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, provenance, licensing and how to interact with it. Location: ONLINE (A Zoom link will be sent to registrants 3 […]
Info-session for domestic Black undergraduate students about the CIHR/SSHRC/NSERC USRAs USRA = Undergraduate Research Awards Registration link: tinyurl.com/usrabkstd Please Note: Students attending will need approved access for the Black Student Space https://students.ubc.ca/about-student-services/black-student-space Undergraduate Research Awards are opportunities for undergraduate students to consider graduate studies and/or a research career by providing research work experience that complements […]
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. By the end of this workshop, attendees will have a basic understanding of […]
Disciplines Over Time: Making, Keeping and Breaking the Boundaries of Knowledge Co-hosted with the UBC Emeritus College Patricia Vertinsky, Member of Common Room at Green College and Professor Emerita of […]
Populist politicians and conspiracy cults enchant their followers through fear – of migrants, End Times, or an imagined nefarious World Government – and through promises of a backward-looking and insular social solidarity – of white Christian America or (Europe), Hindu India, et al. This talk presents a “political ecology of the imagination” that can help […]
This workshop focuses on Large Language Models (LLM) to provide participants with a foundational understanding of LLM, their working, and how to fine-tune a pre-trained LLM for your own data. In this workshop, we will use cloud-based platforms, so you don’t need to have Python installed. Please make sure that you have a Google Colaboratory […]
