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Advanced Topics in Semi Diplomatic Transcriptions (Webinar 1)
2024-08-08 00:00 - 23:59 (America/Halifax) | LEMDO
In this technical webinar, Director of LEMDO, Janelle Jenstad, will go through how to encode speech prefixes and literary divisions in semi-diplomatic transcriptions. We are excited to welcome Mahayla Galliford, LEMDO Senior Encoder, to speak on encoding stage directions in semi-diplomatic transcriptions.

Advanced Topics in Semi-Diplomatic Transcriptions (Webinar 2)
2024-08-22 00:00 - 23:59 | LEMDO
In this technical webinar, LEMDO Project Manager, Navarra Houldin, will go into detail about inline styling for semi-diplomatic transcriptions. This will include support using CSS within TEI files and an introduction to CSS Flex.

Basics of Computers
2024-09-20 13:00 - 15:00 | Nova Scotia
Most of us have experience using a computer, whether for school, work, or entertainment, but how many of us have actually had an expert teach us how to use it? When one of your computing devices goes wrong, do you struggle to understand why? Perhaps you do an internet search in the hope that someone else who has had the exact same problem as you found a solution that also works for you. It doesn’t need to be (quite) this way. This talk doesn’t teach you how to troubleshoot everything, but does give you insight to how media, programs and data are encoded and used by computers so you can make more sense of why computers behave the ways they do and solve some of your problems with greater efficiency and less frustration. We provide an approachable overview of how a computer works, by both looking at their history and breaking one down to explain individual components, before highlighting some of the tradeoffs to consider when buying a computer. We provide practical, simple, and actionable advice on digital security and show you a few “pro tips” on how to make the most of your workstation, phone, or whatever device you happen to use. Whether you have a lot or a little experience using your digital technology, if you want to learn how to use your devices more effectively, this workshop is for you!

Collation (Technical)
2024-09-26 00:00 - 23:59 | LEMDO
In this technical webinar, LEMDO Project Manager, Navarra Houldin, will teach LEMDO encoders how to create links in the LEMDO environment using anchors, pointers, and references.

Machine Learning and Open Science: Research Data Management Community of Practice
2024-09-26 00:00 - 23:59 | McMaster University, 1280 Main St W, Hamilton, Ontario, L8S 4L8, Canada
Date: 26 September 2024

Machine Learning and Open Science: Research Data Management Community of Practice Online

Our Research Data Management Community of Practice is back with a bang! September’s session is all about Machine Learning and Open Science. With training data impacting research results, what’s the best way to share ML-based science and ensure research is reproducible and valid? Join us Thursday, September 26 at 11 AM for a great discussion between researchers!

Dr. Alemu Gonsamo (Canada Research Chair in Remote Sensing of Terrestrial Ecosystems, Earth, Environment & Society) and Ricardo Barros Lourenco (Earth, Environment & Society) will unpack training algorithms with data from the Ministry of Natural Resources and then sharing data for a recent paper on peat depth and carbon storage.

Dr. Cynthia Lokker (Health Research Methods, Evidence & Impact) and Rick Parrish (Programmer/Analyst, Health Information Research Unit) will discuss sharing machine learning data for an article and their move from data available on request to a publicly findable restricted access dataset backed by a data sharing agreement. Rick will also share details on depositing an algorithm separately from a dataset.

Introducing Digital Scholarship 1: Digital Storytelling, Counter Narratives and Design Fictions
2024-10-01 00:00 - 23:59 | McMaster University, 1280 Main St W, Hamilton, Ontario, L8S 4L8, Canada
Date: 1 October 2024

In the first installment of this two-event series, learn more about the interdisciplinary, multifaceted, and emergent approaches to digital scholarship from our 2024 Graduate Residency cohort.

Storying Disability: Digital Community Archives as Public Memorial at New York’s Craig Colony for Epileptics – Katie Waring

My project seeks to understand patient experiences with institutionalization at the Craig Colony for Epileptics in Sonyea, New York. As the first such institution for disabled people in the United States, the Craig Colony occupies an important role in disability history, yet little attention has been paid to the experiences of the patients forced to live there. This project integrates oral histories with survivors alongside archival research and photographs into an interactive digital map for users to explore and navigate using the design tool Vev. In this presentation, I will showcase the map and discuss the possibilities digital storytelling can offer as a strategic practice of remembrance in unearthing disability history, as well as how such strategic practices can help advocate for new and better futures for disabled communities.

Katie Waring (she/her) is a multimedia writer and doctoral candidate in the Communication, New Media, and Cultural Studies program at McMaster. Her research aims to understand the potential for community-engaged digital storytelling in highlighting suppressed histories. She holds an MFA in nonfiction writing from the University of Pittsburgh and her creative work has been published in literary journals such as The Normal School and American Literary Review, among others. She’s originally from New York State.

