesdays, 18:00-21:00:

Ireneu Pla is a data engineer specialised in artificial intelligence. He has a background in Computer Science, obtained at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), and an interest in data taken early in his studies. He has worked in Switzerland and Singapore on innovation projects with startups, big companies, sports institutions, and the public sector.

PhD students of the Graduate Institute will be informed of each workshop by email.  For any questions regarding registration to the workshop, please contact: emma.cranfield@graduateinstitute.ch 

Introduction to Programming with Python

This workshop with Ireneu Pla introduces basic programming concepts to graduate students, with practical applications for social science research in Python. You will learn how to design and implement your coding project systematically, and how to resolve (inevitable) errors independently. The workshop is for absolute beginners who would like to use Python in their research projects, but some contents are transferable to other languages such as R.

This workshop will take place online:

• Weekly on Tuesday, from 29 September until 17 November 2020, 18:00-21:00

Ireneu Pla is a data engineer specialised in artificial intelligence. He has a background in Computer Science, obtained at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), and an interest in data taken early in his studies. He has worked in Switzerland and Singapore on innovation projects with startups, big companies, sports institutions, and the public sector.

For any questions regarding registration to the workshop, please contact: emma.cranfield@graduateinstitute.ch

This workshop with Mirko Reul introduces basic programming concepts to graduate students, with practical applications for social science research in Python. You will learn how to design and implement your coding project systematically, and how to resolve (inevitable) errors independently. The workshop is for absolute beginners who would like to use Python in their research projects, but some contents are transferable to other languages such as R.

This two-day workshop will take place over the following dates:

• Saturday 28 September 2019, 08:15-17:00,
• Saturday 11 October 2019, 08:15-17:00

Mirko Reul is a PhD candidate in Political Science/International Relations at the Graduate Institute. His work on popular allegiance in social conflicts is supported by a SNSF Doc.CH grant. He holds a B.A. from Goethe University (Frankfurt am Main) and an M.A. from the Graduate Institute.