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SUMMARY:Using Python for natural language processing (NLP)
DESCRIPTION:Date: March 3\, 2027 at 9am PT | 10am ABT | 11am ET | 1pm AT\n\n\n\nDuration: 3 hours\n\n\n\nLanguage of instruction: English\n\n\n\n\nRegister here! \n\n\n\nInstructor: Marie-Hélène Burle is an evolutionary and behavioural biologist by training\, a Software/Data Carpentry instructor\, and an open source advocate. She develops and delivers high-performance computing and machine learning training for researchers at Canadian universities on behalf of Simon Fraser University and the Digital Research Alliance of Canada.
URL:https://ccdhhn.ca/workshop/using-python-for-natural-language-processing-nlp/
CATEGORIES:1-4 hour workshop
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SUMMARY:Creating and Sharing Maps Using ArcGIS Online
DESCRIPTION:Want to bring your data to life through interactive maps? This beginner-friendly workshop introduces the fundamentals of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and geospatial data before guiding you step-by-step through creating your own interactive web map using ArcGIS Online. Perfect for beginners\, this session combines essential theory with hands-on practice to help you confidently start mapping online. ArcGIS Online is available free of charge to current students\, staff\, and faculty at McMaster University for coursework and research. \n\n\n\nNo prior experience is needed! This session is perfect for beginners interested in mapping who want to learn how to work with geographic data and create digital maps using ArcGIS Online. \n\n\n\nBy the end of this session\, participants will be able to: \n\n\n\n\nExplain Geographic Information Systems (GIS) concepts and identify potential applications for GIS\n\n\n\nLocate sources of geospatial data\n\n\n\nApply the skills learned to author a simple map using ArcGIS Online.\n\n\n\n\nDetails: Any preparatory work for the session can be found on its information page. This workshop will not be recorded. \n\n\n\nWorkshop Prep: To follow along\, participants will need access to ArcGIS Online. Current McMaster students\, staff\, and faculty can request a license through the ArcGIS Software Request Form. \n\n\n\nInstructor: Christine Homuth
URL:https://ccdhhn.ca/workshop/creating-and-sharing-maps-using-arcgis-online-2/
CATEGORIES:1-4 hour workshop
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SUMMARY:Abducted by Aliens? 🛸 Building Sustainable File\, Folder & Documentation Workflows
DESCRIPTION:You arrive at work to see your project’s primary investigator/research coordinator/key graduate student disappearing into a UFO’s buzzing blue beam; with all their project knowledge and disconnected laptop gone forever…or at least til the aliens return them home. While an alien abduction is unlikely to strike your research team\, life happens: research coordinators get hired into roles at another university\, graduate students return home\, PIs go on research leave or get sick unexpectedly and need to step back. Clearly writing out research processes\, clear file and folder workflows\, organized data storage systems\, and more are excellent research practices to make sure everyone is on the same page and your research project is resilient to change. It can also help keep qualitative coding and variables or units of measurement in quantitative projects consistent across multiple researchers. Even if you’re going solo as a graduate student\, documenting your data and keeping a good research log will help you unpack what you did when it comes time to write up your project. \n\n\n\nNo prior knowledge is required! This session is designed for researchers who want to think through their documentation and workflows; from graduate students working alone to tenured faculty with a huge research team. Undergraduate students interested in future research might also find it interesting. \n\n\n\nBy the end of this session\, participants will be able to: \n\n\n\n\nCreate quality file names from bad ones\n\n\n\nDesign folder structures that make sense for their project\n\n\n\nIdentify types of documentation and locate templates and resources to help them create their own\n\n\n\nTransfer knowledge of storage workflows into their own projects\n\n\n\n\nDetails: Any preparatory work for the session can be found on its information page. This virtual workshop will be recorded and shared on the same page\, and discoverable via the Sherman Centre’s Online Learning Catalogue. \n\n\n\nInstructors: Danica Evering and Isaac Pratt
URL:https://ccdhhn.ca/workshop/abducted-by-aliens-%f0%9f%9b%b8-building-sustainable-file-folder-documentation-workflows/
CATEGORIES:1-4 hour workshop
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SUMMARY:Abducted by Aliens? 🛸 Building Sustainable File\, Folder & Documentation Workflows