“The Exotic Amazon and The Exotic Woman”: Practicing Refusal Through Digital Counter-storytelling – Andrea Vela Alarcón

My project aims to be a creative digital intervention presenting illustrated AR vignettes and questions reflecting the gendered relations shaped by the long history of resource extraction in Iquitos (Peru). This project departs from the framework of refusal, a concept and practice rooted in Indigenous and Black thought. Refusal exposes and rejects the histories, knowledge production practices and relations of oppression taking away our subjecthood. However, refusal is also a creative outlet embracing the “possibility of living otherwise” (Campt, 2019). This presentation showcases three AR vignettes enacting a creative refusal by being a tool and entry point to explore the gendered violence and colonial resource extraction in Iquitos. I will discuss the possibilities digital counter-storytelling open as a process and site of political action exposing and unmasking non-innocent histories legitimizing resource extraction’s gendered violence of Amazonian girls and women.

Andrea Vela Alarcón (she/her/Ella) is a community educator, illustrator and doctoral candidate in Communication, New Media, and Cultural Studies at McMaster University. Her academic, creative and pedagogical practices are rooted in anti-colonial approaches and feminist care ethics to facilitate spaces of critical conversations and creation geared toward a world beyond extraction. Through her work, Andrea collaborates with communities in the crafting of stories that center refusal and resistance for environmental justice.

Fostering Creative Confidence: Reframing Ambiguity Through Storytelling and Design Fiction – Fatima Nazir

As part of my ongoing work, I have developed a workshop that empowers students from various disciplines to build ‘creative confidence’ through storytelling and by reframing ambiguity in ways that foster excitement and joy in learning. This workshop, within the context of Design Thinking education, helps students view ambiguity as an opportunity for innovation rather than discomfort. I will discuss how design fiction—a method that creates story worlds in which prototypes explore discursive spaces—facilitates this shift. Participants redesign everyday objects to reflect future scenarios or alternate realities, imagining futures that encompass technological, social, and cultural narratives. With prompts, collaborative prototyping, and reflective discussion, the workshop fosters creativity, risk-taking, and comfort with ambiguity across various fields.

Fatima Nazir has a multidisciplinary background in applied psychology and human behaviour and is pursuing graduate studies in Engineering Design (Product Design). Passionate about storytelling and human-centered design, her work in research, design, and collaborative projects aims to create inclusive spaces that place people’s stories at the heart of product decisions. Her work spans from reimagining learning experiences and fostering creativity in education to advancing co-design practices in engineering and healthcare to address systemic challenges and improve outcomes.

Let’s Talk! Academic Podcast Entanglements – Milica Hinic

My graduate residency project for the Sherman Centre is a podcast series titled, The Academic Podcast Entanglements. It is composed of 8 episodes of in-depth conversations with transdisciplinary academic podcasters from Humanities and Social Sciences. My presentation will focus on the ways faculty, staff, and students use podcasting as a method within knowledge mobilization systems. I will discuss the many ways podcasts engage individual or collective knowledge brokers such as academics, researchers, students, community members, organizations, etc. Through these critical conversations the academic podcast amplifies the values and tensions of: (1) lived experiences (2) co-creation of meanings (3) and building relationships. The goal is to share what we know, what we don’t know and make spaces for new ways of doing podcasting in our digital futures.

Milica Hinic (She/Her) is an MA student in Communication and New Media at McMaster University. Her research interests include podcasting and knowledge mobilization in higher education and beyond. She finds innovative ways of sharing information and connecting knowledge brokers across diverse fields, institutions, organizations, and communities. As a result, she co-designs projects from beginning to end and co-creates meaningful project outputs that generate social impact.

Details: This virtual workshop will be recorded and shared on the same page, and discoverable via the Sherman Centre’s Online Learning Catalogue.

Best Practices for Managing Data in your Research
2024-10-02 00:00 - 23:59 | McMaster University, 1280 Main St W, Hamilton, Ontario, L8S 4L8, Canada
Date: 2 October 2024

TIFU 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 a jumble of files named Data-finalFINAL-USETHISONE? Is all of your lab’s data stored on a single drive? Join research data management services and learn how investing a small amount of time in organizing your data now can save you a lot of time and prevent future headaches. In this introductory workshop, learn about research data management best practices. We will go over best practices for data planning, storage, organization, preservation, and sharing.

By the end of the session participants will be empowered to: Produce a plan for their data, organize and document their data consistently, store and back-up their data securely, and select an appropriate data repository for archival and sharing.

Details: This virtual workshop will be recorded. The recording will be posted to the Sherman Centre’s Online Learning Catalogue.

Facilitator Bio:

Isaac Pratt (he/him) is a research scientist by training and has a PhD in Anatomy & Cell Biology. He leverages nearly a decade of interdisciplinary research experience to help support students, staff, and faculty. His expertise lies in questions surrounding data storage, security, planning, archival, and sharing. Isaac also provides support and curation services for McMaster Dataverse. His other interests include reproducible research methods, open science, and data science.

