socialworld can develop courses for your institution

socialworld also offers course development to academic insitutions, from short courses lasting days, to complete undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. We'll look through your staff skillset and all of your departments, review the current interests among students and suggest a range of courses. We have background in natural sciences, social sciences and IT. We are currently working with Leeds Metropolitan University.

Previous courses include:

• BSc Forensic Computing - University of Sunderland [url]

socialworld offers high quality leading-edge training

socialworld offers training courses suitable for many professionals, including crime analysts, police intelligence analysts, analysts from partnerships, neighbourhood police analysts and other agencies . We have several 'template' courses for different markets, however you may be interested in a 'bespoke' course for your specific needs, so give us a call and we can design something for you.

We aim to use open source and 'freeware' software so that after our courses you are able to translate your learning immediately into action without additional licencing costs. Alternatively we can teach you using the software that your company already possesses.

Available training includes:

• Data manipulation
• Data preparation (wide range of techniques)
• Types of inference (using freely available R statistical language)
• An introduction to hypothesis testing
• An introduction to data mining (using freely available Weka toolkit, and embedding solution in standalone Java application)
• Using statistical software (using R statistical language)
• Social networks
• Introduction to social network analysis (using Pajek)
• Advanced social network analysis (statistical techniques)
• Advanced course on graph-based data mining (using SUBDUE and other freely available software)
• Geospatial analysis
• Making the most of your geographical informations system (MapInfo, ArcView, ArcGIS, or any other platform)
• Advanced spatial statistics (using freely available software like CrimeStat and GeoDa, and bespoke programming solutions using Java or other languages)