UCalgary community invited to register for January Block Week Workshops

During the Winter Block Week (January 3 – 6), we will offer the following workshops for UCalgary faculty, staff, students and researchers. 

Data Visualization and Tools
This workshop will provide an introduction to data visualization through, including making charts through data encoding (how to transform data into imagery), and an overview of a variety of data visualization tools and software freely available to students.
Tuesday, Jan 3 2023, TFDL 440A
10:30am – 12:00pm
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Introduction to R Syntax, part 1
Learn to read and write R scripts to do computations, data manipulation and simple analysis. Get hands-on coding experience via a web application (no software installation is required to attend!) Participants will learn the rules of the R syntax to better understand an introductory book or internet recipes for solutions. Great for undergraduate and graduate students interested in learning R with no programming experience. 
Tuesday, Jan 3, 2023, ONLINE
12:00pm – 1:30pm
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Data Visualization with Tableau
This session will focus on fundamentals of importing data and using Tableau to create visualization. Tableau is a great tool that supports a variety of data formats and allows fast exploration to find the visualization most suited to the data. Bonus: it’s free for students!
Tuesday, Jan 3, 2023, TFDL 440A
2:00pm – 3:30pm
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Basic Survey Building and Distribution Using Qualtrics
This session focuses on how to use Qualtrics software to create and distribute surveys and questionnaires. Participants wishing to explore Qualtrics prior to the session can create a free account. 
Tuesday, Jan 3, 2023, ONLINE
3pm – 4pm
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Research Data Management 101
This session offers an overview of research data management and how to implement best practices in your own project. We will focus particularly on how to use the DMP Assistant tool to create a data management plan.
Wednesday, Jan 4, 2023, ONLINE
9:00am – 10:30am
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LaTeX and Overleaf
Come learn the basics of how to use an open source typesetting program (LaTeX) to produce professional documents and PDF files (for theses and papers) as well as an online interface (Overleaf) for creating and collaborating on LaTeX documents.
Wednesday, Jan 4, 2023, ONLINE
10am – 11am
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How to Deposit Your Research in Prism (SPOTS AVAILABLE!)
Learn about the benefits and limitations of PRISM Data, how to prepare your data for sharing, and depositing datasets for longer term access. Attendees are welcome to bring along their datasets should they wish to create an account and start depositing data. 
Wednesday, Jan 4, 2023, ONLINE
11:00am – 11:45am
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University of Calgary Journal Hosting Service (SPOTS AVAILABLE!)
The workshop will guide attendees through the significant steps of starting a journal using the OJS platform, demonstrate the editorial aspects of an academic journal and highlight supports for new and existing journals provided by LCR’s Journal Hosting Support Team. 
Wednesday, Jan 4, 2023, ONLINE
1pm – 2pm
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Recording Podcasts and Voice-Over
Learn the basics of recording voices for podcasts and voice over in this hands-on workshop from someone who has produced a radio show and worked as a professional voice over actor. The workshop will cover script writing, basic editing, vocal technique, and how to use the library's A/V Edit Suites.
Wednesday, Jan 4, 2023, TFDL 340
2pm – 3pm
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Digital File Management
Managing digital files and research materials is critical for keeping yourself organized, collaborating with colleagues, and communicating with mentors. We will explore an exercise to create a digital file management system that addresses your needs, and a README file to document a hierarchical organizational system for folders, and introduce tools for batch naming/renaming files and folders, versioning.
Wednesday, Jan 4, 2023, ONLINE
2:30pm – 3:30pm
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Using NVivo 12 for Windows: Introduction to Qualitative Data Analysis
NVivo is a qualitative analysis package for text-based (surveys, focus groups, interviews) or multimedia information. We will discuss creating a project, importing documents, creating and coding to themes, and basic text analysis and visualization. No previous experience with NVivo is necessary. Experience with qualitative research methodologies will help, but is not necessary. 
Thursday, Jan 5, 2023, ONLINE
10:30am – 12pm
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Introduction to R Syntax, part 2
In part 2, students learn the remaining data structures to model and manipulate data: factors, matrices, arrays, lists, and the data frame. This session will cover the basics of subsetting and ordering for data structures as well as user functions and basic control flow.
Thursday, Jan 5, 2023, ONLINE
12pm – 1:30pm
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Using NVivo 12 for Windows: Literature Reviews
NVivo is a qualitative analysis package designed for analysis of text-based information. As such, it can be easily used to help with your literature reviews. We’ll discuss creating a project, importing documents, thematic coding, classifications, text analysis and visualization. Participants should have a basic understanding of NVivo.
Thursday, Jan 5, 2023, ONLINE
1pm – 2pm
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Introduction to Personal Digital Archiving (SPOTS AVAILABLE!)
This session will provide an overview of best practices for increased longevity of your personal digital archives such as digital photographs, web content, AV materials, research and creative projects. 
Thursday, Jan 5, 2023, ONLINE
2pm – 3pm
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Qualitative Data Visualization
Data visualization helps people transform data into visuals that make it easier to identify patterns, trends, and outliers.  But most data visualization sessions focus on working with numeric, quantitative data; this session takes the opposite approach and is all about qualitative data.   We will cover a variety of data visualization techniques for working with text, networks, hierarchies, and other non-numeric datasets. 
Thursday, Jan 5, 2023, ONLINE
3pm – 4pm
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*NEW* Addressing Research Challenges with SAGE Research Methods (SPOTS AVAILABLE!)
Research presents challenges, both to those engaged in research as well as to those teaching, advising, or instructing others on the research process. This session will provide an overview of SAGE Research Methods, a resource that provides research support by guiding users through every step of the research process. As the ultimate methods library, SAGE Research Methods is designed to help learn, teach, and explore methods across the social sciences and STM disciplines. We will pay particular attention to the Research Tools in the platform: the Methods Map, Project Planner, Which Stats Test, and Reading Lists – and will explore how the tools, content, and platform features can help users address and overcome research challenges.  
Thursday, Jan 5, 2023, ONLINE
4pm – 5pm
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Foundations in Open Educational Resources (SPOTS AVAILABLE!)
New format! A ONE-HOUR workshop to learn what OERs are, how to integrate them into teaching and learning and how to access and assess OER resources tools. 
Friday, Jan 6, 2023, ONLINE
11am – 12pm
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PRISM: University of Calgary digital repository (SPOTS AVAILABLE!)
In this session we will demonstrate how PRISM, a digital archive of the university’s articles, books, theses and scholarly publications, can help with growing open scholarship priorities. At the end of the session, participants will have the tools they need to make research results openly accessible. 
Friday, Jan 6, 2023, ONLINE
1pm – 2pm
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Open Education Alberta Pressbooks Publishing Service (SPOTS AVAILABLE!)
Open Education Alberta Pressbooks is a grassroots collaborative, no-fee publishing service for open educational resources (OER). Educators from the University of Calgary can use this service to develop and host OER in a Pressbooks platform. 
Friday, Jan 6, 2023, ONLINE
2pm – 3pm
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