DLI2015

28 April 2015

Day 1 : Statistics & Data Literacy Bootcamp

Location

8:30-9:00

Meet and Greet (and Eat)
Check your e-mail prior to the sessions and grab some tea or coffee to start your day.

Learning Lab
(email)
Milham Room
(beverages)

Session 1.1
9:00-9:15

Welcome
Welcome to UNB and welcome to the Statistics and Data Literacy Bootcamp

Milham Room

Session 1.2
9:15-10:15

Data and Statistics: As easy as 1-2-3?
Carolyn DeLorey will guide us through a discussion about the difference between data and statistics and statistical literacy.

Milham Room

10:15-10:30

Bio-break

Milham Room

Session 1.3
10:30-11:00

Stretch your Knowledge of the Continuum of Access
Siobhan Hanratty will explore the concept of the continuum of access using a concrete example of a survey available at multiple levels.

Milham Room

Session 1.4
11:00-11:30pm

Exploring the Wonderful DLI Collection
Carolyn DeLorey and Suzanne van den Hoogen will review what is available in the DLI Collection. By the end of this session we’ll know what kind of questions we can answer with the collection.

Bonus question: are there are any files only available on the FTP?

Milham Room
hands on component?

Session 1.5
11:30-12:15

Open Up Your Mind to Open Data
Where else might we look for data? Suzanne van den Hoogen will take us through some sources of open data.

Learning Lab
hands on component?

12:15-1:30pm

Lunch

Milham Room

Session 1.6
1:30-3:00

Geography 101
What’s the big deal about geography? Paul Peters will guide us through the basics of geographic units used by Statistics Canada. This presentation will include a hands-on exercise with GeoSuite.

Learning Lab

3:00-3:15pm

Biobreak

Session 1.7
3:15-4:15

Why Can’t I Find the Answer? And Where do I Even Start?
Julie Marcoux introduces us to obstacles commonly faced when searching for data or statistics. With bonus workflow for statistics research.

Milham Room

4:15-4:30

Day 1 Wrap-up

Milham Room

29 April 2015

Day 2 : DLI TRAINING

Location

8:30-9:00

Pre-session Caffeination

Learning Lab
(email)
Milham Room
(beverages)

Session 2.1
9:00-9:30

 DLI Atlantic Report
How was your data year? What is your favourite new discovery this year? Have you
noticed any new trends this year which affect how you do your job?

Milham Room

Session 2.2
9:30-10:15

DLI Update
What’s new and exciting at DLI Central?

Milham Room

10:15-10:30

Bio-break

Milham Room

Session 2.3
10:30-11:15

Alphabet Soup: Which Resource for Accessing DLI Data?
Beyond 20/20 Web Server? Cansim Multidimensional? Census Analyzer? Chass? DLI FTP server? DLI restricted web site? Equinox? ICPSR? IVT Crepuq? Nesstar?
<odesi>? SDA? RDC? Peter Webster spells it out!

Milham Room

Session 2.4
11:15-12:15

Beyond 20/20 Web Server and Nesstar
Hands-on with the new Beyond 20/20 Web Server and possibly Nesstar.

Learning Lab

12:15-1:15

Lunch

LI-135

Session 2.5
1:15-3:15

Becoming Excel Experts
Julie Marcoux will wow us with her Exciting Excel Workshop. Learn some great tricks
that will make it easier to work with DLI data.

Learning Lab

3:15-3:30

Bio-break

Milham Room

Session 2.6
3:30-4:20

Beyond 20/20
Bummed out that the B2020 session at the National Training Day didn’t work out? Now’s your chance to live and learn. Siobhan Hanratty will ask you to open your hearts and minds to the joys of working with Beyond 20/20 desktop.

Learning Lab

4:20-4:30

Day 2 wrap-up

Learning Lab

5:30-‘til the cows come home

Supper at Isaac’s Way

649 Queen St

30 April 2015

Day 3 : DLI Workshop

Location

8:30-9:00

Pre-session Email & Caffeination

Learning Lab
(email)
Milham Room
(beverages)

Session 3.1
9:00-10:00

Data Literacy
Paul Peters will introduce us to the need-to-know concepts of data and statistical analysis.

Milham Room

Session 3.2
10:00-11:15

Hands On with SDA
Does SDA stand for Survey Documentation Analysis or Super-Duper Adventure? Julie Marcoux reveals some SDA secrets and guides you through some fun exercises!

Learning Lab

11:15-11:30

Bio-break

Milham Room

Session 3.3
11:30-12:30

Fun with Geospatial Data
Now that we understand geography and have gathered some excellent
socio-demographic data using Beyond 20/20, let’s see what we can do about mapping
it. Siobhan Hanratty concludes her thrilling trilogy taking us through a hands-on
exercise using GIS software. Don’t worry! She’ll be gentle.

Learning Lab

12:30-1:30pm

Lunch

Milham Room

Session 3.4
1:30-2:45

Basics of Extracting Data with SPSS - Fun with Historical Census
Ever been too scared to ask how you work with older census files? Julie Marcoux will
take us through a workshop using SPSS to get basic summary tabulation (BST) data
from the 1971 census.

Learning Lab

2:45-3:00

Wrap-up
Planning for next year Pictures, Evaluations, and Good-byes

Have a safe trip home!

Learning Lab