CCDHHN

Data Visualization in R using ggplot2
2023-09-14 00:00 - 23:59 (America/Halifax) | McMaster University, 1280 Main St W, Hamilton, Ontario, L8S 4L8, Canada
This virtual workshop will provide an introduction to ggplot2, an open-source data visualization package for the statistical programming language R. This workshop will go overbasic tips for creating visualizations and customizing the design of those graphs. A basic familiarity with R will be helpful for this workshop.

Building JavaScript Websites 1: Styling Modern Web Apps
2023-09-20 00:00 - 23:59 (America/Halifax) | McMaster University, 1280 Main St W, Hamilton, Ontario, L8S 4L8, Canada
Are you building your own web site using JavaScript and frameworks? In this first workshop of the Building JavaScript Websites series, learn to apply consistent design standards to a JavaScript web site. Starting from a simple prepared single-page application, we will walk you through how to apply consistent theme styling, using McMaster Branding guidelines as an example. Each workshop in this series can be taken independently of the other workshops in the series.

Crash Course: Digital Tools to Ace Grad School
2023-09-20 00:00 - 23:59 (America/Halifax) | McMaster University, 1280 Main St W, Hamilton, Ontario, L8S 4L8, Canada
Start your research off on the right track using digital tools. In this session Jeff Demaine (Bibliometrics Librarian) and Isaac Pratt (Research Data Management Specialist) will introduce you to research impact and research data management tools you can use to organize your research and create a researcher profile. Your profile as a researcher should be a story that you create. Learn how to distinguish yourself from other researchers using a free ORCiD account that will automatically showcase all your academic activities. Learn how to organize and document your data to save time and make your life easier. Follow a few simple tips to keep your data safe and securely store your research data so your thesis isn’t taken down by a hard drive failure.

How Ideas Travel: Introduction to Research Impact
2023-09-26 00:00 - 23:59 (America/Halifax) | McMaster University, 1280 Main St W, Hamilton, Ontario, L8S 4L8, Canada
This virtual session introduces attendees to the world of Research Impact. Research impact counts the number of times a publication has been cited by other researchers or mentioned in media. Understanding the field can help you identify “hot topics” of emerging research, gain a more thorough grasp of your research community, benchmark your career progress, communicate your knowledge more effectively, and more. Learn to leverage key databases to identify the expertise of researchers, institutions, and journals at this introductory workshop!

Best Practices for Managing Data in your Research
2023-09-27 00:00 - 23:59 (America/Halifax) | McMaster University, 1280 Main St W, Hamilton, Ontario, L8S 4L8, Canada
In this introductory workshop, learn about research data management best practices and how investing a small amount of time in organizing your data now can save you a lot of time and prevent future headaches. We will go over best practices for data planning, storage, organization, preservation, and sharing.

RDM Community of Practice - Data Management Plan (DMP) Roundtable
2023-09-28 00:00 - 23:59 (America/Halifax) | McMaster University, 1280 Main St W, Hamilton, Ontario, L8S 4L8, Canada
McMaster’s Research Data Management (RDM) Community of Practice is back! We meet the last Thursday of every month to learn together as researchers and research support staff across all levels of RDM expertise. Data Management Plans (DMPs) are growing as a requirement for grants, from the Tri-Agencies, to NIH, and others. They can also be a helpful document to guide best practices—either as a process document for your research group or as an individual researcher. Join our RDM Community of Practice to discuss DMP development!

Protect Your Research Data: Introduction to Information Security for Researchers
2023-10-04 00:00 - 23:59 (America/Halifax) | McMaster University, 1280 Main St W, Hamilton, Ontario, L8S 4L8, Canada
Universities are not immune from data breaches and cyber attacks. Learn to protect your research data at this webinar with McMaster experts in IT Security and Cybersecurity. After introducing Information Security (a field dedicated to protecting sensitive digital information and data from unauthorized access, alteration, and/or destruction), the session will examine InfoSec problems specific to researchers. This webinar will also include a case study: If we take a hypothetical research workplace (such as a lab or office), what are its potential Information Security weak spots and how might we fix them?

The Library and DH
2023-10-17 00:00 - 23:59 (America/Halifax) | University of Ottawa, 50 University Private, Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 6N5, Canada
The Library is the heart of DH at the University of Ottawa. Our colleagues in the Library have supported DH research and teaching since the very beginning. Come to the second session to meet the librarians that support and engage in DH research and teaching. They will highlight services, tools, and resources available through the Library and the Archives and Special Collections, showcasing projects on which our university Librarians and Archivists have collaborated. Location: Univeristy of Ottawa CreatorSpace (Pérez Hall, room 302).

