Date: October 27th 2026 Learn the basics of using Git and GitHub for version control and collaboration. Git is widely used version control software that tracks changes to a group of files, referred to as a repository. GitHub is a popular website for hosting and sharing Git repositories, making it easier to collaborate and share your work. Together, Git […]
We use spreadsheet programs for entering, organizing, subsetting, and sorting data, for generating statistics and plots, and more. This course shows you some best practices that will result in fewer mistakes, greater reproducibility, and easier use of other software tools with data exported from spreadsheets. Learn how to: decide whether a spreadsheet or a database […]
Workshop: Licensing Your Research Data This practical workshop, delivered by the UBC Library Research Data Management team, explores how licensing supports responsible sharing, reuse, and attribution of research data. Aimed at graduate students, researchers, and staff, the session highlights best practices for applying data licenses that align with FAIR and open science principles within the Canadian data landscape. […]
Join the Sherman Centre and the Office of Community Engagement for an interactive workshop exploring digital tools and techniques that can enhance community-engaged courses. Through demonstrations, discussion, and hands-on exploration, participants will learn how to evaluate digital tools for specific teaching and partnership goals, identify best practices for implementation, and discover practical tips and tricks […]
Date: October 29th 2026 This workshop provides a gentle introduction to web mapping with , a free and open-source code library. No prior experience necessary! Join us to learn how to dynamically and interactively visualize geospatial data with maps that can be shared to others via a link.Note: This workshop is Part 2 of the series Intro […]
Researchers and librarians often deal with “messy” data. This could include inconsistent interview transcripts, poorly formatted longitudinal datasets, or standardizing names for an authority file. Preparing this data for analysis is a critical step that requires the same level of rigor and reproducibility as the analysis itself. This workshop introduces OpenRefine, a powerful, free, and […]
This introductory workshop explores how cloud computing can support research projects. Participants will be introduced to the fundamentals of cloud computing and be given the tools for determining when cloud computing is the right choice over high-performance computing (HPC). The workshop will provide an overview of the cloud services offered by the Digital Research Alliance […]
Learn how to create effective and funder-compliant Data Management Plans (DMPs) in this hands-on workshop led by UBC’s Research Data Management team, designed for graduate students and researchers across disciplines. Participants will explore best practices in research data planning and gain experience using the DMP Assistant tool, a free, bilingual platform maintained by the Digital Research Alliance […]
November 4th 2026 This workshop focuses on Large Language Models (LLM) to provide participants with a foundational understanding of LLM, their working, and how to fine-tune a pre-trained LLM for your own data. In this workshop, we will use cloud-based platforms, so you don’t need to have Python installed. Please make sure that you have […]
Simple Sabotage was a document written by the US Office of Strategic Services in 1944 to train everyday citizens to thwart the forces of fascism (a resource garnering renewed attention in this particular political moment). This quick fix workshop is a tongue-in-cheek update to train citizen-saboteurs to thwart the predetermined inevitability of corporate AI from […]
The ability to create effective visualizations of your research impact is a valuable skill when competing for grants, awards, and attention in a crowded research landscape. This hands-on workshop introduces participants to a range of tools and techniques for creating clear, compelling graphics that communicate research impact from multiple perspectives, including citation metrics, collaboration networks, […]
November 10th 2026 Regular expressions are a powerful and standardized way of representing patterns in text using special symbols and syntax. A core part of many programming languages, search engines, text editors, and other commonly-used software, regular expressions have a surprisingly wide array of uses, from efficiently finding strings of text in large data sets, […]