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Best Practices for Managing Data in your Research (Winter)

Feb 3, 2027

TIFU (Today I F'ed Up) by losing a ton of data for my research - Have you ever seen a description like this on Reddit? Are your desktop and downloads folders a jumble of files named Data-finalFINAL-USETHISONE?

Finding, Accessing, and Adding GIS Data to Your Project

Feb 9, 2027

10:30 am TO 11:30 am

Looking for data to support your digital mapping project? Geospatial data contains location-based information that can be analyzed and visualized using Geographic Information Systems (GIS).

Introduction to Bibliometric Analysis

Feb 10, 2027

1:00 pm TO 2:00 pm

Bibliometric analysis is a powerful research method that uses publication and citation data to examine the impact, structure, and evolution of scholarly literature.

Local Applications in Generative AI on your Laptop

Feb 16, 2027

1:00 pm TO 2:30 pm

Large Language Models (LLMs) are transforming how we interact with technology, but how do they actually work, and what does it take to run one yourself?

Personal Health Information and Sensitive Data: Practical Examples of Storage, Security, Data Sharing, and Beyond

Feb 17, 2027

10:00 am TO 11:00 am

Managing health research data is a daunting task.

Survival Analysis with R

Feb 19, 2027

4:00 pm TO 5:30 pm

Many research questions in health, clinical, and epidemiological research focus not only on whether an event occurs, but also on when it occurs.

Tools for Digital Storytelling

Feb 24, 2027

11:00 am TO 12:30 pm

Do you have a story idea but are not sure where to begin? Are you curious about how digital tools can support your creative process?

Creating and Sharing Maps Using ArcGIS Online

Mar 9, 2027

10:30 am TO 11:30 am

Want to bring your data to life through interactive maps?

Abducted by Aliens? 🛸 Building Sustainable File, Folder & Documentation Workflows

Mar 10, 2027

11:00 am TO 12:00 pm

You arrive at work to see your project's primary investigator/research coordinator/key graduate student disappearing into a UFO's buzzing blue beam; with all their project knowledge and disconnected laptop gone forever…or at least til the aliens r

Machine Learning with R: Logistic Regression

Mar 16, 2027

4:00 pm TO 5:30 pm

Interested in learning how logistic regression can be used to predict outcomes and uncover relationships in data?

Data Feminism: Power, Inequality, and Social Change

Mar 17, 2027

4:00 pm TO 5:00 pm

Who gets counted, who gets excluded, and who benefits from the stories data tells?

An Agentic Scholarly Workflow

Mar 18, 2027

2:30 pm TO 4:00 pm

Gone are the days where Large Language Models were simply confident, but supremely untrustworthy, chat bots that provided you with perfectly title articles by famous scholars that you then found out did not actually exist.