Category: Soft Skills WiSe 2021/22

[BEAM] Academic Writing (March 21-22, 2022)

“Writing is an essential part of the successful researcher’s skillset.  However, writing at the standard necessary to publish in peer-reviewed journals can be challenging. This two-day writing workshop was for researchers who wished to improve their academic writing skills in English.
This practical workshop focused on the structure of an English paper and abstract and how to improve the style and readability of an academic text. Participants were encouraged to bring along a sample of their current writing that were the basis for peer review on the second day of the course.  In addition, participants had to bring at least two examples of research articles from their field (written by native English speakers if possible).”

Trainer: Anne-Lesley Weiling

[BEAM] Statistical literacy and R (Januar 13-14, 2022)

Our partner graduate school BEAM offered an online complementary skills workshop on statistics and R. It covered the following topics:

Management of R objects, workspace, Help system, R packages, data types, Working with GUI RStudio, importing and exporting of data, Importing/exporting foreign formats such as SPSS datasets or .*cho, Summary statistics, dealing with missing data, Modify data set structures, Extracting partial data sets (split, submit, which), Working with tables: Row sums, column sums, Frequency tables, Graphical representation of frequency tables, Special table functions, Overview on graphic types, Layout and graphic design, graphics output, Algorithms in Data Science, Data import, processing, modelling and visualization, Overview about the classification of algorithms in Machine Learning.


The workshop was held online in English.