Practical Web Technologies for Social Scientists

This workshop will introduce the alphabet soup of technologies powering the modern web; TCP/IP, HTTP, HTML, XML, JSON, REST APIs, OAUTH, SSL, AWS, among others. Attendees will build up enough background knowledge to begin scraping data from the web. Python will be demonstrated, but the concepts are reasonably generic. This Workshop will be offered via Zoom. If you're registered, you'll receive the Zoom invitation information the day before the Workshop.
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Library Carpentry Workshop

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…
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