Winter Wednesday Workshops: Text-mining with MALLET

Young Research Library, Research Commons (RC) Classroom Room 11630F, Young Research Library, Los Angeles

Wednesday, Mar 7, 2018 - 11:30am to 1:30pm Research Library (Charles E. Young) Research Commons (RC) Classroom Zoe Borovsky (Library) shows how to get started with this topic modeling tools, and how to make sense out of the results! Register

Winter Wednesday Workshops: Tools for Research in the Field/Archive

Young Research Library, Research Commons (RC) Classroom Room 11630F, Young Research Library, Los Angeles

Wednesday, Mar 7, 2018 - 2:00pm to 4:00pm Research Library (Charles E. Young) Research Commons (RC) Classroom Anthony Caldwell (Library/HumTech) shows you some nifty tips and tools, designed to prepare you to capture what you need while you’re in the field. Register

Winter Wednesday Workshops: Research Project Design

Young Research Library, Research Commons (RC) Classroom Room 11630F, Young Research Library, Los Angeles

Wednesday, Mar 14, 2018 - 11:30am to 1:30pm Research Library (Charles E. Young) Research Commons (RC) Classroom Zoe Borovsky (Library) works with you to design your own research workflow; We will start with an example research project using web-scraping (Import.io) on online site, geocoding with OpenRefine, and mapping/visualizing with Tableau. Register

Winter Wednesday Workshops: Digital Research StartUp Partnerships: DResSUP

Young Research Library, Research Commons (RC) Classroom Room 11630F, Young Research Library, Los Angeles

Wednesday, Mar 14, 2018 - 2:00pm to 4:00pm Research Library (Charles E. Young) Research Commons (RC) Classroom Zoe Borovsky and the DResSUP team provide information about UCLA Library's Summer 2018 partnership opportunities for UCLA graduate students. Register

Data Archive Event: Programming Pizza Party

Data Archive, 1120H Rolfe

Learning Python or R? Need dedicated practice time where you can ask questions? Like pizza? This 2-hour work session is designed to give people a chance to work on their Python/R projects alongside other beginners, and receive support from other users and our in-house experts. Bring your laptop, questions, and anything you are working on. Brought to you by the...

WordPress Workshop: Mastering Forms

Scholarly Innovation Lab, YRL 280 Charles E. Young Drive N, Los Angeles, CA

We invite you to join us on March 23rd at 12pm in the Scholarly Innovation Lab at the Young Research Library for a Wordpress workshop where you'll learn all about how to use forms. We'll discuss advanced techniques such as scheduling forms, limiting the number of entries, capturing signatures, and much more. Lunch will be...

Introduction to R

Young Research Library, Research Commons (RC) Classroom Room 11630F, Young Research Library, Los Angeles

Overview of R functionality. Taught by Christine Wells (Institute for Digital Research and Education)

Getting started with Git (and some GitHub)

Young Research Library, Research Commons (RC) Classroom Room 11630F, Young Research Library, Los Angeles

This two-hour workshop will introduce participants to Git, a command-line version control system for tracking changes in files, especially where multiple contributors are working in collaboration. We will also cover GitHub, a platform for hosting your Git-versioned files in the cloud so that you can share, collaborate on, and even publish your code, texts, and...

EPIC Inaugural Conference: Humanities Now: Transformative Teaching

Royce Hall 10745 Dickson Ct, Los Angeles, CA

  The EPIC Program is pleased to invite you to our Inaugural Conference, Humanities Now: Transformative Teaching on April 5-6, 2018. This conference encompasses many of our programmatic investments towards innovative teaching and learning in the humanities during EPIC’s five-year span. We are excited to bring to campus panelists working within the humanities or in interdisciplinary humanities...