Metadata Central: Kickoff workshop

Thanks to funding from the UC Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI), Metadata Central will engage a group of UC Humanities graduate students in metadata training and practice. From each participating UC campus, a graduate student will be selected to participate in the workshop. The introductory 2-day workshop at UCLA in January 2016 will cover the theory,...

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Digital Humanities Drop-In Workshops

Interested in digital text analysis? Have questions about mapping? Want to turn your data into a visualization but don’t know where to begin? HumTech will be hosting a series of drop-in consultations in 2015-2016. Bring your questions to the Charles E. Young Library Scholarly Innovation Lab on Thursdays from 2:00-4:00 and consult with Dave Shepard, HumTech’s lead developer, Miriam...

Mapping for Research Series: Lecture 1 – Intro to Maps: History and Beyond

The Spring 2016 Mapping for Research Series Get.Into.Spring with G.I.S and your research Spring is in the air and there is no better time to think about how mapping could impact your work. Join us this April and dive into the world of mapping. Explore the latest digital mapping technologies and make your research project...

Mapping for Research Series: Lecture 2 – Mapping Applied: Earth Day Lightning Talks

The Spring 2016 Mapping for Research Series Get.Into.Spring with G.I.S and your research Spring is in the air and there is no better time to think about how mapping could impact your work. Join us this April and dive into the world of mapping. Explore the latest digital mapping technologies and make your research project...

Mapping for Research Series: Lecture 3 – Got Visualization? Methods in mapping data

The Spring 2016 Mapping for Research Series Get.Into.Spring with G.I.S and your research Spring is in the air and there is no better time to think about how mapping could impact your work. Join us this April and dive into the world of mapping. Explore the latest digital mapping technologies and make your research project...

Increasing Openness and Reproducibility in Quantitative Research

There are many actions researchers can take to increase the openness and reproducibility of their work. Please join us for a workshop, hosted by UCLA Library and conducted by the Center for Open Science, to learn easy, practical steps researchers can take to increase the reproducibility of their work. The workshop will be hands-on. Using...

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Photogrammetry Workshop

Anthony Caldwell is offering a photogrammetry workshop (making use of Agisoft Photoscan) on May 5 from 11:00am-12:00pm in the Young Research Library, Scholarly Innovation Lab. This is the glassed-off area at the back of the research commons (the area with the green, orange and blue couches). Please let Anthony know if you plan to attend at acaldwell@humnet.ucla.edu.

Network Analysis with NodeXL

Join us for a presentation and workshop on NodeXL by Marc Smith, of the Social Media Research Foundation. NodeXL is a tool for network analysis that is both powerful and easy to use, and this is a great opportunity to learn from someone who's been involved in its development. Friday, May 6, Young Research Library...

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Text Data Workshop

Sponsored by the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics Overview Comprehensive collections of texts stretching back in time to the beginning of writing have become increasingly available in machine actionable form — from corpora of cuneiform writing, to the vast collections of medieval texts from Europe and Asia, to the immense “sea of the unread”...

Write to change the world: The Op/Ed Project

The OpEd Project is a social venture founded to drive more and better ideas into the world, from a wider range of voices. We are a community of journalists and thought leaders who actively share our skills, resources and connections across color, creed, class and gender lines. We train underrepresented experts to take thought leadership...