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Understanding elder care: what you need to know to care for an elderly loved one

Online/Virtual Event

Date: Monday, July 31, 2023  Time: 2 – 3 pm PST  Audience: All faculty and staff at UBC Vancouver and Okanagan  Location: Zoom.  About this workshop:  With an aging population, elder care responsibilities are now becoming a reality for an increasing number of Canadians. Caregiving is a multifaceted role, and quite different from any other; many individuals may find it very challenging to investigate […]

Data Bites – Introduction to depositing datasets in Borealis

Online/Virtual Event

Do you struggle with depositing research data for publications? This 45-minute workshop covers practical techniques and steps for depositing and describing research data in Borealis, the Canadian Dataverse Repository, a bilingual, multi-disciplinary, secure, Canadian research data repository, supported by academic libraries and research institutions across Canada,

Free

Introduction to R and RStudio (beginner)

Online/Virtual Event

R is popular for many applications including data visualization and statistical analysis. This beginner orientation is suitable for people with little or no R experience. It will help you decide whether R is the right tool for your data analysis needs and introduce R terminology using the RStudio interface. The workshop is one hour, followed […]

Free

Financial Planning: Budgeting and the Student Service Centre – for Indigenous students

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Nothing beats a plan. With solid financial understanding, you can concentrate on what’s important – which is not worrying about money! Being able to budget confidently and learning the ins and outs of the UBC SSC, you should feel more confident about the financial aspects of your time at UBC. Open to all UBC Indigenous […]

Student Feedback Session for Video Needs

Online/Virtual Event

The Enterprise Video Platform (EVP) project is hosting an online feedback session for UBC students, to explore their needs and preferences for a UBC video platform. This session will let students share their desires for learning with educational videos and classroom recordings. The feedback session will focus on the features and functionalities that support learning […]

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Demystifying Scholarships | Webinar | Aug 9 (12:00 – 1:00 PM PDT)

UBC Vancouver Campus Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Like most students, you are interested in scholarships and awards to offset the cost of university. But what if you can’t tell the difference between a scholarship from a bursary, or an automatically considered award from an application-based award? No problem! Join Enrolment Advisors at this webinar to demystify the concept of scholarships. Scholarships are […]

Introduction to Python for Data Analysis (Beginner)

Online/Virtual Event

This workshop is an orientation intended for beginners who have little to no experience with Python and using Python for data analysis. The basic structures of the Python programming language will be reviewed before looking at its use for data analysis. The workshop is one hour, followed by an optional 30 minute practice period to […]

Free

Introduction to Voyant Tools

Online/Virtual Event

We will introduce Voyant, a free suite of visual tools for text analysis. Participants will get hands on experience applying common tools within Voyant to a corpus. No prior experience with text analysis is required. This workshop is part of the Digital Toolkit workshop series presented by the UBC Library Research Commons. Location Details Location: *ONLINE* If […]

Free
Event Series UBC Video Needs Assessment Open Feedback Session

UBC Video Needs Assessment Open Feedback Session

Online/Virtual Event

The Enterprise Video Platform (EVP) project is hosting online feedback sessions to gather feedback about what we require in a single video system that will cater to the needs of teaching, learning, and staff support activities at our university. This is a drop-in Zoom session where any UBC faculty, student, or staff member can join […]

Introduction to Machine Learning: Neural Networks

Online/Virtual Event

In this workshop, participants will dive into the fascinating world of neural networks. Neural networks have emerged as powerful models for solving complex and nonlinear problems. This workshop begins with an introduction to neural networks, covering their architecture, activation functions, and training algorithms. Participants will gain insights into how neural networks can effectively capture and […]

Free

Annotating Audio Visual materials with AudiAnnotate

Online/Virtual Event

This workshop will provide an introduction to AudiAnnotate, a free and open source tool for publishing and sharing annotations on audiovisual files. AudiAnnotate is built using minimal computing principles and the finished annotation files are all designed for longevity, a core challenge in the publication of digital scholarship outputs. This tool can be run locally […]

Free