Introduction to R Programming
2023-10-18 00:00 - 23:59 (America/Halifax) | McMaster University, 1280 Main St W, Hamilton, Ontario, L8S 4L8, Canada
This beginner-level workshop will focus on basic concepts of R programming using RStudio. Various Data Types and Data Structures will be discussed, as well as basic data analysis in R. No prior knowledge of R programming is required.

Data Management Plans + Introduction to DMP Assistant
2023-10-25 00:00 - 23:59 (America/Halifax) | McMaster University, 1280 Main St W, Hamilton, Ontario, L8S 4L8, Canada
Planning ahead for research helps you prepare for data questions and problems before they happen. Submitting a Data Management Plan (DMP) is increasingly a requirement for funding applications with Tri-Agencies and the NIH. But DMPs can also be very helpful « living documents »: research tools that identify strengths and gaps which are updated through your research process. In this session, we’ll start with best practices of data management planning and go through a demo of DMP Assistant, a web-based tool for developing and collaborating on Data Management Plans in the Canadian research context. We’ll end with a sandbox session.

Building JavaScript Websites 2: Designing for Mobile UI
2023-10-26 00:00 - 23:59 (America/Halifax) | McMaster University, 1280 Main St W, Hamilton, Ontario, L8S 4L8, Canada
Are you building your own web site using JavaScript and frameworks? In this second workshop of the Building JavaScript Websites series, learn to design your web site to work for desktop and mobile sized screens. Starting from a simple prepared single-page application, we will walk you through how to scale your web site to work with the small screens on mobile devices without any loss of functionality. Each workshop in this series can be taken independently of the other workshops in the series.

‘Ghosts in the Machine: Large Language Models Are Mostly Full of Crap But Still Surprisingly Useful If You Dare’
2023-10-31 00:00 - 23:59 (America/Halifax) | University of Ottawa, 50 University Private, Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 6N5, Canada
Alternative title: ‘There is No Artificial Intelligence, Only Zuul; or, now that this thing is here, what can/should we do with it?’ We are so pleased to host again our colleague from Carleton University: Dr. Shawn Graham! Dr. Graham been playing with models of language since the days of Markov chains and Recurrent Neural Networks. In this talk, he’ll explain poorly how they work, why they work, and why you might want to just think of them as ‘calculators for words’. Alternatively, we can think of them as ghostly echoes of our web culture back to itself. In which case, he’ll walk us through some of the ways he’s found listening to these echoes to be useful in his research, in his teaching, but will also share some of the dead ends too. This isn’t a boosterism talk but rather an attempt to dispel hype. He didn’t write this abstract with the help of an LLM. Location: Univeristy of Ottawa CreatorSpace (Pérez Hall, room 302).

Coding for the Humanities
2023-11-07 00:00 - 23:59 (America/Halifax) | Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Ontario, K1S 5B6, Canada
This series of workshops introduces humanities scholars to coding in the humanities. The suite of workshops covers the following topics:

Creating a static page for cuPortfolio (learning to use the command line and GitHub)

Python I: Basic coding for text analysis

Python II: CSV files for literature reviews

Python III: Error searching, web scraping, and the ethics of open data

Each of these workshops introduces a core topic for those interested in computational methods for the humanities and provides opportunities to apply the ideas and techniques discussed. Attending all sessions is essential as the workshops are scaffolded to ensure that participants can progress from simpler strategies to more sophisticated approaches. For example:

work with a command line to create a static web page; and

export a CSV from the Library search engine Omni for a literature review.

Participants must attend an initial “office hours” session to ensure that their device meets the technical requirements of the workshops—no time will be available during the workshops for major technical set-up.

All students and faculty are welcome.

Learning outcomes

Setup Windows or Mac system to meet workshop technical requirements.

Write some basic commands to access files from their desktop/laptop directory.

Identify the benefits of using Python for certain humanistic research problems.

Import a CSV from Omni (Library discovery tool) into Python and then use pandas and NLTK to analyze the data in the CSV file.

Define a legal and ethical process for accessing digital data.

The workshops will run on the following dates and times. These sessions are in person only, with the exception of the technical set up session.

Room ML252A

Tuesday, November 7 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. (Required technical set-up)

Tuesday, November 14 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Tuesday, November 21 1:00 p.m. tp 4:00 p.m.

Tuesday, November 28 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Tuesday, December 5 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.

Tuesday, December 12 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Thursday, December 14 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Workshop leader(s):

Martha Attridge Bufton, Interdisciplinary Studies Librarian

Chantal Brousseau, MA candidate (History)

Alparsian Ozturk, Business and Government Document Technician

Jennifer Whitney, Digital Initiatives Librarian

Please note: sessions taking place in December do not count toward paid pedagogical training hours.

