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Join the Library Sustainability Committee as we explore archival acquisitions relating to sustainability. Archives and Rare Book Librarian Myron Groover will lead the session, featuring a special focus on John Evelyn's Sylva, or a...
DASH, in...
Session 2: Tools & resources for data visualization
In this introductory workshop, learn about research data management best practices and how investing a small amount of time in organizing your data now can save you a lot of time and prevent future headaches. We will go over best...
DASH, in collaboration with the Engineering Grad Society (EGS), is hosting an intermediate-level workshop that will focus on various flow control Statements and Functions used in Python programming. This workshop will also cover error...
Ever wonder what cryptography is? Curious how your information is secured online? Want to keep your information safe, even in the face of a supercomputer? Attend this workshop to learn more. No prior experience is...
An introduction to Zotero, Mendeley and EndNote. Learn what Citation Management Software is and why you should use it Event will be hosted via Zoom and a link will be sent out to participants.
Join the Library Sustainability Committee as we explore archival acquisitions relating to sustainability. Archives Processing Librarian Chris Long will lead the session, featuring a special focus on the literary work of beloved Canadian...
This roundtable brings together researchers from a variety of disciplines to assess the embedded power structures of social media research and the frameworks for assessing such research as ‘ethical’. This workshop...
The Library Sustainability Committee is honoured to be joined by restoration biologist Stefan Weber, a PhD candidate at McMaster. In this event, Stefan will discuss: the importance of native species...
Research Driven Art Caroline Sinders is an artist and researcher whose work explores the intersections of critical design, trauma, data, and AI as art. This talk will explore the methodology she’s created to...
Feminist Data Set Workshop Can data collection itself function as an artwork? Can it act as a form of protest? In this workshop, participants will collect feminist data beginning with an introduction to machine...
