GDA Workshops

The Objective of GDA Workshops

The workshops on Geometric Data Analysis aim to enable PhD students, engineers or researchers in Social Sciences and/or Life Sciences to learn about and develop their knowledge of the methods of data analysis so that they can select an analysis strategy that fits their research or professional activity.

These workshops are particularly designed for people who are currently working on data sets. The focus will be placed on a methodological and intuitive approach of statistical procedures more than on formal or mathematical learning. There will be practical sessions on real data sets using software. Along with the presentation of methods, there will be the presentation of recent research works that use them.

The presentations will be analogous to the ones of the monograph Multiple Correspondence Analysis by B. Le Roux and H. Rouanet, published by SAGE publications in 2010 (series: QASS Volume 163). This book will be used as the reference book.

Organisation of Workshops

The workshops will last three or four days. During the first two days, participants will be introduced to geometric data analysis: basic statistical notions for a cloud of points and research of principal axes of the cloud (PCA), introduction to Multiple Correspondence Analysis (MCA).

Every day there will be three types of presentations:

• A presentation of statistical methods
• A computer session using SPAD software
• A presentation about a recent case study using GDA methods

Working sessions can also be devoted to answering the questions raised by the participants and discussing the issues related to the data of the participants (possibly in parallel sessions).

Past and Forthcoming Workshops

GDA workshops have taken place in France (MAP5/Université Paris Descartes, CEVIPOF/Sciences Po Paris, CEREMADE/Université Paris Dauphine, CESSP/EHESS, Université de Picardie Jules Verne) as well as outside France:

If you would like to organise a workshop in your research centre, send an e-mail.