Institute for Digital Research and Education
The BruinTech Board is proud to announce the 2016 BruinTech-a-thon, a mini conference where tech enthusiasts from around campus will give 30 minute presentations on the work they are doing in their departments. The event will feature presentations on a wide variety of current IT projects, issues, strategies, and techniques, as well as the opportunity...
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The Spring 2016 Mapping for Research Series Get.Into.Spring with G.I.S and your research Spring is in the air and there is no better time to think about how mapping could impact your work. Join us this April and dive into the world of mapping. Explore the latest digital mapping technologies and make your research project...
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IDRE Seminar - Computation and Storage, Data Informatics Computational challenges and solutions in an analysis of large-scale whole genome sequencing data Speakers: Eleazar Eskin1, Giovanni Goppola2, and Jae Hoon Sul2 1Professor, Computer Science - Human Genetics 2Professor, Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences University of California, Los Angeles Date and Time: May 5th, 2016 at 12:00 PM(Lunch...
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IDRE Seminar- GPU/Many cores program Computing Fluid Flows on Multi-GPU Cluster using Lattice Boltzmann Method Chao-An Lin Department of Power Mechanical Engineering, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu 30013 Taiwan Date and Time: May 23, 2016 at 12:00 PM (Lunch will be served*) Location: 5628 Math Sciences Bldg. RSVP**: http://cfapps.ats.ucla.edu/cfapps/events/rsvp/RSVPNow.cfm?EveID=3531&SecID=3518 Abstract: Due to its enhanced computational...
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IDRE Early Career Researchers Lunch and Meeting Date and Time: May 31, 2016 at 11:30 AM (Lunch will be served*) Location: Visualization Portal, 5628 Math Sciences Bldg. RSVP**: Link This IDRE Early Career Researchers Lunch and Meeting is the first in a series of informal get-togethers for young researchers in the computational sciences. Realizing that dedicated and...
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Come and join us in the Portal for a Code for the Mission - Coffee and Cookie break “Meetup”! Want to build an app over the summer and win $5000 in September? Want to team up with Faculty Who have exciting app concepts? Have a neat idea for an App that will fit this year’s...
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Funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, this two-day symposium on Advanced Challenges in Theory and Practice in 3D Modeling of Cultural Heritage Sites will be held on Monday, June 20, and Tuesday, June 21. This event is the culmination of an Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities Summer Institute co-hosted by University of...
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In collaboration with Blue Waters sustained-petascale computing project, UCLA Institute for Digital Research and Education (IDRE) is happy to host the following workshop on workflows. Free Workflows Workshop: Registration is now open for a free Workflows Workshop to be held August 9-10, 2016 at multiple institutions across the country including UCLA-IDRE. Sponsored by the Blue...
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This course is for users who want to learn how to write SAS programs. It is the entry point to learning SAS programming and is a prerequisite to many other SAS courses. Learn how to, navigate the SAS Studio programming environment, navigate the SAS Enterprise Guide programming, environment, navigate the SAS windowing environment, read various...
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This course teaches you how to process SAS data using Structured Query Language (SQL). This course can help prepare you for the following certification exam(s): SAS Advanced Programming Exam for SAS 9. Learn how to query and subset data, summarize and present data, combine tables, including complex joins and merges, create and modify table views...
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Introduction to Stata, October 3: 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...
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This session is a general introduction to how to use UCLA Hoffman2 Cluster. The objective is to familiarize current and potential cluster users with the Hoffman2 Cluster, so they can make the best use of UCLA computational resources. The following topics will be covered: How to access and login to the Hoffman2 Cluster, primarily in...
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Introduction to SAS, October 10: 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 SAS class notes...
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We will discuss how to effectively run jobs on Hoffman2 cluster. Hoffman2 cluster serves a wide spectrum of user applications and is almost always heavily loaded. Different kinds of jobs impose conflicting conditions in terms of job scheduling, given available computing resources. We will first review the components of Hoffman2 cluster, the shared cluster model,...
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MPI (message passing interface) is the de facto standard for distributed-memory parallel scientific computing. While the entire MPI API is quite extensive, this class will cover a number of key ingredients commonly used in practice. This class is useful for those who plan to start writing MPI code, and for those who would like to...
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Introduction to SPSS, October 17: 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...
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Part-I session of Computing Environment on Linux class is aimed to help researchers who are new to Linux system. This two hour session will introduce basic Unix/Linux commands, shells, as well as a few editors available on most of the flavors of Linux operating system. The user should be able to log in to a...
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A SAS representative would like to introduce professors (and UCLA researchers in general) about free SAS resources that can be used for teaching. The event will involve a short presentation by the SAS representative, but will mostly be a Q&A session.
The second session of the Computing Environment on Linux is about the use of the Linux system for computation. It will describe the compilation and execution procedures for a given source program. A sample software code will be used to demonstrate the computing tools, such as makefile, debugger, and profiler, available on most flavors of...
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Introduction to R, October 24: R is a powerful statistical package that runs on many platforms, including Windows, Macintosh and Unix. This class is designed for people who are just getting started using R. The students in the class will have a hands-on experience using R for statistics, graphics, and data management. The R class...
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Introduction to R, November 8: R is a powerful statistical package that runs on many platforms, including Windows, Macintosh and Unix. This class is designed for people who are just getting started using R. The students in the class will have a hands-on experience using R for statistics, graphics, and data management. The R class...
