Are you interested in sharing your educational materials for students and instructors to use and learn from? This workshop will focus on taking the content you’ve already created and turning […]
TIFU (Today I F’ed Up) by losing a ton of data for my research – Have you ever seen a description like this on Reddit? Are your desktop and downloads folders […]
Statistics Canada provides access to a rich collection of data resources that support research, teaching, policy development, and evidence-based decision-making. From Census data and national surveys to public use microdata […]
The landscape of social media data collection has changed significantly in recent years, creating new challenges and opportunities for researchers interested in studying online platforms. This workshop introduces Zeeschuimer and […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
This workshop will introduce the use of the Ollama application to extract text and structured data from images and sound recordings. It will cover installation and operation of Ollama, and […]
This session will introduce participants to OpenRefine, a powerful, free and open source tool to work with large datasets. We will quickly work through how to use OpenRefine to effectively […]
If you want to use Large Language Models for research you will want to test different combinations of evidence, prompts, and models. Chainforge is a free in-browser visual programming environment […]
Welcome to this workshop on R and R studio! In this session, participants will learn the basics of coding in R, and will become familiar with using RStudio. We will […]
Python has been one of the most popular programming languages for the past 20 years. Today it is a key language for data analysis in a huge number of fields, […]