Put it on the Web: An Intro to HTML and CSS

HTML and CSS are languages that form the structure and styling of a website. In this workshop, intended for beginning coders, you will learn the basic syntax of both languages and practice using a text editor (Visual Studio Code) to create a mock website page. No previous experience is required! This workshop will act as …

Event Series Introduction to Python [Fall Python Series]

Introduction to Python [Fall Python Series]

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Fall Python Series: An Exploration of Research Tools for Beginners   Join GCDI for a fall Python series exploring various research methods and tools. We will begin by introducing the programming language Python and then continue by practicing and building out core skills through various practical applications, including text analysis with NLTK, data analysis with …

R You Ready? Beginning Your Research with R

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R is a versatile programming language, best suited for a variety of data science needs. Whether you need to run some statistical analyses, create publication-worthy data visualizations, or even publish a website, R has a multitude of tools to help you get what you need done. This workshop is intended to get interested users up …

Discover the Facts: Data Analysis in R

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In this hands-on workshop, we will learn the basics of data exploration, analysis and visualization with R. We will introduce and work with the Tidyverse series of library and R Studio, tools that have become the standard for data analysis with R. Some introductory R knowledge is necessary, since we will not have time to …

What is WordPress? Create Your First Website on the Commons

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Websites have become a critical tool in academic scholarship. From a personal website or the site for an academic event to a public facing project such as a digital archive, websites are a tool we all can explore. Being able to create websites or participating as an author on an existing one is, therefore, an …

Text Analysis with NLTK [Fall Python Series]

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Python Intensive Workshops: An Exploration of Research Tools for Beginners Join GCDI for our second workshop in the Python Intensive Workshops: An Exploration of Research Tools for Beginners and learn how to extract text from web pages using Python. Knowledge from this workshop will be strengthened in Python User Group (PUG) sessions, which run on …

Git It: Intro to Git and GitHub for Absolute Beginners

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Git and GitHub are powerful tools for collaborative and individual projects. Git is a version control software that aids with tracking changes made to a set of files over time. GitHub is a web-based platform for storing, sharing, and collaborating on project files online. This session begins with a conceptual overview of both tools, including …

Spreadsheets aren’t Boring! Spreadsheets for Beginners

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Microsoft Excel/Google Spreadsheets is a powerful tool used by researchers to quickly summarize, clean, and make sense of data. Learning this tool could also build a foundation to learn other data analysis tools like R or Python. No experience necessary, suitable to researchers completely new to data analysis. The workshop will demonstrate how one could …