This workshop will introduce participants to web APIs with a focus on using REST APIs for accessing data. Learn about common HTTP methods and responses used in REST APIs and how to understand and extract information from data in JSON format. This workshop will include a tutorial on some of OpenRefine's API functions, including fetching […]
The Community Information Tool (CIT) is a central access point for data to help planners, policy makers, economic developers, researchers, and academics thrive in the digital economy. The CIT compiles over 40 data sets offering insights into regions across B.C. with integrated socio-economic, connectivity, and community assets data. The CIT assists users to better understand […]
Engagement with the individuals interested in, impacted by, and responsible for implementing the findings of research has been a methodological paradigm shift in the health research sector in the last decade and is gaining popularity in other disciplines. Embedding community, stakeholders, patients, clients, or end-users in research is an ethical approach which leads to results […]
This workshop provides participants with a framework to recognize and tidy messy data and some practical skills in Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Power Query to enable data collection in a tidy format, so that analysis is possible. Hands-on participants must have MS Excel (2019+) with Power Query. Cairo Sanders is UVic Libraries Data Analyst supporting […]
This week on March 27th, 2026 from 7-9pm, SFU Physics and the UBC Dept. of Physics & Astronomy invite you to a free public evening with Nobel Prize-winning physicist Donna Strickland at SFU Harbour Centre! Want to meet a Canadian Nobel Laureate in Physics? A self-described lover of lasers, Donna will talk about her prize […]
The Institute for Global Health at BC Children's Hospital and BC Women's Hospital + Health Centre is thrilled to announce the 8th Annual Global Health Conference (GHC26)! GHC26 is an annual event bringing together a community of students, trainees, clinicians, researchers, and faculty from across health professions and disciplines to share knowledge. When: Thursday, April […]
Curiosity moves us. Determination gets us there—because progress doesn’t happen on its own. See how we push forward.
