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Census Training: Introductions and Updates on Census Data Products

June 29, 2020 | William Cook

The Census Bureau provides key data that is invaluable to economic and workforce development professionals. This event will feature real examples and live demos from key Census products – Data.Census.Gov, Census Business Builder, and Job-to-Job Explorer – and will provide updates on new features and content. It will also provide a preview of the upcoming […]

Basic Data Prep & Visualization with Tableau

June 29, 2020 | William Cook

Address: Westin Arlington Gateway 801 N Glebe Rd Arlington, VA 22203 Download: Agenda Learn how to clean, shape, aggregate, and merge frequently used workforce and economic development datasets, including industry and occupational projections, in Tableau Prep and then organize your visualizations in Tableau Desktop. Analyzing big data using charts, graphics, and images is becoming […]

Foundations of Economic Development Research

June 19, 2020 | William Cook

Address: Pittsburgh Regional Alliance 11 Stanwix St # 17 Pittsburgh, PA 15222 Download: Agenda Course Materials: Dropbox link This 2.5-day course provides novice community and economic development researchers with an introduction to key data sources, tools, and research methods used to support state and regional economic development strategies. Through engaging discussions and hands-on exercises, participants […]

Basic LMI Analyst Training

June 19, 2020 | William Cook

Address: Los Rios Community College District Facility 1410 Ethan Way Sacramento, CA 95825 Download: Agenda Course Materials: Dropbox link This 2-day course provides novice labor market information (LMI) analysts with an introduction to LMI and basic analytical methods that support state and regional workforce development strategies. Through engaging discussions and hands-on exercises, participants will gain […]

Applied Analyst Training

June 19, 2020 | William Cook

Address: Baton Rouge Area Chamber 564 Laurel St Baton Rouge, LA 70801 Download: Agenda Course Materials: Dropbox link Group Presentation Upload: Dropbox link This 2.5-day course teaches economic development researchers and labor market information (LMI) analysts advanced skills in collecting, analyzing, and presenting regional economic and labor market data to answer questions about key industries, workforce supply […]

R Programming for Beginners: Using Data Science for Economic and Workforce Development Researchers

May 22, 2020 | William Cook

This is a two week course, with live instruction M-W-F from 3:00-5:00 PM Eastern Time. Are you sick and tired of manually manipulating data in excel? Are you interested in learning one of the most popular FREE (i.e., open source) data science programming languages out there? C2ER’s Introduction to R workshop will provide a complete […]