Institute for Digital Research and Education
Learn the most effective search strategies for finding what you need at the UCLA Library. Navigate your research with ease and pick out the best sources for your project! In this workshop, you’ll explore the library research guides, learn strategies for finding the information you need, and find out about research consultations. This workshop is...
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Interested in applying to present at the Undergraduate Research & Creativity Showcase, Undergraduate Research Week's premier event? First, you’ll need an abstract or artist statement! Find out how to write one at this workshop. Applications are due by April 15. Join meeting here: https://bit.ly/urcworkshop
Learn all about URC-HASS’s scholarship opportunities for humanities, arts, and social science student and how you can receive $300-$17,000 in scholarships for doing research or creative inquiry! Find out more about the Undergraduate Research Fellows Program (URFP), Undergraduate Research Scholarship Program (URSP), UCLA/Keck Humanistic Inquiry Undergraduate Research Awards (Keck Fellows), Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship (MMUF),...
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Cloud computing service is the delivery of computing resources including applications, servers, storage, databases, networking, analytics, and artificial intelligence over the internet. Besides understanding of cloud computing, these workshops are intended to provide hands-on tutorials to see how cloud service providers may offer academic researchers an option to use additional computing resources. Working on two...
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Within the scholarship of teaching and learning, it has been proven time and again that “Assembling and curating specimen collections is a valuable educational exercise that integrates subject-specific skills such as field collection, curation, identification, organization, and interpretation of relationships.” (Lucky et. al 2019) Digital collections increasingly avail students and scholars of primary source research...
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Learn how to create a customized library of resources for your project! Find out how to auto-generate your bibliography in virtually any citation style, keep track of your sources, and avoid plagiarism. This workshop is offered as part of the Cornerstone Research Workshops, a six-part series covering foundational research topics and skills created by URC-HASS,...
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Make is a tool that can be used to automate the process of building programs, libraries, plots, and even papers. Make keeps track of the dependencies between files during this process, and if any file changes, Make knows how to update the built object to account for the updates. This can be a valuable tool...
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Writing a literature review can seem like a daunting task. Attend this interactive workshop to learn strategies for writing a literature review! This workshop is free and open to all undergraduates. This workshop is offered as part of the Cornerstone Research Workshops, a six-part series covering foundational research topics and skills created by URC-HASS, the...
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Git is a software tool that helps users manage changes to their software over time, and GitHub is a web-based platform for using Git and version control. They will allow you to maintain a complete change history of your files, create branches for concurrent streams of changes, trace changes with annotations, and collaborate and share...
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Streamline your research plan and learn how to organize your drafts, resources, and time when writing a research assignment. This workshop is free and open to all undergraduates. This workshop is offered as part of the Cornerstone Research Workshops, a six-part series covering foundational research topics and skills created by URC-HASS, the UCLA Library, and...
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This workshop will provide an introduction to convolutional neural networks (CNNs). We will begin by using PyTorch to perform image processing on the classic Dogs-vs-Cats problem. Basic knowledge of the topics covered in previous sessions is assumed. Having working experience with Python, Jupyter Notebooks, and linear algebra will be helpful for fully participating in the...
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Learn to use code profilers (software) to analyze a program's performance and resource usage, and to use the measurement data to guide tuning methodologies and workflows, in the context of scientific computing. Any questions about this workshop can be emailed to Shao-Ching Huang at sch@ucla.edu. Presented by the Office of Advanced Research Computing (OARC). Register here:...
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This workshop will be the second lecture in our introduction to convolutional neural networks (CNNs). We will continue our learning by applying data augmentation and transfer learning techniques to improve our solution for the classic Dogs-vs-Cats problem using PyTorch. A basic understanding of the topics covered in previous sessions is assumed. Having working experience with...
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This workshop will introduce participants to Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). We will demonstrate the core techniques of GANs, including how to use Deep Convolutional GANs (DCGANs) to generate images using PyTorch. A basic understanding of the topics covered in previous sessions is assumed. Having working experience with Python, Jupyter Notebooks, and linear algebra will be...
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The purpose of this seminar is to discuss techniques and introduce some useful packages in R for handling missing data. In particular, we will focus on multiple imputation and how to perform it using the R package, mice: “Multivariate Imputation by Chained Equations”. As prerequisite to this seminar, we suggest participants have basic knowledge in...
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In regression, we are often interested in an interaction, which is the modification or moderation of the effect of an independent variable by another. Understanding interactions involves interpreting the regression coefficients, estimating and testing simple effects and their differences, and visualizing the interaction. This workshop will teach you how to do all of these thing...
