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Correct, there is no cost to participate! The DataGeek series is offered at no cost to participants for spring and summer of 2021 thanks to support from UW La Crosse alumni Scott Swenson and his spouse, Cynthia Baier. Swenson and Baier provided a generous gift to create the first College of Business faculty fellowship. The inaugural Swenson Baier Engaged Faculty Fellow, Dr. Mary Hamman, has designed the DataGeek series of workshops to take her innovative classroom instruction in data analysis out into the community. She began her career teaching HR professionals in Michigan State University’s highly regarded Human Resource and Labor Relations Masters Program and is eager to return to working with adult learners to enhance skills that will help them reach their career goals. Workshops also benefit from complementary academic access to DataCamp and Tableau for Teaching.

Participants will be provided access to UWL's online learning management system (LMS), Canvas. You will receive 20 hours of instructor-supported self-paced learning—for each workshop in which you participate. You can choose two different schedules to complete your learning: 

1. Spread over 4 weeks (approximately 5 hours/week)
2. One week intensive course (approximately 20 hours/week

Each workshop ends in a Live Project Day to test drive your new skills with other participants and prepare to apply what you have learning to a real business scenario. 

Live Project Days meet from 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Central Time on the dates below.

You will be provided access to the the software used in the workshops: 

• RStudio.Cloud
• Tableau for Teaching
• DataCamp

All skill levels are welcome—including novice. No prior experience with software or training in data analytics is expected. Content is customized to meet you where you are.