Digital Skills
As part of the project "Universities as learning communities", the University of Lucerne offers its students courses to strengthen their digital skills. The project is supported by swissuniversities on the occasion of the program "Strengthening Digital Skills in Teaching".
Take a look at the current courses. The courses are open to all Master, doctoral and postdoctoral students of the University of Lucerne, but are particularly recommended for students of the programme Lucerne Master in Computational Social Sciences (LUMACSS).
Big Data Analytics
Course dates:
17 March 2023, 9.15 a.m. to 5 p.m.
18 March 2023, 9.15 a.m. to 5 p.m.
24 March 2023, 9.15 a.m. to 5 p.m.
25 March 2023, 9.15 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Registration deadline: 1 March 2023
Credits: 4 ECTS
Mode: remote
Web scraping and text analysis in R
Course dates:
2 June 2023, 9.15 a.m. to 5.00 p.m.
9 June 2023, 9.15 a.m. to 5.00 p.m.
Registration deadline: 17 May 2023
Credits: 2 ECTS
Mode: remote
Fall Term 2022
Introduction to Shiny in R
Course dates:
14 October 2022, 9.30 a.m. to 4.30 p.m.
21 October 2022, 9.30 a.m. to 4.30 p.m.
Registration deadline: 30 September 2022
Credits: 2 ECTS
Mode: remote
Building packages in R and version control
Course dates:
4 November 2022, 9.30 a.m. to 4.30 p.m.
Registration deadline: 21 October 2022
Credits: 1 ECTS
Mode: remote
Information Visualizations in R
Course dates:
18 November 2022, 9.30 a.m. to 4.30 p.m.
25 November 2022, 9.30 a.m. to 4.30 p.m.
Registration deadline: 4 November 2022
Credits: 2 ECTS
Mode: remote
Introduction to web scraping and text analysis in R
Course dates:
2 December 2022, 9.30 a.m. to 4.30 p.m.
Registration deadline: 18 November 2022
Credits: 1 ECTS
Mode: remote
Spring Term 2022
Web-Scraping with R
Course dates:
4 March 2022, 9.15 a.m. to 4.45 p.m.
5 March 2022, 9.15 a.m. to 1.00 p.m.
Registration deadline: 18 February 2022
Credits: 1 ECTS
Mode: tbd
Working with Twitter Data in R
Course dates:
7 March 2022, 9.15 a.m. to 4.45 p.m.
8 March 2022, 9.15 a.m. to 4.45 p.m.
Registration deadline: 20 February 2022
Credits: 2 ECTS
Mode: tbd
Big Data Analytics
Course dates:
9 March 2022, 9.15 a.m. to 4.45 p.m.
10 March 2022, 9.15 a.m. to 4.45 p.m.
17 March 2022, 9.15 a.m. to 4.45 p.m.
18 March 2022, 9.15 a.m. to 4.45 p.m.
Registration deadline: 22 February 2022
Credits: 4 ECTS
Mode: tbd
Computational Game Theory
Course dates:
21 March 2022, 9.15 a.m. to 4.45 p.m., HS13 Frohburgstrasse 3
22 March 2022, 9.15 a.m. to 4.45 p.m., HS13 Frohburgstrasse 3
Further information
Registration deadline: 6 March 2022
Credits: 2 ECTS
Mode: on site
Populism in time of Computational Social Sciences
Course dates:
28 March 2022, 9.15 a.m. to 4.45 p.m., HS13 Frohburgstrasse 3
29 March 2022, 9.15 a.m. to 4.45 p.m., HS13 Frohburgstrasse 3
Registration deadline: 13 March 2022
Credits: 2 ECTS
Mode: on site
Creating web application in R using Shiny
Course dates:
1 April 2022, 9.15 a.m. to 4.45 p.m.
8 April 2022, 9.15 a.m. to 4.45 p.m.
Registration deadline: 18 March 2022
Credits: 2 ECTS
Mode: tbd
Researching and assessing digital trade policies
Course dates:
13 April 2022, 9.15 a.m. to 4.45 p.m., 2.A23 Frohburgstrasse 3
14 April 2022, 9.15 a.m. to 4.45 p.m., 214 Inseliquai 10
Registration deadline: 28 March 2022
Credits: 2 ECTS
Mode: on site
Creating Academic Personal Websites
Course dates:
28 April 2022, 1.00 p.m. to 5.00 p.m.
29 April 2022, 9.15 a.m. to 4.45 p.m.
Registration deadline: 13 April 2022
Credits: 1 ECTS
Mode: remote
Introduction to Machine Learning in R
Course dates:
