Fall Workshops
We are excited to announce a few of our upcoming open-science-related workshops for this Fall and invite anyone and everyone to check out and sign up for one or more of them!
The workshops we currently have on the books include:
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Introduction to Research Data Management and Data Management Plans—Sign up here!
Who: Led by Emily Bongiovanni
When: Tuesday, September 20, 2022; 10:00am - 11:00am (in-person)
Where: Sorrells Library, Den
This workshop will introduce the FAIR data principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable) and research data management plans.
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Cleaning Untidy Data with OpenRefine—Sign up here!
Who: Led by Sarah Young
When: Thursday, October 13, 2022; 12:00pm - 2:00pm (in-person)
Where: Sorrells Library, Den
This workshop will introduce OpenRefine and its plethora of data preprocessing and analysis features. Attendees will learn how to quickly and easily transform data, split and merge columns, and remove whitespace, among many other common data cleaning tasks. OpenRefine, also makes it straightforward to create JSON scripts for repeating a series of tasks across multiple datasets.
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Introduction to Academic Publishing Process and Models—Sign up here!
Who: Led by Emily Bongiovanni
When: Thursday, November 10, 2022; 12:00pm - 1:00pm (in-person)
Where: Sorrells Library, Den
This workshop will introduce academic publishing models, including Open Access models, and the publishing process of a scholarly work, including the peer-review process.
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Creating Websites and Portfolios with GitPages—Sign up here!
Who: Led by Sarah Young and Chasz Griego
When: Thursday, December 1, 2022; 12:00pm - 1:30pm (in-person)
Where: Sorrells Library, Den
In this workshop, we'll introduce you to GitPages, a free platform for hosting simple websites and showcasing your work to potential employers and clients. We'll provide hands-on experience with Git and Github to set up a GitPage website using Jekyll, a website generator that uses markdown or HTML and offers several templates to choose from to create a static website. No prior knowledge or experience with Git, GitHub, or GitPages is required. Please bring a laptop with you to the workshop.
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Introduction to R Part 1—Sign up here!
Who: Led by Sarah Young
When: Tuesday, Nov 22, 2022; 10:00am - 11:30am (in-person)
Where: Sorrells Library, Den
This is Part 1 of the 2-part introductory workshop that aims to teach basic concepts, skills, and tools for working with data in R so that you can get more done in less time, and apply concepts of reproducibility to your research. This is an introduction to R designed for participants with no programming experience. Part 1 of the workshop covers basic information about R syntax and the RStudio interface, including installing packages and working with vectors.
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Introduction to R Part 2—Sign up here!
Who: Led by Sarah Young
When: Tuesday, November 29, 2022; 10:00am - 11:30am (in-person)
Where: Sorrells Library, Den
This is Part 2 of the 2-part introductory workshop that aims to teach basic concepts, skills, and tools for working with data in R so that you can get more done in less time, and apply concepts of reproducibility to your research. This is an introduction to R designed for participants with no programming experience. Part 2 will cover importing CSV files, working with dataframes, how to deal with factors, how to add/remove rows and columns using the popular dplyr package, and how to calculate summary statistics from a data frame.
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