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This Happy Hour Series will go over using RStudio on the Hoffman2 cluster. We will go over examples with interacting with the RStudio IDE on Hoffman2 and show how to install packages, use GPUs, and submit non-interactive batch jobs using RStudio. Any questions about this workshop can be emailed to Charles Peterson at cpeterson@oarc.ucla.edu. Presented...
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This workshop will go over how to use container on HPC resources. Containers are a great way to run scientific software on various HPC platforms. Users can create a ‘virtual’ OS to easily install any application and transfer it to any system with container software. This workshop will cover how to build and use containers...
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Learn all about Undergraduate Research Week (May 22-26, 2023), UCLA’s annual weeklong celebration of undergraduate research and creative inquiry, and how you can present your research or creative project at the Undergraduate Research & Creativity Showcase event on May 23. Plus, learn how to apply for the Dean’s Prize and nominate your mentor for a...
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Learn how to get started with research and creative inquiry at UCLA including how to find opportunities, earn course credit for doing research or creative practice, and how to find a faculty mentor! This workshop is offered as part of the Cornerstone Research Workshop series, a six part series of foundational research topics and skills...
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Interested in applying to present at the Undergraduate Research & Creativity Showcase, Undergraduate Research Week‘s main event? First, you’ll need an abstract or artist statement! Find out how to write one at this workshop. Applications are due by April 17. All students are invited to present their research or creative projects at the Showcase! Each year, over...
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Amidst the backdrop of powerful AI engines producing essays and pirate shanties, it’s easy to forget that machine learning (ML) is still an onerous process for many that begins with finding and cleaning data. AI/ML relies on machine actionable data and adds complexity to an already difficult task for data stewards, research computing facilitators, and...
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Learn how to get started with research and creative inquiry at UCLA including how to find opportunities, earn course credit for doing research or creative practice, and how to find a faculty mentor! This workshop is offered as part of the Cornerstone Research Workshop series, a six part series of foundational research topics and skills...
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Interested in applying to present at the Undergraduate Research & Creativity Showcase, Undergraduate Research Week‘s main event? First, you’ll need an abstract or artist statement! Find out how to write one at this workshop. Applications are due by April 17. All students are invited to present their research or creative projects at the Showcase! Each year, over...
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This workshop is a follow-up to a previous workshop on “Using Containers on HPC Resources”. This workshop will focus on creating containers to be ran on HPC resources. We will go over building containers using Docker/podman and Apptainer/Singularity. We will also use Hoffman2 to run our newly built containers. To follow along, users will need...
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Learn how to navigate faculty mentorships while working on your research or creative project. Register here: https://bit.ly/urcworkshop
Learn how to turn your interests into a research question! Turn your general ideas for a topic into a set of research questions, and then get started generating effective keywords for your search at this workshop! This workshop is offered as part of the Cornerstone Research Workshops, a six-part series covering foundational research topics and...
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This is an overview of how our Research team is working with researchers from different domains to enable research and to help accelerate projects. Outlining the various resources, tools, and different approaches to empower institutions and researchers to do more, faster. In this session we can discuss specifics on how these approaches might apply to...
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Learn strategies, tips, and tools for managing your research or creative project to stay on track and maintain balance in your life! Register here: https://bit.ly/urcworkshop
Learn quantitative methods for conducting research in the humanities, arts, social sciences, and behavioral sciences! Register here: https://bit.ly/urcworkshop
Learn research methods for interviewing subjects including question design, how to do an interview, and project management at this free virtual workshop for undergraduates. Register here: https://bit.ly/urcworkshop
Learn the most effective search strategies for finding what you need at the UCLA Library. Navigate your research with ease and pick out the best sources for your project! In this workshop, you’ll explore the library research guides, learn strategies for finding the information you need, and find out about research consultations. This workshop is...
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Learn how to craft a standout presentation for the Undergraduate Research & Creativity Showcase and other Undergraduate Research Week events and conferences! Register here: https://bit.ly/urcworkshop
Learn all about URC-HASS’s scholarship opportunities for humanities, arts, and social science student and how you can receive $300-$17,000 in scholarships for doing research or creative inquiry! Find out more about the Undergraduate Research Fellows Program (URFP), Undergraduate Research Scholarship Program (URSP), UCLA/Keck Humanistic Inquiry Undergraduate Research Awards (Keck Fellows), Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship (MMUF),...
