UBC Library – Join us for a week of “all things data”

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Depositing your data just got easier

Complementing our existing UBC Dataverse data repository, UBC Library has become a member of Dryad, a nonprofit membership organization and provider of a well-established open-data repository that makes research data discoverable, freely reusable, and citable. As the first institutional member of Dryad in Canada, UBC Library joins a thriving global community of universities, research institutions, and academic libraries all working together to promote data publishing, curation, and preservation.

 

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Data aficionados, unite!

…for an empowering week of “all things data”

Love Data Week is an international celebration of all things data, scheduled annually in the week of Valentine’s day. Its aim is to engage community and increase awareness with events that highlight the prominence, value, and appropriate handling of data in our lives and research.

 

For Love Data Week 2022, libraries at SFU, UBC, UNBC, and UVic collaborated to offer a series of talks and workshops. All events will be hosted online via Zoom, and registration is open to everyone. We look forward to seeing you soon!

 

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Data Champions Pilot Project: funding call and request for reviewers

The Digital Research Alliance of Canada has launched calls for the Data Champions Pilot Project and the Merit Review Committee to enhance research data management (RDM) practices in Canada.

The pilot project will fund ‘Data Champions’ to develop activities at the local, regional, and/or national level that advance awareness, understanding, development, and adoption of research data management (RDM) tools, best practices, and resources in Canada. The overall aim is to promote a shift in data culture within the Canadian Digital Research Infrastructure (DRI) ecosystem by promoting sound RDM practices. The funding will provide up to $50,000 CAD per applicant to a diverse cohort of researchers who will take on the role of ‘Data Champions’.

Application deadline: Thursday, February 3, 2022, at 5 pm EST

 

Recordings of recent information sessions: https://alliancecan.ca/latest/data-champions-info-sessions

 

Full details and application form: https://alliancecan.ca/funding-opportunities/data-champions-pilot-project-call

Upcoming highlights

PyTorch Tensors: Python’s access road to Artificial Neural Networks

 

In this workshop, suitable for users of all levels, we will have a deep look at this data structure and go much beyond a basic introduction. In particular, we will:

  • see how tensors are stored in memory
  • look at the metadata which allows this efficient memory storage
  • cover the basics of working with tensors (indexing, vectorized operations, etc.)
  • move tensors to/from GPUs
  • convert tensors to/from NumPy ndarrays
  • see how tensors work in distributed frameworks
  • see how linear algebra can be done with PyTorch tensors

 

Everything you wanted to know (and more) about PyTorch tensors

Thursday, January 27 from 1 – 2:30 pm

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Find the citation-management software that’s right for you!

 

Citation-management software helps keep references organized, allows the removal of duplicates when importing references from a number of databases, and can help build bibliographies. In academic institutions, students, faculty, and researchers often ask questions regarding the latest software to manage their projects. This session will provide participants with basic knowledge of such tools as Zotero, Mendeley, and RefWorks.

 

Choosing the right citation-management tool for your research

Monday, January 31 from 4 – 5:30 pm

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Discover GitHub: where collaboration meets experimentation

 

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 and GitHub provide a platform that is increasingly used for collaboration in research and academic environments.

 

In this beginner workshop, participants will learn key concepts, create their own Git repository, and publish to GitHub. No previous experience is required.

 

Introduction to Git and GitHub

Monday, January 31 from 2 to 3:30 pm

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Get your data analysis up and running, with Excel

 

This session is designed for users who have some previous experience with Excel and covers a range of skills from basic to intermediate levels. We will introduce basic Excel objects, data types, and functions; show how to use formulas to describe sample data; and walk through the process of preparing a data visualization and a simple pivot table.

 

Working with data in Excel: part 1

Wednesday, February 2 from 10 am to 12 pm

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NVivo: qualitative data analysis, made easy

 

NVivo is a computer-assisted qualitative-data-analysis software. In this introductory workshop, you will learn about the benefits of working with NVivo, how to set it up, the types of sources you can use, and how to import them into NVivo. You will also learn how to do queries, nodes, and coding.

 

NVivo part 1: getting started in NVivo

Wednesday, February 2 from 4 – 6 pm

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Explore the power of programming and GIS for social-justice work

 

In this workshop, we’ll use a dataset that focuses on a very painful subject and may be triggering for some. We are going to look at Police Killings in Canada from 2000-2017. The data was obtained from Pivot Legal Society and initially collected by the CBC. We’re going to geocode the data, investigate racial disparities, and make interactive maps using a provided Jupyter Notebook. The goals of this workshop are to familiarize you with using Python for GIS and to show that programming and data analysis can be powerful tools for promoting social- and environmental-justice issues.

 

Geocoding and web-mapping with Python

Monday, February 7 from 1 – 3 pm

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Upcoming workshops

Citation Management

Using Mendeley for Citation Management

Monday, February 7 from 4 to 5:30 pm

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Data Analysis and Visualization

NVivo part 2: classification and datasets

Wednesday, February 9 from 4 to 6 pm

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Writing (Centre for Writing and Scholarly Communication)

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Find what you’re looking for to enhance your research skills by following the link below to browse all our offerings.

Book a one-on-one consultation

For subjects such as:

▸ NVivo, R

▸ GitHub, digital exhibits, Unix shell

▸ GIS, APIs, OSF

▸ Citation Management

and lots more

Workshop materials

Self-directed learning resources for:

▸ Digital Scholarship core skills–APIs, GitHub

▸ Data management, analysis, visualization

▸ Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
…just to name a few

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