Danica Evering holds expansive experience with research support, education, project management, advocacy, and knowledge translation; with fluency in social practice art, healthcare, community research, data, and systems development. Danica supports students, postdocs, faculty, and staff with RDM through the data lifecycle—Data Management Plans, storage and backup, data security, data sharing. With an MA in Media Studies from Concordia, they are interested in fostering RDM within curious scholars and disciplines.

Introducing Digital Scholarship 2: Data Analysis, Open-Source Tool Development, Platform Governance and Algorithmic Harms
2024-10-02 00:00 - 23:59 | McMaster University, 1280 Main St W, Hamilton, Ontario, L8S 4L8, Canada
Date: 2 October 2024

In the second installment of this two-event series, learn more about the interdisciplinary, multifaceted, and emergent approaches to digital scholarship from our 2024 Graduate Residency cohort.

Developing standardized methods for transportation analysis – Bruno dos Santos

Transportation poverty occurs when financial difficulties and transportation challenges make it difficult for people to participate in daily activities. In Canada, this problem is aggravated by a lack of standards to ensure the fair distribution of transportation infrastructure and limited guidance for planners to address equity in their projects. However, with data now more accessible than ever, there are opportunities to improve equity in transportation planning. My presentation highlights the standardized methods I developed for transportation analysis during my residency at the Sherman Centre. I will present the COMMUTECA21 R package, created in collaboration with McMaster University’s Centre for Research Data, which provides tools for conducting transportation analysis of accessibility in any region of Canada using national survey data.

Bruno dos Santos (He/Him) is a Ph.D. student in the School of Earth, Environment & Society at McMaster University. He holds a M.Sc. in Remote Sensing from the National Institute for Space Research (São Paulo, Brazil). His doctoral research focuses on understanding how transportation acts as a barrier for individuals in finding or maintaining employment.

Unlocking Toddler Activity Insights: Introducing an Easy-to-Use Machine Learning Tool for Everyone – Elyse Letts

This presentation will showcase the latest version of my new open-source tool to assess toddler physical activity. This python tool allows non-experts to use a machine learning model without needing to code. It produces a physical activity summary from a raw accelerometer data file. Physical activity is essential for children’s healthy growth and development. The Canadian 24-hour Movement Behaviour Guidelines suggests that toddlers get 180 minutes of daily physical activity. To understand if toddlers are meeting guidelines, we must first accurately measure their activity. In my thesis work, I have developed a machine learning model that measures toddler activity. I have expanded this into a tool that can be easily used by those who work with toddlers, for example clinicians, researchers, and public health agencies.

Elyse Letts (she/her) is a PhD student in Medical Sciences at McMaster University with the Child Health & Exercise Medicine Program. Her research focuses on improving physical activity and sedentary time measurement in toddlers as well as investigating the impact of physical activity on toddler health outcomes. Prior to joining McMaster, she completed an undergraduate degree (BSc) in Kinesiology at the University of Waterloo.

Understanding the role of civil society in multistakeholder global platform governance at UNESCO – Brad McNeil

In October 2023, UNESCO released its ‘Guidelines for the Governance of Digital Platforms,’ a major step in global digital platform governance by an international intergovernmental body. The Guidelines were developed through multistakeholder consultations occurring from December 2022 to June 2023, involving the public and private sectors, civil society, media, academia, and the technical community. The consultation process engaged 134 nations and received over 10,000 comments, making it one of UNESCO’s largest open consultations to date. Although UNESCO offered select quantitative data to showcase the diversity of stakeholders involved and to summarize feedback received, these summaries provide an incomplete picture of the multistakeholder process. My project uses the anonymized consultation data to critically assess the multistakeholder quality of the consultations, particularly highlighting concerns from civil society in the Global South. This presentation will explore alternative data visualizations to better represent these voices, offering a critical perspective on the institutional narrative.

Brad McNeil (He/Him) is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Communication Studies and Media Arts at McMaster University.  His research interests lie at the multiple intersections between freedom of expression, content moderation, and platform governance. His doctoral research focuses on global platform governance, with special attention to the ways that international organizations such as Intergovernmental institutions and non-governmental organizations are structuring a vision of global platform governance.

Understanding the Nature and Risks of Welfare Algorithmic Harms – Anabelle Ragsag

With the rise of the use of networked technologies and algorithms comes the intensification of surveillance. As welfare and social assistance systems adopting AI, algorithms, and automation, the poor are increasingly subjected to new modes and intensified ways and systems of surveillance and regulation. This presentation will share what the AI, Algorithmic, and Automation Incidents and Controversies Repository (the AIAAIC Repository) have identified as algorithmic incidents in the welfare system around the world, their nature, risks, and impacts. This presentation for the 2024 Sherman Centre Graduate Residency is a smaller part of my doctoral thesis that aims to understand how Asian solo mothers experience welfare surveillance and how do they identify and make use of their agency in this surveillance-heavy contexts.

Anabelle Ragsag is a PhD student at the School of Social Work who is interested in the politics and technologies of social assistance. Originally from Mindanao, southern Philippines, Anabelle is a community organizer based in Hamilton. Through her program development and evaluation work; teaching, speaking and writing; and parenting, she tackles systemic inequities by building the capacity of racialized women, to collaborate with other women, to challenge structures, and to create spaces within and outside those that exclude them.

