Digital Research Consortium at UCLA

Veterans Day
2017-11-11 00:00 (America/Los_Angeles)

Veterans Day (observed)
2017-11-10 00:00 (America/Los_Angeles)

Election Day
2017-11-07 00:00 (America/Los_Angeles)

Daylight Saving Time End
2017-11-05 00:00 (America/Los_Angeles)

Halloween
2017-10-31 00:00 (America/Los_Angeles)

Software Carpentry Workshop (R)
2017-10-16 09:00 - 2017-10-17 17:00 UTC | Young Research Library
Software Carpentry aims to help researchers get their work done in less time and with less pain by teaching them basic research computing skills. This hands-on workshop will cover basic concepts and tools, including program design, version control, data management, and task automation. Participants will be encouraged to help one another and to apply what they have learned to their own research problems.
For more information on what we teach and why, please see our paper “Best Practices for Scientific Computing“.
Who: The course is aimed at graduate students and other researchers. You don’t need to have any previous knowledge of the tools that will be presented at the workshop.
Where: Young Research Library. Get directions with OpenStreetMap or Google Maps.
When: Oct 16-17, 2017. Add to your Google Calendar.
Requirements: Participants must bring a laptop with a Mac, Linux, or Windows operating system (not a tablet, Chromebook, etc.) that they have administrative privileges on. They should have a few specific software packages installed (see here). They are also required to abide by Software Carpentry’s Code of Conduct.
Accessibility: We are committed to making this workshop accessible to everybody. The workshop organisers have checked that:

The room is wheelchair / scooter accessible.
Accessible restrooms are available.

Materials will be provided in advance of the workshop and large-print handouts are available if needed by notifying the organizers in advance. If we can help making learning easier for you (e.g. sign-language interpreters, lactation facilities) please get in touch (using contact details below) and we will attempt to provide them.
Contact: Please email lib_archivehelp@em.ucla.edu for more information.

Introduction to SPSS
2017-10-16 09:00 - 12:00 UTC | CLICC Classroom B, 3rd Floor Powell Library, Election Walk, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
SPSS is a very easy-to-use statistical package that runs on Windows, Macintosh and UNIX platforms. This class is designed for people who are just starting to use SPSS. The students in the class will have a hands-on experience using SPSS for doing statistics, graphics, and data management. The class notes are the scripts for the class. The class notes can be found at https://stats.idre.ucla.edu/spss/seminars/notes/.
RSVP at https://idre.ucla.edu/calendar-event/introduction-to-spss-4

Introduction to SAS
2017-10-09 09:00 - 12:00 UTC | CLICC Classroom B, 3rd Floor Powell Library, Election Walk, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
SAS is a powerful statistical package that runs on many platforms, including Windows and Unix. This class is designed for people who are just getting started using SAS. The students in the class will have a hands-on experience using SAS for statistics, graphics, and data management. The class notes can be found at https://stats.idre.ucla.edu/sas/seminars/notes/.
RSVP at https://idre.ucla.edu/calendar-event/introduction-to-spss-3

Columbus Day
2017-10-09 00:00 (America/Los_Angeles)

Introduction to Stata
2017-10-02 09:00 - 12:00 UTC | CLICC Classroom B, 3rd Floor Powell Library, Election Walk, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Stata is a powerful and yet easy-to-use statistical package that runs on Windows, Macintosh and Unix platforms. This class is designed for people who are just getting started using Stata. The students in the class will have a hands-on experience using Stata for statistics, graphics and data management. The class notes can be found at https://stats.idre.ucla.edu/stata/seminars/notes/.
RSVP at https://idre.ucla.edu/calendar-event/introduction-to-stata-3

Library Carpentry Workshop
2017-09-08 09:00 - 16:30 UTC | Young Research Library
Library Carpentry is made by librarians, for librarians to help you:

automate repetitive, boring, error-prone tasks
create, maintain and analyse sustainable and reusable data
work effectively with IT and systems colleagues
better understand the use of software in research
and much more…

