Structured Data, Databases, and SQL

Date: 

Friday, September 11, 2020, 1:00pm to 4:00pm

Location: 

Online: Zoom

Collecting, analyzing, and managing data is the bread-and-butter of any research project, and standard tools like Microsoft Excel are the go-to apps as they're omnipresent and easy to use. But these start to show their limitations when one needs to handle tens of thousands of rows or merge data from multiple sources. Using a relational database, such as SQLite, can meet this gap and is the logical next step for bigger data projects. 

This class will discuss the fundamentals of structured data, introduce you to using SQLite (a lightweight database available on all most computing platforms), and teach you the basics of querying and summarizing data with SQL. Meeting these objectives could open up new opportunities for research and help you with your research data management goals.

This workshop will be delivered by the HBS Research Computing Services group in partnership with the Data Science Services group at IQSS.

Visit the Harvard Training Portal for details and registration information (requires HarvardKey).