Breaking the Silence: Understanding HPV Vaccination Gaps among Canadian Men – Naharin Sultana Anni

Human Papillomavirus (HPV) is often associated with women due to its link to cervical cancer, overshadowing the significant risk it poses to men. In Canada, men are frequently overlooked by HPV vaccination programs, leaving them vulnerable to HPV-related cancers like oropharyngeal and laryngeal cancers, due to limited awareness, cultural stigmas, and absence of targeted vaccination efforts.

This project aims to address these gaps through a comprehensive online survey targeting men residing in Canada aged 16 and above, available in English and French. The survey explores knowledge, attitudes, and practices surrounding HPV and its vaccine. This presentation will highlight preliminary results from the first 100 participants, focusing on key trends in awareness, barriers to vaccination, and implications for public health strategies to create inclusive vaccination programs.

Naharin Sultana Anni is a Ph.D. candidate in Global Health at McMaster University, focusing on knowledge, attitudes, and practices related to HPV among men in Canada. Her research aims to provide insights that can shape effective public health strategies and promote inclusive HPV vaccination programs. She holds an MBBS from the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, and a Master of Public Health (MPH) from Yonsei University, South Korea.

Details: This virtual workshop will be recorded and shared on the same page, and discoverable via the Sherman Centre’s Online Learning Catalogue.Date:

Data Management Plan Bootcamp
2024-10-04 00:00 - 23:59 | McMaster University, 1280 Main St W, Hamilton, Ontario, L8S 4L8, Canada
Date: 4 October 2024

Data Management Plans (DMPs) are both incredibly helpful research tools and increasingly required for grants but it can hard to know how to complete a Data Management Plan if it’s your first time. If you’re in the process of creating a DMP, either for a grant application or for your own research, join RDM Services for this afternoon session. By the end of the session, you’ll understand what the major components of a DMP are and walk away with a potentially completed plan for your own research!

This session is especially relevant if you’re in the beginning stages of a research project or streamlining best practices for your research team. Come on your own, send your research staff, or bring your whole research group. This 3-hour session will briefly introduce the different sections of a DMP and all the important things to consider as you build it. The RDM services team will provide tailored guidance as you write your plan on site, and we’ll have some light snacks and refreshments to keep you going. Come away with a clear path forward or even a finished DMP!

Let us know if you’re solo or joining as a research team – we’ll make sure you space to work together.

Learning Outcomes: Identify a strong data management plan compared to a weak response, section by section. Produce a solid outline of their own DMP.

Preliminary Work: Consult with PIs, supervisors, or anyone else to ensure you have access to any data-related information (including ethics requirements) you need to actively work on a DMP.

Details: This workshop will not be recorded.

“What gets counted… counts.” Data feminist approaches to digital humanities research
2024-10-08 00:00 - 23:59 | University of Ottawa, 50 University Private, Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 6N5, Canada
Date: 8 October 2024

STUDENTS from Big Data, Culture and Society will share their work applying a data feminist approach to research on targeted ad promotion, use of generative AI in fanfiction communities, computer science curricula, and more!

English presentation.

Introduction to JupyterLab
2024-10-08 00:00 - 23:59 | Nova Scotia
Date: 8 October 2024

Using a single development environment for all stages of your research project can greatly facilitate your work organization. To do so, our team recommends JupyterLab, a software package that combines code, text, equations, graphics and visualizations in a single document. This tool can also execute program lines one at a time, allowing you to pinpoint their respective effects. This training course will allow you to make the most of JupyterLab’s graphical interface and key features.

Registration

Academic participant : 10$

Non-academic participant : $200

Prerequisites

Knowing the keyboard combinations for these characters: [ ] ( ) { } ! $ | * # @ & / < > ~ ‘ “

Understanding the notions of file and directory.

Course plan

Introduction to JupyterLab

Best practices.

Notebooks (Python, R, Julia)

Virtual Desktop, VS Code, OpenRefine

Resource Monitoring

Instructor

Elie El Haber, analyst in advanced research computing at Calcul Québec.

Introduction à la programmation avec Python [en ligne, PYT101]
2024-10-15 00:00 - 23:59 | Nova Scotia
15 octobre 2024

La programmation est un outil polyvalent qui permet de mener à terme des projets variés, dont l’analyse de vos données, leur manipulation et l’automatisation de tâches. Cette formation vous permettra de découvrir la programmation et de réfléchir à son intégration dans un projet de recherche. Les concepts abordés existent dans la plupart des langages de programmation. Cet atelier est donc pertinent même si vous souhaitez analyser vos données avec un langage autre que Python.

Inscription

Participant académique : 10$

Participant non-académique : 200$

Prérequis

Comprendre les concepts de fichiers et dossiers;

Avoir suivi UNX101 ou connaitre les bases de la ligne de commande Unix.

