Automation and scripting in bash for absolute beginners

Walter C. Koerner Library 1958 Main Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

This in-person workshop will demystify the command line and get you started using Bash and Bash scripting. Warning: You might find that working in the command line is actually really […]

Free

Creating Digital Exhibits: A Survey of Tools

Online/Virtual Event

This workshop will cover an assortment of digital exhibit and storytelling tools such as Omeka, Scalar, static site generators (CollectionBuilder and Wax), and narrative tools such as Timeline.js and Storymaps […]

Free

Building a Static Website with GitHub Pages

Online/Virtual Event

This workshop will introduce you to static web pages and give you the skills to create and publish static web pages using Github Pages (https://pages.github.com/). We will walk through the […]

Free

What format to choose to save your data

Walter C. Koerner Library 1958 Main Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Which file format should you use when saving your research dataset? Besides the obvious question of how to encode your data structures in a file, you might also want to […]

Free

GIS Day 2022

Online/Virtual Event

GIS Day is an annual, worldwide celebration of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology and community. Organized by Simon Fraser University Library, University of British Columbia Library, and UBC Faculty of […]

Free

Women in the Workplace

On November 18th at 5pm, UBC WEC will be hosting a free, online seminar “Women in the Workplace”. We will be hosting three women in three different professions (non-profit founder, […]

Free

Advanced skills in R

Online/Virtual Event

Advanced skills in R will focus on tools (mostly in base R) for performing complex and/or highly-customized operations in R. The main skills taught in this workshop will include looping, […]

Free

Authoring scientific documents with Markdown and Quarto

Walter C. Koerner Library 1958 Main Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

This in-person workshop will show you how to easily create beautiful scientific documents (html, pdf, websites, books…)—complete with formatted text, dynamic code, and figures. We will first cover the simple […]

Free