Junior Seminar Resources

Welcome to a resources page for Junior Seminar research. Here you will find a list of links for data, tools, tutorials and related resources that may be very helpful to your work.

• Software

  • RStudio
  • R Programming Language
  • Python Programming Language
  • Git for Mac
  • Git for Windows
  • Git for all platforms

• Online Tools

  • sentiment viz Tweet Sentiment Visualization
  • Online R programming
  • Snippets – Run any R code you line online
  • JDoodle

• Tutorials

  • Allegheny College Department of Computer Science tutorials
  • Coding Train’s Git and GitHub for Poets
  • Setting Up Git on Linux
  • Setting up Git
  • Getting Started with Python in VS Code
  • 11 Best VS Code extensions for Python (2022)
  • ssh keys
  • Luman’s ssh keys video tutorial

• Articles

  • Getting started with Markdown

• Providers of Data for projects

  • sentiment viz Tweet Sentiment Visualization
  • Finviz
  • COVID-19 Forecasts
  • An interactive visualization of the exponential spread of COVID-19
  • Project Tycho
  • Pelletier Library at Allegheny College (online services)
  • World Health Organization
  • The World Bank
  • Noncommunicable Disease Surveillance, Monitoring and Reporting (NCDS)
  • Demographic and Health Surveys
  • Harvest Choice
  • Food and Agricultural Organization
  • World Population Prospects
  • Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
  • US Food and Drug Administration Home Page
  • The US Census
  • Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
  • IBM’s collection of opensource data sets
  • Google’s opensource data sets
  • Data.world: data for business-based questions
  • Kaggle
  • ipums
  • Kaggle’s Star Trek Scripts (Could be a cool idea!)
  • Project Gutenberg: Free eBooks
  • [And many more that you may conveniently find using online searches. Please remember to cite your data in your work; giving the name, the source and its web address.