Plan de cours

Les bases

Analyse de données

Visualisation

Les listes

Répétitions d’opérations

Expressions conditionnelles

Fonctions

Formateur

Charles Coulombe, analyste en calcul informatique de pointe à Calcul Québec.

Prérequis techniques

Nous utiliserons Zoom comme plateforme. Comme il s’agit d’un atelier pratique, il est utile d’avoir deux écrans afin de pouvoir afficher l’écran de l’instructeur d’un côté et votre propre écran de l’autre.

Nous utiliserons aussi l’interface Jupyter Lab. Assurez-vous d’avoir un navigateur Web moderne tel que Google Chrome, Firefox, Edge ou Safari.

Contact

Pour toutes questions, écrivez-nous à formation@calculquebec.ca.

N﻿otes

La formation pourrait être annulée advenant un nombre trop peu élevé d’inscriptions.

La formation n’est pas enregistrée;

Optimizing Research Impact: Establishing and Maintaining Researcher Profiles
2024-10-16 00:00 - 23:59 | McMaster University, 1280 Main St W, Hamilton, Ontario, L8S 4L8, Canada
Date: 16 October 2024

The ability to effectively track and express your research impact is an essential skill for today’s researchers. Profile tools like ORCID, Google Scholar, and McMaster Experts provide a valuable space to showcase your research outputs (from publications to datasets to creative works) and enable efficient workflows for demonstrating your impact. In this webinar, we will guide researchers through the process of establishing researcher profiles: from initial set-up, to efficient maintenance; to the generation of basic impact reports.

Learning Outcomes: Attendees will learn how to: 1) Select the most appropriate research profile(s) for their needs. 2) Automate the initial population and maintenance of their research profile(s). 3) Generate basic research impact reports using profile data.

Details: 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.

Facilitator Bio:

Jack Young (he/him) is McMaster’s Research Impact Librarian, supporting the use of bibliometric data to enhance the reporting and strategic planning practices of the University’s academic departments, institutes, and researchers.

Sabrina Kirby (she/her) is the Research Technology Analyst for the McMaster Experts service, providing support to researchers and research administrations working with their Experts profiles and the varous systems and integrations that comprise McMaster Experts.

Introduction to R
2024-10-17 00:00 - 23:59 | McMaster University, 1280 Main St W, Hamilton, Ontario, L8S 4L8, Canada
Date: 17 October 2024

This beginner-level workshop will focus on basic concepts of R programming using R Studio. Various Data Types and Data Structures will be discussed as well as basic data manipulation. No prior knowledge of R programming is required for this workshop. This workshop consists of a synchronous workshop session, which will be recorded and shared publicly afterward.

Learning Outcomes: Get started with R Programming after learning the basic concepts.

Details: 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.

Facilitator Bio:

Vivek Jadon (he/him) provides research support in the use of numeric research data. As part of his role, Vivek is McMaster University’s official representative for Statistics Canada’s Data Liberation Initiative (DLI) program and Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR). Both of these programs provide researchers with vast archive of research data from various disciplines for high quality research and instruction. Vivek is also involved in building awareness and promoting RDM activities/services at McMaster.

The Around the World of Parliamentary Immunity: A Case Study of Comparative Legislative Research in Three Post-British Rule Parliaments
2024-10-22 00:00 - 23:59 | University of Ottawa, 50 University Private, Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 6N5, Canada
Date: 22 October 2024

This workshop takes place from 11:30-12:30 (Eastern) in Perez Hall room 302.

Parliamentary immunity is a significant aspect of parliamentary life. Created centuries ago by the British House of Commons, the system has influenced other national legislative bodies. However, little is known about the degree to which elements of the Westminster model have been inherited by parliaments. DR. SHLOMI BALABAN (postdoctoral fellow at uOttawa) is joining us to demonstrate how he’s using ArcGIS Storymaps alongside previously unpublished digitized archival materials to visually represent parliamentary connections as a form of “geo-digital genealogy” of the law.

English presentation.

Modernization (Technical)
2024-10-24 00:00 - 23:59 | LEMDO
In this technical webinar, LEMDO Project Manager, Navarra Houldin, will introduce the basics of regular expressions (regex). This useful tool will help editors to quickly find-and-replace in their modernized text template files.

Introduction to programming with Python [online, PYT101]
2024-10-29 00:00 - 23:59 | Nova Scotia
Date: 29 October 2024

Programming serves as a versatile tool for a wide range of endeavours, including analyzing data, manipulating data, and automating tasks. Through this workshop, you will learn the basics of programming and consider how it fits into your research project. These concepts aren’t exclusive to Python; they’re applicable to most programming languages, making this workshop pertinent regardless of your chosen language.

Registration

Academic participant : 10$

Non-academic participant : $200

Prerequisites

Understanding the notions of file and directory;

UNX101 completion or knowledge of the basics of the Unix command line.

Course plan

Basics

Data analysis

Visualization

Lists

Repeated operations

Conditional expressions

Functions

Instructor

Charles Coulombe, analyst in advanced research computing at Calcul Québec.

