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SUMMARY:Creating High-Quality Documents with LaTeX
DESCRIPTION:Date: October 23 2025 \n\n\n\nWant more control over how your documents look and function? LaTeX is an open-source typesetting system used to create clean\, consistent\, and professional documents. It’s especially helpful for working with complex formatting\, citations\, or mathematical content\, and it’s a powerful tool for writing reports\, articles\, and long-form texts in any discipline. \n\n\n\nIn this beginner-friendly workshop\, you’ll learn the building blocks of LaTeX\, including how to format text\, structure a document\, and write equations. You’ll also walk through the process of creating your first LaTeX document from scratch. \n\n\n\nBy the end of this session\, participants will be able to: \n\n\n\n\nIdentify the basic structure and purpose of LaTeX documents\n\n\n\nFormat text and write mathematical equations using LaTeX commands\n\n\n\nCreate and compile a basic LaTeX document\n\n\n\n\nThis session is ideal for students\, researchers\, and writers in any field who want to explore LaTeX as a powerful alternative to traditional word processors—no prior experience required. \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\nFacilitator Bio: John Fink is the Digital Scholarship Librarian in the Sherman Centre. \n\n\n\nCertificate Eligibility: This workshop is eligible for the Sherman Centre’s certificate program. For more information\, visit scds.ca/certificate-program. It is also eligible for the Canadian Certificate for Digital Humanities. To learn more\, visit ccdhhn.ca or contact scds@mcmaster.ca. \n\n\n\nCredit Eligibility: This workshop counts toward credit for students in the Faculty of Science who are enrolled in SCIENCE 2SF1: Digital Skills Workshop. For any questions\, please contact oursci@mcmaster.ca.
URL:https://ccdhhn.ca/workshop/creating-high-quality-documents-with-latex/
LOCATION:Nova Scotia
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SUMMARY:Plugins in QGIS
DESCRIPTION:Date: October 23 2025 \n\n\n\nInstructor: Lily Crandall-Oral \n\n\n\nThis intermediate-level workshop is meant to extend basic knowledge of QGIS by exploring common plugins. Familiarity of the QGIS is therefore a prerequisite. By the end of this workshop\, participants will be able to use plugins to \n\n\n\n\nAccess dynamic basemaps hosted on web servers\n\n\n\nQuery and download Open Street Map (OSM) data\n\n\n\nGeocode address data from a spreadsheet\, and\n\n\n\nCreate an interactive webmap from a QGIS project\n\n\n\n\nFamiliarity with GIS is prerequisite for this workshop. \n\n\n\nThis workshop is taught by a graduate student in Geography with expertise in GIS and cartographic methods. \n\n\n\nThings to do before arriving:\n\n\n\nQGIS is a free and open source desktop geographic information system (GIS). It can be installed on Windows\, MacOS\, and Linux using the download instructions here: https://www.qgis.org/en/site/forusers/download.html. \n\n\n\nBefore attending\, please download the most recent QGIS Long Term Release and review the Research Commons’ Introduction to QGIS.
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LOCATION:Nova Scotia
CATEGORIES:1-4 hour workshop
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