Library Carpentry introduces you to the fundamentals of computing and provides you with a platform for further self-directed learning. For more information on what we teach and why, please see our paper “Library Carpentry: software skills training for library professionals“.
Who: The course is for librarians, archivists, and other information workers. You don’t need to have any previous knowledge of the tools that will be presented at the workshop.
Where: WECS
When: Sept 8, 2017. Add to your Google Calendar.
Requirements: Participants must bring a laptop with a Mac, Linux, or Windows operating system (not a tablet, Chromebook, etc.) that they have administrative privileges on. They should have a few specific software packages installed (listed below). They are also required to abide by Library Carpentry’s Code of Conduct.
Accessibility: We are committed to making this workshop accessible to everybody. The workshop organisers have checked that:

The room is wheelchair / scooter accessible.
Accessible restrooms are available.

Materials will be provided in advance of the workshop and large-print handouts are available if needed by notifying the organizers in advance. If we can help making learning easier for you (e.g. sign-language interpreters, lactation facilities) please get in touch (using contact details below) and we will attempt to provide them.

Using Data Effectively: Carpentries Teach Tools & Best Practices
2017-09-07 09:30 - 16:30 UTC | YRL Presentation Room, 280 Charles E Young Dr N., Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Looking for contextually-based data and computational training in a supportive, collaborative environment? Come join us in the Young Research Library Presentation Room for an introduction to the Software & Data Carpentry movement — a community-based computational and data skills instruction. The Community Development Lead for Software & Data Carpentry, Belinda Weaver, is in town from Brisbane, Australia to promote and catalyze the Carpentries at UCLA. We also have Juliane Schneider, Lead Data Curator of Harvard’s Catalyst archive and maintainer of the Library Carpentry Open Refine lesson, to tell us about the newest Carpentry — Library Carpentry — and how it fits into the broader Carpentry movements. John Chodacki from CDL’s UC3 is on hand to tell us about the next steps for Library Carpentry in the North Americas.

Labor Day
2017-09-04 00:00 (America/Los_Angeles)

A Hands-on Introduction to Literate Programming
2017-08-25 10:00 - 12:00 UTC | West Electronic Classroom, YRL Room 23167, 280 Charles E Young Dr N, Los Angeles, 90095, United States
A fundamental challenge for open science is how best to share the code and data used to produce the analysis, tables, and figures contained in a publication. Fortunately, new tools are emerging to address this problem. This workshop will introduce a solution that utilizes widely used open source components. We’ll create a “compilable” document containing text and bibliography, as well as all the code needed to create the graphs and tables. We’ll demonstrate how the process facilitates making revisions when data changes or in response to reviewer recommendation and the ease with which work can be shared pre or post publication. The following tools will be introduced:
* RStudio
* Markdown
* Zotero
* BibTex
* GitHub
Registration is required: http://calendar.library.ucla.edu/event/3495514

Independence Day
2017-07-04 00:00 (America/Los_Angeles)

Father’s Day
2017-06-18 00:00 (America/Los_Angeles)

Dressup 4 Librarians Meeting
2017-06-15 10:00, 2017-06-08 10:00 (America/Los_Angeles)

Flag Day
2017-06-14 00:00 (America/Los_Angeles)

Archeology on Broadway (Caldwell,Nelson, Whitmore)
2017-06-09 00:00 (America/Los_Angeles)

BuildUCLA "Community Cataloging" (Broadwell)
2017-06-09 00:00 (America/Los_Angeles)

Paris Past and Present (Cohen, Tanton)
2017-06-09 00:00, 2017-06-05 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles)

Grand Challenges Sustainability team (Rutkowski)
2017-06-09 00:00 (America/Los_Angeles)

Politecnico di Torino visiting scholars (Piumatti, Tamborrino)
2017-06-09 00:00 (America/Los_Angeles)

Who's Got Game? (LongHammer)
2017-06-09 00:00 (America/Los_Angeles)

IDRE Research Fellow (Tanton)
2017-06-09 00:00 (America/Los_Angeles)

DH 199 Capstone (Caldwell, Whitmore)
2017-06-08 14:00, 2017-06-07 09:00 (America/Los_Angeles)

DH 199 Capstone (Christensen)
2017-06-06 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