6 May 2022, 9.15 a.m. to 4.45 p.m.
13 May 2022, 9.15 a.m. to 4.45 p.m.
Registration deadline: 22 April 2022
Credits: 2 ECTS
Mode: remote
Fall Term 2021
Spatial Data Analysis for Social Scientists
Course dates:
24 September 2021, 1.00 p.m. to 5.00 p.m.
25 September 2021, 1.00 p.m. to 5.00 p.m.
28 September 2021, 1.00 p.m. to 5.00 p.m.
29 September 2021, 1.00 p.m. to 5.00 p.m.
Registration deadline: 17 September 2021
Credits: 2 ECTS
Mode: remote
Quantitative Text Analysis for Beginners Using R and quanteda
Course dates:
1 October 2021, 9.15 a.m. to 4.45 p.m.
15 October 2021, 9.15 a.m. to 4.45 p.m.
29 October 2021, 9.15 a.m. to 4.45 p.m.
Registration deadline: 17 September 2021
Credits: 3 ECTS
Mode: remote
Introduction to Python
Course dates:
19 October 2021, 1.00 p.m. to 5.00 p.m.
20 October 2021, 1.00 p.m. to 5.00 p.m.
28 October 2021, 1.00 p.m. to 5.00 p.m.
5 November 2021, 1.00 p.m. to 5.00 p.m.
Registration deadline: 4 October 2021
Credits: 2 ECTS
Mode: remote
Introduction to Programming for App Development
Course dates:
10 November 2021, 12 p.m. to 4 p.m.
11 November 2021, 12 p.m. to 4 p.m.
18 November 2021, 12 p.m. to 4 p.m.
19 November 2021, 12 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Registration deadline: 26 October 2021
Credits: 2 ECTS
Mode: remote
Data Visualization for Social Sciences
Course dates:
13 May 2022, 9.15 a.m. to 4.45 p.m.
14 May 2022, 9.15 a.m. to 4.45 p.m.
Registration deadline: 5 May 2022
Credits: 2 ECTS
Mode: remote
App Development
Course dates:
11 May 2022, 12 p.m. to 4 p.m.
12 May 2022, 12 p.m. to 4 p.m.
19 May 2022, 12 p.m. to 4 p.m.
20 May 2022, 12 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Registration deadline: 26 April 2022
Credits: 2 ECTS
Mode: tbd
Spring Term 2021
Big Data Analytics
Luigi Curini
Course dates:
10 March 2021, 9.15 a.m. to 4.45 p.m.
11 March 2021, 9.15 a.m. to 4.45 p.m.
18 March 2021, 9.15 a.m. to 4.45 p.m.
19 March 2021, 9.15 a.m. to 4.45 p.m.
Registration deadline: 22 February 2021
Credits: 4 ECTS
Mode: remote
App Development
Stefano Balietti
Course dates:
5 May 2021, 12 p.m. to 3 p.m.
6 May 2021, 12 p.m. to 3 p.m.
7 May 2021, 12 p.m. to 3 p.m.
12 May 2021, 12 p.m. to 3 p.m.
14 May 2021, 12 p.m. to 3 p.m.
Registration deadline: 19 April 2021
Credits: 2 ECTS
Mode: remote
Spatial Data Analysis for Social Scientists
Jessica Di Salvatore
Course dates:
29 April 2021, 9.00 a.m. to 5.00 p.m.
6 May 2021, 9.00 a.m. to 5.00 p.m.
Registration deadline: 22 April 2021
Credits: 2 ECTS
Mode: remote
Social media data mining with Python
Jonathan Bright
Course dates:
11 May 2021, 9.00 a.m. to 12.30 p.m.
14 May 2021, 9.00 a.m. to 12.30 p.m.
20 May 2021, 9.00 a.m. to 12.30 p.m.
21 May 2021, 9.00 a.m. to 12.30 p.m.
Registration deadline: 28 April 2021
Credits: 2 ECTS
Mode: remote
Data Journalism
Lucas Leemann; Theresa Gessler
Course dates:
21 April 2021, 9.00 a.m. to 5.00 p.m.
22 April 2021, 9.00 a.m. to 5.00 p.m.
Registration deadline: 20 April 2021
Credits: 2 ECTS
Mode: remote
Spring Term 2020
Social Media Data Mining with Python
Jonathan Bright
Bias, Dignity, and Fairness in Big Data and Social Data
Stefano Balietti
Fall Term 2019
Multilevel Structural Equation Modeling
Bruno Castanho Silva
Contact
University of Lucerne
Nadia Bühler
Programme Coordinator Digital Skills
Frohburgstrasse 3, Room 3.A53, T +41 41 229 55 87
nadia.buehler@unilu.ch