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Built on a hypersivor of host operation system, virtual machine (VM) offers an isolated virtual environment providing functionality needed to execute guest operation systems (OS) and applications. However, VMs usually require heavy computer resources to execute OS and programs. Alternatively, an advanced technique so-called containerization has been developed in the recent years for many applications....
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Learn how to create a customized library of resources for your project! Find out how to auto-generate your bibliography in virtually any citation style, keep track of your sources, and avoid plagiarism. This workshop is offered as part of the Cornerstone Research Workshops, a six-part series covering foundational research topics and skills created by URC-HASS,...
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While Python becomes the most popular programming language since 2019, data scientists often have a few common complaints about its slow speed and the limited capabilities of handling the big data scenarios. In this workshop series, we will present an extensive discussion on how to improve the performance of Python in data science by looking...
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Speaker: Victoria Rolandi, Ph.D. IDRE Fellow Mechanical and Aerospace Department University of California Los Angeles Location: Virtual via Zoom Recording available at: https://youtu.be/m9MTRk0ggrk Abstract: Understanding the transition of fluid flows has been and still is a crucial focus in fluid dynamics. Stability theory has greatly helped on this side and has opened the door to...
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Learn how to craft a standout presentation for the Undergraduate Research & Creativity Showcase and other Undergraduate Research Week events and conferences! Register here: https://bit.ly/urcworkshop
Built on a hypersivor of host operation system, virtual machine (VM) offers an isolated virtual environment providing functionality needed to execute guest operation systems (OS) and applications. However, VMs usually require heavy computer resources to execute OS and programs. Alternatively, an advanced technique so-called containerization has been developed in the recent years for many applications....
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Writing a literature review can seem like a daunting task. Attend this interactive workshop to learn strategies for writing a literature review! This workshop is offered as part of the Cornerstone Research Workshops, a six-part series covering foundational research topics and skills created by URC-HASS, the UCLA Library, and the Undergraduate Writing Center. Register here:...
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While Python becomes the most popular programming language since 2019, data scientists often have a few common complaints about its slow speed and the limited capabilities of handling the big data scenarios. In this workshop series, we will present an extensive discussion on how to improve the performance of Python in data science by looking...
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Meta-analysis is the synthesis of results from previous studies. It is used to increase power, obtain a better estimate of an effect size, and sometimes to resolve conflicting conclusions in the literature. In this workshop, we will discuss how the data for a meta-analysis are collected and organized, as well as how such data are...
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Data cleaning can be a time consuming aspect of research. Join us with guest speaker, Matthew Ponzini for look at Data Loofah, a tool to help researchers clean their data. Data Loofah was developed within the UC Davis Clinical & Translational Science Center (CTSC) – Biostatistics program. This interactive demonstration will provide an overview of...
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Learn how to craft a standout presentation for the Undergraduate Research & Creativity Showcase and other Undergraduate Research Week events and conferences! Register here: https://bit.ly/urcworkshop
In the era of open source software, there are a wide range of useful and free programs for researchers to take advantage of, including novel utility programs and innovative research codes. However, it may be necessary to build (compile/link) these programs before using them. During this process, one can run into errors like "command not...
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Streamline your research plan and learn how to organize your drafts, resources, and time when writing a research assignment. This workshop is offered as part of the Cornerstone Research Workshops, a six-part series covering foundational research topics and skills created by URC-HASS, the UCLA Library, and the Undergraduate Writing Center. Register here: https://bit.ly/urcworkshop
Python is a very popular language for computational and data science, and it has many powerful capabilities for visualizing data in the pursuit of understanding and conveying underlying patterns. The first part of this series will showcase various ways that Python can be used for creating graphics, following which we’ll dive into some common Python...
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This workshop teaches the “grammar” of graphics that underlies the ggplot2 package, allowing the user to build eye-catching, publication-quality graphics layer-by-layer. We cover the basic elements of the grammar of graphics, including aesthetics, geoms, scales, and themes, and we will show you how easy ggplot2 makes it to integrate these elements to make informative and...
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Learn all about the Undergraduate Research Scholars Program (URSP) and the UCLA/Keck Humanistic Inquiry Undergraduate Research Awards (Keck Fellows), as well as how to apply! URSP participants can receive $4,500-$6,000 in scholarships, and Keck Fellows can receive $8,000 in scholarships plus a $2,000 research or creative stipend. Applications for URSP and the Keck Fellows are due by June...
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