Competencies:

Research & Analysis; Digital Literacy; Discipline-specific knowledge

Data Organization in Spreadsheets for Humanities, Social Sciences, & Librarians
2023-11-08 00:00 - 23:59 (America/Halifax) | British Columbia
This introductory workshop offers best practices for data organization in spreadsheets for humanities, social sciences, & librarians.

Introducing the "Canadian BIPOC Artists Rolodex"
2023-11-14 00:00 - 23:59 (America/Halifax) | University of Ottawa, 50 University Private, Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 6N5, Canada
Started by professors Jinny Yu and Celina Jeffery (from uOttawa) and Ming Tiampo (from Carleton U), the project is a searchable database of Canadian BIPOC artists aimed to facilitate and encourage research, teaching, and exhibitions on BIPOC artists, who as you might know, continue to be underrepresented in publications, exhibitions, and curricula. Research assistants Tia Carey and Candide Mawoko will introduce the database, which has been named the Canadian BIPOC Artists Rolodex, references the ways in which BIPOC artists have been historically known through personal and artistic networks rather than through institutions. It seeks to increase accessibility to BIPOC artists during first-phase research and subsequently increase their representation in curriculum, publications, and art institutions. It is conceived of in equal measures as a curated platform, digital humanities project, and advocacy work. Location: Univeristy of Ottawa CreatorSpace (Pérez Hall, room 302).

Introduction to Statistical Analysis with SPSS
2023-11-15 00:00 - 23:59 (America/Halifax) | McMaster University, 1280 Main St W, Hamilton, Ontario, L8S 4L8, Canada
This beginner-level workshop will introduce you to the basics of SPSS statistical software, how it works, and some basic descriptive statistics, statistical procedures and chart building features. No prior knowledge of SPSS is required.

Database Management using SQL for Humanities, Social Sciences, & Librarians
2023-11-15 00:00 - 2023-11-22 23:59 (America/Halifax) | British Columbia
This is a hands-on introductory workshop on database management using SQL for Humanities, Social Sciences, & Librarians. This workshop will be offered in collaboration with an instructor from Calcul Québec. It is a two-part six-hour session with the introductory materials covered on November 15, and the more advanced SQL content covered on November 22. Attendees register for both parts.

Enhancing Your Digital Exhibit: Customization and Interactive Elements in Omeka S
2023-11-16 00:00 - 23:59 (America/Halifax) | McMaster University, 1280 Main St W, Hamilton, Ontario, L8S 4L8, Canada
Create next level digital exhibits! We will use HTML5 to customize the appearance of your Omeka S digital exhibit and add interactive elements to your website.

Creating User-Centered Websites for Humanities Research Projects
2023-11-17 00:00 - 23:59 (America/Halifax) | University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
This workshop is designed to introduce humanities researchers to key UXD (User Experience Design) concepts and guide you through a goal setting activity which will help you come up with a plan and a website structure for your project.

Led by Parita Patel. For more info visit: https://ux-design-praxis.eventbrite.ca/

Intro to Making and Sharing Maps with ArcGIS Pro
2023-11-22 00:00 - 23:59 (America/Halifax) | McMaster University, 1280 Main St W, Hamilton, Ontario, L8S 4L8, Canada
ArcGIS Pro is a professional desktop Geographic Information Systems (GIS) program. It is a powerful data visualization tool that maps and analyzes data, depicting patterns and trends. This workshop is geared towards beginners new to ArcGIS or ArcMap users making the switch to ArcGIS Pro. Attendees will become familiar with ArcGIS tools that are available on campus, learn the ArcGIS Pro interface, symbolize data, and share the resulting map.

Building JavaScript Websites 3: Easy Steps to AODA Compliance
2023-11-23 00:00 - 23:59 (America/Halifax) | McMaster University, 1280 Main St W, Hamilton, Ontario, L8S 4L8, Canada
December 3 is International Day for Persons with Disabilities! Are you building your own web site using JavaScript and frameworks? In this third workshop of the Building JavaScript Websites series, learn to adapt UI controls in a JavaScript web site to be accessible. Starting from a simple prepared single-page application, we will walk you through how easy it is to make a JavaScript web site to be AODA compliant. Each workshop in this series can be taken independently of the other workshops in the series.

Digital Storytelling Workshop
2023-11-24 08:00 - 2023-11-26 17:00 (America/Toronto) | University of Toronto Mississauga, Mississauga, Ontario, L5L 1C6, Canada
An online hands-on and open studio environment to develop the narrative and technical skills to create a 2–5-minute digital research story.

