Los Angeles City College

Research Staff Professional Development

The Office of Institutional Effectiveness is committed to the professional development of all office staff. This page provides an outline of the basic professional development for the research and assistant research analysts of the office.

Statistical Methods

• Online Course in Statistical Learning, offered through Stanford University. The course closely follows the freely available An Introduction to Statistical Learning
• Principles of Machine Learning, offered through edX

Statistical Software / Programming

• DataCamp - Online courses to learn R, python, SQL, and data analysis. Subscription required.
• SQLBolt - Interactive tutorials to learn base SQL
• Introduction to R Programming, offered through edX
• Use the R package swirl  to learn R in R. Use "install.packages('swirl')" from within RStudio to install.

Data Visualization

• Data Visualization Checklist

Dashboards

• Power BI Dashboard in a Day –  Attend a free in-person training or download the materials and complete on your own.

Conferences / Workshops

• RP Group Conference
• RP Strengthening Student Success Conference 
• RP Summer Institute 
• Leading from the Middle (LFM) Academies 
• CAMP Regional Research Meetings
• California Association of Institutional Research (CAIR) Conference
• Association for Institutional Research (AIR) Conference

Additional Trainings

• For additional trainings on a variety of topic, visit CCCCO's Vision Resource Center