Technical prerequisites

We will use the Zoom platform. Because this event is a practical workshop, it is very useful having a secondary screen where you would get the instructor window on one screen and your own window on your main screen.

We will use the Jupyter Lab interface. Make sure you have a modern Web browser like Google Chrome, Firefox, Edge or Safari.

Contact

For any question, please write to training@calculquebec.ca.

Notes

The workshop could be canceled if the number of registrations is too low.

The workshop is not recorded;

Introduction aux humanités numériques
2024-10-29 00:00 - 23:59 | UQAM | Université du Québec à Montréal, 400 rue Sainte-Catherine, Montreal, Québec, H2L 2C5
Les humanités numériques réfèrent à l’utilisation d’outils et de pratiques numériques dans les sphères des sciences humaines et sociales et des arts et lettres. Le numérique peut intervenir à différents moments d’une recherche en sciences humaines et sociales et en arts et lettres, et ce, peu importe la nature et la portée du projet.

Cette présentation se veut une introduction aux méthodes et outils en humanités numériques ainsi qu’un tour d’horizon des ressources et services offerts au Service des bibliothèques de l’UQAM en lien avec les humanités numériques.

Guides liés: Humanités numériques by Simon Côté-Lapointe

Introduction à la gestion de révision avec Git [en ligne, GIT101]
2024-10-30 00:00 - 23:59 | Nova Scotia
30 octobre 2024

Que ce soit dans le cadre d’un projet de développement ou d’analyse, la gestion des versions permet de garder une trace de votre travail et de faciliter la coordination avec vos collègues. Cette formation vous présentera les bases de la gestion de code source avec Git, le logiciel de suivi des versions recommandé par notre équipe.

Inscription

Participant académique : 10$

Participant non-académique : 200$

Prérequis

Connaitre les combinaisons de touches associées à ces caractères: [ ] ( ) { } ! $ | * # @ & / < > ~ ‘ “

Comprendre les concepts de fichiers et dossiers.

Avoir suivi UNX101 ou connaitre les bases de la ligne de commande Unix.

Plan de cours

Introduction à la gestion des version;

Configuration de Git;

Création de dépôt;

Suivi des versions;

Exploration de l’historique;

Ignorer certains fichiers;

Dépôts distants;

Collaboration;

Gestion des conflits;

Formateur

Charles Coulombe, analyste en calcul informatique de pointe à Calcul Québec.

Langue du cours

Français

Prérequis techniques

Nous utiliserons Zoom comme plateforme. Comme il s’agit d’un atelier pratique, il est utile d’avoir deux écrans afin de pouvoir afficher l’écran de l’instructeur d’un côté et votre propre écran de l’autre.

Nous utiliserons aussi l’interface Jupyter Lab. Assurez-vous d’avoir un navigateur Web moderne tel que Google Chrome, Firefox, Edge ou Safari.

Contact

Pour toutes questions, écrivez-nous à formation@calculquebec.ca.

N﻿otes

La formation pourrait être annulée advenant un nombre trop peu élevé d’inscriptions.

La formation n’est pas enregistrée.

Tidy data (using spreadsheet programs for data organization)
2024-11-04 00:00 - 23:59 | Nova Scotia
Date: 4 November 2024

This workshop aims to teach researchers, librarians, and information professionals basic concepts, skills, and tools for working with data to get more done quickly and with less pain. In this lesson, you will learn good data entry practices, how to avoid common formatting mistakes, approaches for handling dates in spreadsheets, basic quality control and data manipulation, and exporting data from spreadsheets. This domain-specific workshop focuses on examples and challenges from Humanities, Social Sciences, and library research fields and uses librarycarpentry.org materials.

Technical requirements: have spreadsheet software installed prior to the workshop. Library Carpentry suggests LibreOffice.

La création de graphiques, cartes et tableaux avec Datawrapper
2024-11-04 00:00 - 23:59 | UQAM | Université du Québec à Montréal, 400 rue Sainte-Catherine, Montreal, Québec, H2L 2C5
Datawrapper est un outil de visualisation de données en ligne gratuit qui permet de créer des graphiques, des cartes et des tableaux interactifs. Vous pouvez ensuite les intégrer dans un site Web, ou l’exporter au format PNG, PDF ou SVG afin de l’imprimer ou de l’insérer dans des travaux de recherche, des rapports ou des présentations.

Cette présentation en ligne propose un tour d’horizon du fonctionnement de Datawrapper et des étapes nécessaires pour vous lancer dans la création de votre première visualisation.

Pour vous donner un avant-goût, voici un exemple de tableau interactif créé avec Datawrapper :

Atelier présenté et animé par Justin Roy

Titulaire d’une maîtrise en sciences de l’information, Justin Roy est chargé de projet chez Minwashin et responsable de la bibliothèque numérique Nipakanatik.

Guides liés: Humanités numériques by Simon Côté-Lapointe

Partageons les ondes
2024-11-05 00:00 - 23:59 | University of Ottawa, 50 University Private, Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 6N5, Canada
Date: 5 novembre 2024

Cet atelier a lieu de 11h30 à 12h30 (heure de l’Est) dans la salle 302 du Perez Hall.

