The Winter School “R 4 Rcheologists” aims for a fruitful combination of archaeology and statistics through the teaching of Data analysis, Data mining, and Data visualization techniques. Attendees will learn the concepts and methods of univariate and multivariate analysis, spatial analysis and data visualization through an integrated use of R ecosystem software packages, statistical and practical principles. R is a programming language and free software environment for statistical computing and graphics. R is one of the main programming languages of Data Science, and includes a wide variety of statistical and graphical techniques, including linear and nonlinear modelling, statistical tests, spatial statistics, time-series analysis, classification, clustering, and others.

The Winter School will last 60 hours, and will take place from January 27th to February 7th 2020, at the Department of Civilisations and Forms of Knowledge of University of Pisa, Italy.

TARGET ATTENDEES
Students, graduates, PhD candidates, and post-docs in archaeology or related to Cultural Heritage. The course is open to EU (including University of Pisa students) and non-EU applicants. For an effective learning environment, the number of participants will be limited to 20.

– ECTS: 6
– Fees: 500 Euros (accommodation and food not included)
– Deadline for application: December 16-th, 2019
– One scholarship available (awarded on the basis of the CV, on request)
– Winter School website: www.mappaproject.org/r4rchaeologists/
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