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 …
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 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 …
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 …
In this online synchronous workshop, we are going to learn some basic commands in Pandas, an expansive Python library for working with tabular data like CSV files. You can think of Pandas as a more powerful version of Excel that operates within the Python environment, where you can wrangle, clean, analyze, and visualize data. Knowing …
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 …
Have you ever wanted to create a professional-looking webpage, but found yourself limited by your CSS skills? Learn how to make use of Bootstrap, a free and open-source CSS framework, to quickly and easily make your webpage look like it was created by a pro! This workshop is the second in the series of our …
Python Intensive Workshops: An Exploration of Research Tools for Beginners Join GCDI for our fourth 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 …
This one-hour workshop is aimed at introducing you to the basic concepts of Geographic Information System (GIS). We will understand the main types of spatial formats in which we can describe our data, the characteristics of each format and how to combine them to efficiently convey information in a map format. The features available to …
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 …
