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Thursday
19
Sep

Data Bites – Best Practices for Creating a README file

Thursday, September 19, 2024 - 12:30 PM
Do you struggle with organizing your research materials? This 30-minute workshop highlights practical techniques for creating a README file. A README is a guide to your data and assists other researchers to understand your dataset, its contents,...
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Thursday
19
Sep

Beginner R Part 1

Thursday, September 19, 2024 - 1:00 PM
If you have never opened R, do not know what R packages are, do not know how to read files into R, this workshop is for you! At the end of this workshop you will:...
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Thursday
26
Sep

Data Bites – Best Practices for Organizing File Directories

Thursday, September 26, 2024 - 12:30 PM
Do you struggle with organizing your research materials? This 30-minute workshop highlights practical techniques for directory structure conventions and directory names that will help organize your files in a way that is meaningful to both you and...
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Thursday
26
Sep

Beginner R Part 2

Thursday, September 26, 2024 - 1:00 PM
If you have opened RStudio before, know what packages are and know how to read files into R, but not much beyond that, this workshop is for you! If your expertise is not at this level yet, please register for Beginner R Part 1 first (September 19, 1-2...
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Thursday
03
Oct

Data Bites – Introduction to depositing datasets in Borealis

Thursday, October 3, 2024 - 12:30 PM
Storing your data in a repository like Borealis makes it easy for other researchers, publishers, and collaborators to find, use, and cite your data. It supports the Open Science movement goals of transparency, accessibility, and collaboration, and can...
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Thursday
03
Oct

Introduction to the tidyverse R package

Thursday, October 3, 2024 - 1:00 PM
This workshop presents some of the major packages in the tidyverse package in R. At the end of this workshop, you will be able to:...
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Thursday
10
Oct

Data Bites – Best Practices for File Naming

Thursday, October 10, 2024 - 12:30 PM
Do you struggle with organizing your research materials? This 30-minute workshop highlights practical techniques for file naming. Join us to develop a naming convention based on elements that are important to your work....
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Thursday
17
Oct

Data Bites – Best Practices for File Formatting

Thursday, October 17, 2024 - 12:30 PM
Do you struggle with organizing your research materials? This 30-minute workshop highlights practical techniques for file formatting. Join us to learn more about data formats, data access, and data preservation....
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Thursday
24
Oct

Data visualization with ggplot2

Thursday, October 24, 2024 - 10:00 AM
This workshop will introduce concepts and tools for visualizing data in R, with emphasis on the ggplot2 package. Participants are expected to be familiar with R and the RStudio environment....
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Thursday
24
Oct

Data Bites – Best Practices for Creating a README file

Thursday, October 24, 2024 - 12:30 PM
Do you struggle with organizing your research materials? This 30-minute workshop highlights practical techniques for creating a README file. A README is a guide to your data and assists other researchers to understand your dataset, its contents,...
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Thursday
24
Oct

Map Production with QGIS

Thursday, October 24, 2024 - 1:00 PM
This is an introductory workshop focusing on the fundamental concepts and skills needed to begin using QGIS to explore and analyze spatial data. It is also meant to help you understand how to get started composing a map document for print production. ...
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Thursday
31
Oct

Using R Markdown

Thursday, October 31, 2024 - 10:00 AM
R Markdown turns your analyses into high-quality, elegantly formatted and fully reproducible output by putting together narrative text, code and plots. This workshop will walk you through the creation and usage of R Markdown. Participants are expected...
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Thursday
31
Oct

Data Bites – Best Practices for Organizing File Directories

Thursday, October 31, 2024 - 12:30 PM
Do you struggle with organizing your research materials? This 30-minute workshop highlights practical techniques for directory structure conventions and directory names that will help organize your files in a way that is meaningful to both you and...
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Thursday
31
Oct

Tools and Workflows in QGIS

Thursday, October 31, 2024 - 1:00 PM
This intermediate-level workshop is focused on common tools and workflows in QGIS. By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to set up a QGIS project, find and load data onto a basemap, edit vector data from inside the GIS interface, perf...
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Thursday
07
Nov

Data Bites – Introduction to Data Management Plans (DMPs)

Thursday, November 7, 2024 - 12:30 PM
Aimed at grad students and faculty researchers, this Data Bites workshop reviews the key components of a data management plan (DMP) and offers guidance on using the DMP Assistant, a bilingual tool for preparing data management plans in Canada....
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Thursday
14
Nov

Data Bites – Best Practices for File Naming

Thursday, November 14, 2024 - 12:30 PM
Do you struggle with organizing your research materials? This 30-minute workshop highlights practical techniques for file naming. Join us to develop a naming convention based on elements that are important to your work....
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Thursday
14
Nov

Loops and conditional statements in R

Thursday, November 14, 2024 - 1:00 PM
This workshop will focus on tools (mostly in base R) to perform customized operations in R including looping, nested looping and conditional statements. This workshop is intended to expand the capabilities of R users with moderate experience of the...
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Thursday
21
Nov

Data Bites – Best Practices for File Formatting

Thursday, November 21, 2024 - 12:30 PM
Do you struggle with organizing your research materials? This 30-minute workshop highlights practical techniques for file formatting. Join us to learn more about data formats, data access, and data preservation....
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Thursday
28
Nov

Data Bites – Best Practices for Creating a README file

Thursday, November 28, 2024 - 12:30 PM
Do you struggle with organizing your research materials? This 30-minute workshop highlights practical techniques for creating a README file. A README is a guide to your data and assists other researchers to understand your dataset, its contents,...
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Thursday
28
Nov

Introduction to Web Mapping with Leaflet

Thursday, November 28, 2024 - 1:00 PM
This workshop will first give an introduction to web maps, including the differences between digital maps and web maps, their structure, and how they work. The second part of the workshop will be a short hands-on session where we will create our own...
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 Services

Title Description Theme
One-to-One Assistance

Consultations are available for Citation Management, NVivo, SPSS, R, Digital Scholarship, and GIS. Appointments are available in 30-minute or 1-hour increments. To request an appointment, visit this page and book your chosen consultation.

 Academic, Research

 Resources

Title Description Theme
Bookable Project Rooms: Koerner Library Research Commons

The Research Commons’ in Koerner Library (1958 Main Mall) has several project rooms (Rm 454, 456, 495, 496, 499, 553, and 555) bookable through the Library Room Booking System, to study and work in a private space.  Use of rooms is restricted to UBC graduate students and faculty, and your UBC card is needed for entry.  Each Project Room includes whiteboards, touchscreen control

Academic
Open Education Resources, Workshop Materials

Check out this page for handouts and materials from sessions on citation management, Data Analysis and Management, Literature Reviews, NVivo, R, GitHub, GIS, Dissertation/Thesis Formatting, Copyright, and more.

 Academic, Research, Writing and Communication
 
 
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