Applied Workshop on Managing and Interpreting Data
Oct 7, 2025 to Oct 8, 2025 — All day
Master the art of interpreting statistics and learn how to use them to guide your strategic decisions, even if you鈥檙e not a math whiz!
Event details
The Applied Workshop series, hosted by the Career Corner, provides a variety of training sessions that allow you to gain knowledge from highly qualified and experienced instructors, while also providing you with practical experience through real-world applications on each topic.
These sessions are a great opportunity for you to quickly acquire in-depth technical skills, and are exclusive to you as a University of Ottawa student. These extra-curricular鈥痺orkshops are鈥痮ffered at a鈥reduced cost, making them an accessible way to invest in your future.
Exploring the power of data
Let the data do the talking: hone your data literacy skills in less than two days. Master the art of interpreting statistics and learn how to use them to guide your strategic decisions, even if you鈥檙e not a math whiz!
Places are limited, so register now!
October 7, 2025, from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m., and October 8, 2025, from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m.
- $150 for both days
About the workshop
Together, we鈥檒l learn how to produce and visualize basic statistics, and discuss best practices in data reporting. Using accessible and simple statistical software (e.g., StatsCloud), we鈥檒l also explore the fundamentals of descriptive statistical methods (frequency distributions, measures of central tendency, measures of association, etc.) and briefly introduce inferential statistics (hypothesis testing, sampling distributions, analysis of variance, etc.) in an applied context.
The content and teaching style are geared to people who are new to using data.
About the Instructor
Meredith Rocchi is an award-winning professor of quantitative methods whose research focuses on effective interpersonal communication, measurement validation and data literacy education. In class, she transmits her infectious love of data and statistics to her students. She is committed to cultivating excellence by breaking down the prejudices that surround methodology courses by making the teaching of quantitative methods more accessible and by helping to alleviate student anxiety about math and numbers.
In her role as assistant professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Ottawa, Meredith oversees a major multi-year SSHRC-funded project (The Data Literacy Project) that aims to improve quantitative methods courses in the humanities and social sciences.