DESCRIPTION:You arrive at work to see your project’s primary investigator/research coordinator/key graduate student disappearing into a UFO’s buzzing blue beam; with all their project knowledge and disconnected laptop gone forever…or at least til the aliens return them home. While an alien abduction is unlikely to strike your research team\, life happens: research coordinators get hired into roles at another university\, graduate students return home\, PIs go on research leave or get sick unexpectedly and need to step back. Clearly writing out research processes\, clear file and folder workflows\, organized data storage systems\, and more are excellent research practices to make sure everyone is on the same page and your research project is resilient to change. It can also help keep qualitative coding and variables or units of measurement in quantitative projects consistent across multiple researchers. Even if you’re going solo as a graduate student\, documenting your data and keeping a good research log will help you unpack what you did when it comes time to write up your project. \n\n\n\nNo prior knowledge is required! This session is designed for researchers who want to think through their documentation and workflows; from graduate students working alone to tenured faculty with a huge research team. Undergraduate students interested in future research might also find it interesting. \n\n\n\nBy the end of this session\, participants will be able to: \n\n\n\n\nCreate quality file names from bad ones\n\n\n\nDesign folder structures that make sense for their project\n\n\n\nIdentify types of documentation and locate templates and resources to help them create their own\n\n\n\nTransfer knowledge of storage workflows into their own projects\n\n\n\n\nDetails: Any preparatory work for the session can be found on its information page. This virtual workshop will be recorded and shared on the same page\, and discoverable via the Sherman Centre’s Online Learning Catalogue. \n\n\n\nInstructors: Danica Evering and Isaac Pratt
URL:https://ccdhhn.ca/workshop/abducted-by-aliens-%f0%9f%9b%b8-building-sustainable-file-folder-documentation-workflows-2/
CATEGORIES:1-4 hour workshop
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SUMMARY:How to deposit: Picking a data repository and preparing your data
DESCRIPTION:Date: March 16\, 2027 at 9am PT | 10am ABT | 12pm ET | 2pm AT\n\n\n\nDuration: 1 hour\n\n\n\nLanguage of instruction: English\n\n\n\n\nData deposit is an important part of the FAIR Principles and a crucial aspect of the research lifecycle\, especially as it is becoming a requirement for more and more funders and publishers. This workshop will provide guidance on how to find an appropriate repository and how to prepare your data for deposit. It will also highlight Canada’s national generalist repository\, the Federated Research Data Repository. \n\n\n\nRegister here! \n\n\n\nInstructor: Laura Gerlitz is a graduate of the University of Alberta with a Masters in Library and Information Science and a Masters of Arts in Digital Humanities\, and is currently a Metadata Analyst at the Digital Research Alliance of Canada. Previously\, she worked with the Federated Research Data Repository as a Curation Officer\, and at the Bank of Canada as a Metadata Librarian. She is involved in the Canadian RDM landscape as a member of the National HSS Team\, the Discovery and Metadata Expert Group and the Curation Expert Group.
URL:https://ccdhhn.ca/workshop/how-to-deposit-picking-a-data-repository-and-preparing-your-data/
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SUMMARY:Data Feminism: Power\, Inequality\, and Social Change
DESCRIPTION:Who gets counted\, who gets excluded\, and who benefits from the stories data tells? \n\n\n\nIn this workshop\, participants will be introduced to Data Feminism\, which Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren Klein describe as “a way of thinking about data\, both their uses and their limits\, that is informed by direct experience\, by a commitment to action\, and by intersectional feminist thought” (2020). Together\, we will explore how data practices can reproduce inequalities related to gender\, race\, sexuality\, disability\, class\, age\, geography\, and other intersecting systems of power\, as well as how data can be used to make those inequities visible\, challenge unequal distributions of power\, and support social change. Tying an understanding of inequality to a commitment to action\, we will introduce data practices that can help make equality a reality\, including Mel Mikhail’s proposals for data management in feminist research projects. Through an introduction to the principles of Data Feminism\, participants will reflect on how these ideas can inform their own research\, teaching\, community engagement\, and advocacy efforts. \n\n\n\nNew to Data Feminism? No problem! This workshop is designed for anyone interested in learning how data can be used to challenge inequities and support social change. Researchers\, educators\, students\, librarians\, staff\, and community members are all welcome. \n\n\n\nBy the end of this session\, participants will be able to: \n\n\n\n\nDescribe key principles of Data Feminism.\n\n\n\nExplain how systems of power shape data collection\, interpretation\, and use.\n\n\n\nIdentify opportunities to use data to amplify marginalized perspectives and advance social change.\n\n\n\nReflect on their own data types and what kinds of biases and ideological beliefs inform them.\n\n\n\n\nDetails: Any preparatory work for the session can be found on its information page. This virtual workshop will be recorded and shared on the same page\, and discoverable via the Sherman Centre’s Online Learning Catalogue. \n\n\n\nInstructors: Danica Evering and Lauren McLean
URL:https://ccdhhn.ca/workshop/data-feminism-power-inequality-and-social-change/
LOCATION:McMaster University\, 1280 Main St W\, Hamilton\, Ontario\, L8S 4L8\, Canada
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