Quelles sont les voix qui se font entendre à la radio canadienne ? Les stations canadiennes respectent-elles les exigences de contenu canadien ? Quelles histoires sont conservées dans les catalogues des stations ? LA DRE JADA WATSON (École des sciences de l’information à l’uOttawa) discutera de la dernière étude de SongData sur la représentation de la programmation radiophonique. Rejoignez-nous pour en savoir plus sur les chansons des artistes qui sont diffusées et celles qui ne le sont pas, et sur les mesures qui pourraient être prises pour atténuer les pratiques de programmation préjudiciables à la radio canadienne.

Présentation française.

Introduction to Typesetting with LaTeX
2024-11-06 00:00 - 23:59 | McMaster University, 1280 Main St W, Hamilton, Ontario, L8S 4L8, Canada
Date: 6 November 2024

This workshop will introduce you to LaTeX, a typesetting system commonly used in STEM disciplines to create high-quality documents and easily write mathematical equations.

In this tutorial, we will discuss tools for writing in LaTeX, the structural elements of LaTeX, text formatting, and commands for writing mathematical equations. You will also learn the commands to create your first LaTeX document.

Details: 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.

Facilitator Bios:

John Fink (he/they) is the Digital Scholarship Librarian at McMaster University Library. Their talents lie in complex and innovative systems administration and project management. He also has an interest in the maker/hacker element in digital scholarship, and is frequently spotted tinkering with esoteric hardware. If you are interested in having the Sherman Centre support your project, John is an excellent first contact.

Katie is a learning support librarian who works with the Faculty of Engineering to help engineering students learn how to understand, find, read, interpret, and create different types of information sources. She has spent the last decade teaching and providing research support to students and researchers in science and engineering. Her recent projects have focused on the development of some exciting new open educational resources.

Analyse et visualisation de données avec Python [en ligne, DAT201]
2024-11-06 00:00 - 23:59 | Nova Scotia
Séance 1 (2024-11-06)

Séance 2 (2024-11-13)

La programmation est un outil polyvalent qui permet de mener à terme des projets variés, dont l’analyse de vos données, leur manipulation et l’automatisation de tâches. Cette formation vous permettra de découvrir la programmation et de réfléchir à son intégration dans un projet de recherche. Les concepts abordés existent dans la plupart des langages de programmation. Cet atelier est donc pertinent même si vous souhaitez analyser vos données avec un langage autre que Python.

Inscription

Participant académique : 10$

Participant non-académique : 200$

Prérequis

Comprendre les concepts de fichiers et dossiers;

Avoir suivi UNX101 ou connaitre les bases de la ligne de commande Unix.

Plan de cours

Les bases

Analyse de données

Visualisation

Les listes

Répétitions d’opérations

Expressions conditionnelles

Fonctions

Formateur

Charles Coulombe, analyste en calcul informatique de pointe à Calcul Québec.

Prérequis techniques

Nous utiliserons Zoom comme plateforme. Comme il s’agit d’un atelier pratique, il est utile d’avoir deux écrans afin de pouvoir afficher l’écran de l’instructeur d’un côté et votre propre écran de l’autre.

Nous utiliserons aussi l’interface Jupyter Lab. Assurez-vous d’avoir un navigateur Web moderne tel que Google Chrome, Firefox, Edge ou Safari.

Contact

Pour toutes questions, écrivez-nous à formation@calculquebec.ca.

N﻿otes

La formation pourrait être annulée advenant un nombre trop peu élevé d’inscriptions.

La formation n’est pas enregistrée;

Introduction to Python & Coding for HSS - Part I & II of the HSS Python Series
2024-11-06 00:00 - 23:59 | Nova Scotia
Dates: November 6 & 13, 2024

Description: This is a beginner-level 4-part series for humanities and social sciences researchers (HSS) and librarians. Introduction to Python & Coding for HSS – Parts I & II focus on introducing participants to basic coding concepts and fundamentals to help them confidently participate in high-level conceptual discussions with computer programmers or technical team members. We will use Python due to its vast popularity, easy syntax, and powerful extensions while working in the user-friendly and convenient JupyterLab environment. These general concepts will be reinforced and illustrated with the hands-on development of simple programs that can help with text-based research and analysis immediately.

Participants can continue in the series to apply the Python knowledge with API Querying (Part III) and Textual Analysis (Part IV). It is highly recommended that you complete the 2-part Python series before joining API Querying and Textual Analysis. For the Python workshops, you do not need any previous knowledge of the tools that will be presented or prior programming experience.

Technical requirements: Install Python using Anaconda. To run Python, we are going to use Jupyter Notebooks via JupyterLab. If you installed Anaconda, JupyterLab is installed on your system.

Literary Divisions (Editorial-Technical)
2024-11-07 00:00 - 23:59 | LEMDO
In this hybrid editorial-technical webinar, LEMDO Director Janelle Jenstad will explain how to “Create Acts, Scenes, and Characters Lists in Your Modernized Text.”

