This training introduces participants to Siteimprove, UCLA’s automated accessibility evaluation platform. Attendees will learn how to navigate the main accessibility dashboard, review accessibility issues across their websites, and use the...
Neural networks are the "beating heart" of modern LLM-based AI systems, driving everything from image recognition to natural language processing. In this 2-hour lecture, we'll explore the foundational concepts of...
This workshop introduces physics-informed neural networks (PINNs), a machine-learning approach that can complement or provide an alternative to traditional scientific computing methods such as finite difference, finite volume, and finite...
This session is part of the greater UCLA Disability Pride Week running from Oct 12-16. This session introduces participants to disability culture and the role of allyship in creating more...
Installing and managing scientific software and its dependencies can be challenging in both local and high-performance computing environments. Container technologies such as Docker, Podman, and Apptainer help address these challenges...
This session introduces the fundamentals of digital accessibility and why it matters at UCLA. Participants will learn what accessibility means in a digital context, gain insight into disability culture, and...
The Office of Advanced Research Computing is pleased to share this upcoming opportunity with UCLA researchers. You are invited to the AWS Research Day for UCLA — a one-day, in-person...
In this more advanced session participants will learn about the issues dashboard and how to both interpret results and prioritize issues. This session will also cover how to best use...
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...
New to the Hoffman2 Cluster? This session gets you from zero to logged-in. Learn how to request an account, connect via SSH or remote desktop, find your way around, and...
This recorded workshop series introduces learners to the fundamentals of ArcGIS Online as a browser-based GIS platform for creating, editing, and sharing spatial data. Designed for beginners or those transitioning...
Survival analysis models time-to-event outcomes. This workshop introduces usage of the survival package in R for some of the most commonly used survival methods. Topics include data setup, Kaplan-Meier estimates...
A static figure answers the question you chose in advance, while an interactive one lets readers explore the data and ask their own: zooming into a region, filtering to a...
This session provides an introduction to creating accessible documents in Google Docs, Microsoft Word, and PDFs. Participants will learn the fundamentals of digital accessibility, including how to use proper heading...
This hands-on session covers everything you need to work interactively on the Hoffman2 Cluster: navigating the filesystem, loading software with Environment Modules, and requesting compute resources through the job scheduler...
Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs) have emerged as an important tool in causal modeling to understand the relationships among variables. DAGs can inform what variables should be included or excluded in...
Batch computing is how you turn a single analysis into hundreds or thousands, scaling your research well beyond what you could run by hand. This workshop covers writing and submitting...
In this session participants will learn about video and audio accessibility best practices. By the end of this training you should be able to: -Create an WCAG 2.1 AA caption...
In this workshop you will learn how to develop image processing workflows in AWS using generative AI services.
This workshop introduces the generalized linear regression model, which extends the linear regression model to accommodate outcomes with different distributions. The workshop briefly reviews linear regression concepts as necessary, and...
The National Research Platform (NRP) gives researchers access to a distributed, Kubernetes-based cyberinfrastructure spanning dozens of institutions, including a large pool of GPUs and high-throughput storage. For researchers coming from...
Audience: UCLA web editors, content creators, IT staff, and program managers Tools Covered: WAVE Chrome plug-in, Siteimprove Accessibility, manual keyboard testing By the end of this training, participants will: -Understand...
In this workshop you will how to use LLMs and RAG in concert with prompt engineering to build purpose-driven AI productivity tools