R4Rchaeolofists | Summer / Short course | Computer Science & IT | On Campus | 12 days | University of Pisa | Italy

In Humanities, the exponential increase in digital documentation requires us to  question its management, its use, its availability to the scientific community and its  sustainability. In archaeology, these issues are even more crucial because they relate  to non-reproducible primary data. In order to effectively retrieve, store, manage, prepare for analysis, and communicate the information and the scientific range of  such amount of data, modern archaeologists should be able to deal with concepts  and tools related to new technologies. Such digital competencies are not present in a  standard archaeology background, though they are fundamental in order to  effectively interact with ICT experts. The "R for archaeologists" winter school aims  for a fruitful combination of archaeology and statistics through the teaching of Data  analysis, Data mining, and Data visualization techniques. It is conducted through R,  programming language and free software environment for statistical computing and  graphics R. The large amount of data that are produced through archaeology work  show a wide degree of heterofeneity, complexity, and interconnection, making the  use of algorithmic methods unavoidable. R is one of the main programming languages  of Data Science, and includes a wide variety of statistical and graphical techniques,  including linear and nonlinear modelling, statistical tests, spatial statistics, time-series  analysis, classification, clustering, and others. The Winter School will last 60 hours,  and will take place from January 25th to February 5th 2021, at the Department of  Civilisations and Forms of Knowledge of University of Pisa, Italy.