Eugène Horber is Professor of Applied Computer Science in the Section des Sciences Sociales, University of Geneva. He holds a PhD degree in Political Science (University of Geneva). He teaches social science methodology, applied computer science, and statistics at the University of Geneva, as well as Exploratory Data Analysis at INSEE/ENSAI (Rennes) and INSEE/ENSAE (Paris). He is the director of the Swiss Summer School (Social Science Methodology); main teaching activities in the past include the Essex Summer School, the Carcassonne Summer School, the PRESTA Progamme (EU programme for South America) and Eurostat/TES His research interests and publications are in the area of statistical methodology (data exploration, visual data analysis), survey research and aggregate data analysis, as well as applied computer science (didactical software, hypertext) and computer assisted qualitatative analysis. He is the author of a software package for exploratory data analysis.
The main focus of this introductory workshop is both conceptual and practical. At the end of the workshop, participants will be familiar with the central concepts of statistics (seen from a Social Science point of view) and will have acquired skills with statistical tools and the statistical package SPSS.
The aim of this workshop is to provide a sound basis of knowledge and skills with statistics applied in the Social Sciences to participants who never had the chance to learn statistics or need a more practical introduction.
Workshop content:
Below you will find the main themes of this workshop:
During the lab sessions participants will learn to apply the tools presented during the course to a variety of typical Social Science problems using the Statistical Package SPSS.
As this is an introductory course, there are no specific prerequesites for this workshop.