Wiki-A-Thons as Community Builders
2023-11-28 00:00 - 23:59 (America/Halifax) | University of Ottawa, 50 University Private, Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 6N5, Canada
The Lesbian and Gay Liberation in Canada (LGLC) project set up a Wikipedia edit-a-thon to increase the visibility and representativeness of the French-speaking Canadian LGBTQ2IA+ movement on this platform. The LGLC project recognized the need to fill the gap in content on the LGBTQ2IA+ movement in French-speaking Canada compared to English-speaking Canada and wanted to call on the community to rectify the situation via this event, which took place in the fall of 2023. In our final session of the Fall semester, Humanities Data Lab research assistants Pascale Dangoisse and Farinaz Basmechi will present on the results of this activity, and the avenues for the future. Location: Univeristy of Ottawa CreatorSpace (Pérez Hall, room 302).

Text Analysis in 3D
2023-11-28 00:00 - 23:59 (America/Halifax) | British Columbia
3D visualization is surprisingly little used to visualize data and connections in the digital humanities, despite the fact that the 3rd dimension can provide many benefits, from decluttering plots to encoding one of the variables.

In this webinar I will present a workflow to analyze a text corpus consisting of works from multiple authors and visualize the differences between their vocabularies in 3D. I will complement it with 3D graphs to link similar texts. Throughout the webinar, I will only use open-source tools — Python and several 3rd-party Python libraries, ParaView, and VTK — and will show 3D visualizations that can easily scale to millions of texts and can work for any input language.

Led by Alex Razoumov (Simon Fraser University).

Offered by WestDRI, Simon Fraser University, and the Digital Research Alliance of Canada.

Depositing & Sharing Data Online with McMaster Dataverse
2023-11-29 00:00 - 23:59 (America/Halifax) | McMaster University, 1280 Main St W, Hamilton, Ontario, L8S 4L8, Canada
Are you thinking of sharing your data for re-use by other researchers? Have you been asked to share your data by a journal or funder? Are you worried about the long term accessibility of your data? Join Danica Evering (Research Data Management Specialist) for this workshop on how to deposit your data on McMaster Dataverse for archival, preservation, and sharing. Learn more about how openly sharing data can benefit you and the research community, and how online repositories are helping to improve the availability of research data. We’ll end with a sandbox session where participants can experiment with the Demo instance of Dataverse.

Creating Animated Plots in R: Using gganimate
2024-01-11 00:00 - 23:59 (America/Halifax) | McMaster University, 1280 Main St W, Hamilton, Ontario, L8S 4L8, Canada
This virtual workshop will build on the Fall 2023 workshop “Data Visualization in R using ggplot2” to provide an introduction to gganimate in the statistical programming language R. This workshop will go examples on how to create visualizations that change over time and how to and customize the design of those graphs.

Map-Making for Absolute Beginners using QGIS
2024-01-16 00:00 - 23:59 (America/Halifax) | McMaster University, 1280 Main St W, Hamilton, Ontario, L8S 4L8, Canada
Designed for those who are curious about making maps but haven’t yet had the opportunity to learn. This workshop will provide a friendly introduction to geographic data and the mapping of this data using the geographic information system (GIS) software, QGIS. Absolutely no geography or quantitative background is necessary for an engaging experience.

Gephi Part 2: Conducting Network Analysis
2024-01-18 00:00 - 23:59 (America/Halifax) | McMaster University, 1280 Main St W, Hamilton, Ontario, L8S 4L8, Canada
This workshop will build on the Fall 2023 workshop “Gephi Part 1: Introduction to Network Visualizations” to look at how one can conduct network analysis for research. We will go through a case example together and discuss more features that researchers can use to design their own network visualizations.

The Humanities and Scholarship in a Digital World
2024-01-19 00:00 - 23:59 (America/Halifax) | Toronto Metropolitan University, 350 Victoria Street, Toronto, Ontario, M5B 2K3, Canada
Two parts: January 19 (10 am – Noon) and February 2 (10 am – Noon)

This two-part workshop will bring together people working in the postsecondary sector (faculty, librarians, students, administrators) to discuss and reflect on knowledge making in the humanities (and in academia more broadly) within a society enmeshed with networked digital technology.

Workshop One will provide a brief overview of the history of “digital humanities” and some key debates within the field before asking participants to reflect upon and share their own past, present, and possible future engagements–positive, negative, and ambivalent–with digital technology.

Workshop Two will ask participants to share and discuss a proposed digital project of their own: this could be a digital creation (an edition, a database, a data visualisation, a tool, a game), a course or course assignment, a plan for self-directed study, an analysis of a digital artefact or phenomenon, or something else.

Register here: https://torontomu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwrf-CprTktGt0oEPkn59R9TCEZKKd7qMpe

THIS IS A HYBRID WORKSHOP AND MAY BE ATTENDED IN-PERSON OR ONLINE.

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