Digital Scholarship at Brock University

Workshops

The DSL offers a wide variety of different workshops, some of which are listed below. If you’d like to arrange a special session or to request a new works please send us an email at dsl@brocku.ca. Registration for our events can be done on ExperienceBU for the Brock Community or EventBrite.

Text Analysis with R
Text Analysis with R
Learn the tools needed to perform basic text analysis with the R programming language
Text Analysis with Python
Text Analysis with Python
Learn the basics of Text Analysis using the Python programming language
Power BI Workflow and Online Service
Power BI Workflow and Online Service
Learn about the general workflow of Power BI from Desktop, to Service, to Sharing
Making Functions with R
Making Functions with R
Learn the tools needed to make functions in the R programming language
Making a Free Webpage with GitHub Pages
Making a Free Webpage with GitHub Pages
Learn how to host free webpages on GitHub
Machine Learning with Python
Machine Learning with Python
Learn the basics of using the Python programming language for machine learning
Introduction to Tableau
Introduction to Tableau
An introduction to the Tableau Public data visualization tool
Introduction to SQL and Databases
Introduction to SQL and Databases
Learn the basics of how SQL databases are created
Introduction to R
Introduction to R
Learn the basics of using the R programming language
Introduction to Python
Introduction to Python
An introduction to the Python programming language
Introduction to Power BI
Introduction to Power BI
Learn to use the Power BI tool to gain some basic insights into data and create visualizations
Introduction to Open Refine
Introduction to Open Refine
Learn the basics of using Open Refine for data cleaning
Introduction to LaTeX
Introduction to LaTeX
Easy introduction to typesetting for scientific publications
Introduction to GitHub Repositories and GitHub Desktop
Introduction to GitHub Repositories and GitHub Desktop
Learn the basics of using GitHub Repositories and GitHub Desktop
Introduction to Data Visualization
Introduction to Data Visualization
A workshop that explains the what, why, and how of data visualization
Introduction to ArcGIS Online
Introduction to ArcGIS Online
Whether you're new to ArcGIS or a pro, you'll want to attend this workshop. We'll demo the basics and new features in the 2022 update.
Introduction to AI Tools
Introduction to AI Tools
Learn about AI and popular AI tools
GitHub for Researchers
GitHub for Researchers
This two hour session will introduce everything you need to know about GitHub as a researcher interested in building and sharing code and data.
Data Visualization with R
Data Visualization with R
Learn the basics of using the ggplot2 package to create visualizations in R
Data Science with Python
Data Science with Python
Learn the basics of using the Python programming language for data science
Collaborating with Version Control on GitHub
Collaborating with Version Control on GitHub
Learn about the different ways that GitHub can be used to collaborate on projects including organizations, collaborators, issues, forking, and pull requests.
Citation Management with Zotero
Citation Management with Zotero
Manage citations like a pro from any internet source with Zotero
Automating tasks with GitHub Actions
Automating tasks with GitHub Actions
Learn about the Actions aspect of GitHub
ArcGIS Storymaps
ArcGIS Storymaps
Learn the basics of using ArcGIS Storymaps to make beautiful interactive sites
Advanced Text Analysis with Python
Advanced Text Analysis with Python
A workshop that introduces more complex text analysis techniques, including topic modeling, and text similarity
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