The webinar will cover the basics of literary divisions and character lists; offer tips on dealing with tricky literary divisions like choruses, inter-act unit, prologues, and epilogues; and go through some of the trickier challenges in dealing with evolving speech prefixes, character groups, and unnamed characters. TEI-XML skills: We will focus on the , , , , , , , and
elements.

Anthology leads, current editors, prospective editors, and LEMDO-curious students and scholars are very welcome!

Led by: Janelle Jenstad

Visualizing with Power BI
2024-11-11 00:00 - 23:59 | McMaster University, 1280 Main St W, Hamilton, Ontario, L8S 4L8, Canada
Date: 11 November 2024

This workshop covers the basic of using Power BI to create visualizations. We will look at data cleaning, creating impactful charts, and building interactive dashboards. Discover how to tell your data story effectively and make informed decisions. No previous experience needed.

Learning Outcomes: Construct basic visualizations using Power BI. Be able to critique the accessibility and design features of graphs.

Details: 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.

Facilitator Bio:

Subhanya (she/her) brings a background of research in data justice, science and technology studies, and environmental humanities. She is currently thinking through participatory data design which allow for visualizations that are empowering for the end user.

Introduction to Regular Expressions (Regex)
2024-11-11 00:00 - 23:59 | Nova Scotia
Date: 11 November 2024

Regular expressions are used to find “strings” in text documents. Strings are sequences of characters, and regular expressions excel at finding them. If you need to find anything beyond exact character matches with or without general case insensitivity, then it is time to consider leaving behind standard tools for finding text and embracing regular expressions. In particular, regular expressions excel at finding patterns of characters within text. It can be applied to many applications and programming languages.

Technical requirements: if you are on Windows, we recommend that you install Git for Windows (instructions here). Linux and macOS already have their own terminal.

These are introductory, beginner-level sessions. No prior experience or knowledge is required. The workshop leverages lessons from Library Carpentry, part of the larger Carpentries community that teaches researchers worldwide foundational coding and data science skills.

Visualizing Your Research Impact
2024-11-12 00:00 - 23:59 | McMaster University, 1280 Main St W, Hamilton, Ontario, L8S 4L8, Canada
Date: 12 November 2024

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. In this workshop we will explore best practices for generating simple, eye-catching graphics to communicate your impact from a variety of perspectives (from citation rates to collaboration networks to media attention).

Learning Outcomes: Attendees will learn how to: 1) Generate ready-made impact visualizations within a variety of bibliometric tools at McMaster. 2) Utilize raw bibliometric data to create custom visualizations within a variety of tools (Excel, VosViewer, Datawrapper). 3) Effectively incorporate research impact visualizations into reports, grant applications, and award nominations.

Details: 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.

Facilitator Bio:

Jack Young (he/him) is McMaster’s Research Impact Librarian, supporting the use of bibliometric data to enhance the reporting and strategic planning practices of the University’s academic departments, institutes, and researchers.

Introduction à la gestion des données de recherche et nettoyage de données avec OpenRefine [en ligne, DAT101]
2024-11-12 00:00 - 23:59 | Nova Scotia
12 novembre 2024

Dans cette formation, vous aurez un bref aperçu des concepts clés associés à une bonne gestion des données. Vous découvrirez aussi les bonnes pratiques de nettoyage de données à l’aide du logiciel OpenRefine. Le logiciel ouvert OpenRefine permet le nettoyage et la mise en forme de données dans une interface conviviale. Parmi ses avantages, on retrouve la possibilité de conserver le fichier original intact, de garder une trace des manipulations sur les données et d’annuler une modification facilement.

Inscription

Participant académique : 10$

Participant non-académique : 200$

Prérequis

Comprendre les concepts de fichiers et dossiers;

Connaitre les notions statistiques suivantes: moyenne, écart-type, distribution normale.

Plan de cours

Introduction à la gestion des données de recherche

Nettoyage de données avec OpenRefine

Filtres et “facetting”;

Transformations communes;

Identification et correction de mauvaises entrées et erreurs de frappe;

Utilisation du langage GREL;

Automatisation des modifications;

Réconciliation des données;

Bonification de données (API).

Formateur

Caroline Baril,Lina Harper, analyste en calcul informatique de pointe à Calcul Québec.

Langue du cours

Français

Prérequis techniques

Nous utiliserons Zoom comme plateforme. Comme il s’agit d’un atelier pratique, il est utile d’avoir deux écrans afin de pouvoir afficher l’écran de l’instructeur d’un côté et votre propre écran de l’autre.

Nous utiliserons aussi l’interface Jupyter Lab. Assurez-vous d’avoir un navigateur Web moderne tel que Google Chrome, Firefox, Edge ou Safari.

Contact

Pour toutes questions, écrivez-nous à formation@calculquebec.ca.

N﻿otes

La formation n’est pas enregistrée;

La formation pourrait être annulée advenant un nombre trop peu élevé d’inscriptions.