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Speaker: Hsinchun Chen, Ph.D.; Arizona Regents’ Professor, Thomas R. Brown Chair Professor in Management and Technology, University of Arizona; Director, Artificial Intelligence Lab; Fellow, ACM, IEEE, AAAS Time: 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. (Lunch will be served*) Location: Kerckhoff Hall - Charles E. Young Grand Salon Registration: https://idre.ucla.edu/calendar-event/hacker-web-project#rsvp Abstract: In this talk I...
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This talk will introduce the concepts and jargon of structural equation modeling (SEM). We will demonstrate how to fit SEMs for continuous outcomes using the -sem- command in Stata. We will also demonstrate how use Stata's -gsem- command to fit multilevel structural equation models that include continuous, binary, multinomial, ordinal and count outcomes using a...
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If you currently use Hoffman2 or are interested in doing so, this is a great opportunity to get information on UCLA’s shared high-performance computing environment and provide feedback to the IDRE Research Technology Group on the future direction of the service. The meeting will include a quick overview of the Hoffman2 cluster, HPC storage, and...
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The purpose of this workshop is to discuss commonly used techniques for handling missing data and common issues that could arise when these techniques are used. In particular, the se workshop will focus on the one of the most commonly used modern methods, multiple imputation. The workshop will cover multiple imputation using the multivariate normal...
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This workshop will show how descriptive analyses, both numerical and graphical, can be done with continuous and categorical variables. Subpopulation analysis will be discussed, and then examples of OLS regression and logistic regression will be considered.
Speaker: Omar I. Asensio, Ph.D., IDRE Scholar Institute of the Environment & Sustainability, Anderson School of Management Ziman Center, UCLA Time: 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. (Lunch will be served*) Date: Feb 8, 2017 Location: 5628, Math Sciences Building Registration: https://idre.ucla.edu/calendar-event/big-data-and-information-policies#rsvp Abstract: Mobile apps and smart metering technologies can provide a wealth...
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This session is a general introduction to how to use UCLA Hoffman2 Cluster. The objective is to familiarize current and potential cluster users with the Hoffman2 Cluster, so they can make the best use of UCLA computational resources. The following topics will be covered: 1. How to access and login to the Hoffman2 Cluster, primarily...
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Python, originally developed as a general purpose programming language, has gained its popularity in the scientific community in recently years owning to its elegant and easy- to-understand syntax and powerful libraries. Python fully supports both functional and object-oriented programming styles. This class will present a number useful features of Python in the context of scientific...
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This workshop will introduce some fundamental topics in regression analysis using SPSS in three parts. The first part will begin with a brief overview of the SPSS environment, as well simple data exploration techniques to ensure accurate analysis using simple and multiple regression. The second part will introduce regression diagnostics such as checking for normality...
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Speaker: Dr. Françoise Genova, Astronomer, Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg Time: 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. (Lunch will be served*) Date: Feb 15, 2017 Location: 5628, Math Sciences Building Registration: https://idre.ucla.edu/calendar-event/data-as-infrastructure#rsvp Abstract: Science data sharing is currently high in the political agenda, but some disciplines began to share their...
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Python, originally developed as a general purpose programming language, has gained its popularity in the scientific community in recently years owning to its elegant and easy- to-understand syntax and powerful libraries. Python fully supports both functional and object-oriented programming styles. This class will present a number useful features of Python in the context of scientific...
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R is a powerful statistical package that runs on many platforms, including Windows, Macintosh and Unix. This class is designed for people who are just getting started using R. The students in the class will have a hands-on experience using R for statistics, graphics, and data management. The R class notes do not contain any...
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This workshop introduces how to use the R ggplot2 package to produce publication-quality graphics, particularly for data analysis accompanying a planned regression model. First, the underlying grammar (system) of graphics is introduced with demonstrations. Then the usage of ggplot2 for exploratory graphs, model diagnostics, and presentation of model results is illustrated through 3 examples.
Speaker: Nikhil Chandra Admal, Ph.D., IDRE Scholar, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles Time: 11:45 a.m. to 1 p.m. (Lunch will be served*) Date: March 8, 2017 Location: 5628, Math Sciences Building RSVP: https://idre.ucla.edu/calendar-event/polycrystalline-…undary-evolution#rsvp Abstract: Dynamic recrystallization can be defined as a spontaneous change in...
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UCLA-IDRE and SDSC are organizing the workshop "HPC and Big Data Analytics using Comet" in order to introduce the Comet supercomputer and its usage to the researchers at UCLA. Comet, a petascale supercomputer at San Diego Supercomputing Center (SDSC), is one of the key resources within the NSF’s XSEDE (Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment)...
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This workshop covers descriptive analyses, both numerical and graphical, with both continuous and categorical variables. Subpopulation analysis will be discussed, and then examples of OLS regression and logistic regression will be considered.
Speaker: Dr. Zhenman Fang, Ph.D., IDRE Scholar, Computer Science Department, University of California, Los Angeles Time: 11:45 A.M. - 1 P.M. (Lunch will be serverd*) Date: Apr 12, 2017 Location: 5628, Math Sciences Building RSVP: https://idre.ucla.edu/calendar-event/accel-next-gen-dna-seqn#rsvp Abstract: Modern medical research is being transformed with the advance of next-generation sequencing technologies that dramatically reduce...
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Mplus is a powerful statistical package used for the analysis of both observed and latent variables. Among the kinds of analysis it can perform are exploratory factor analysis, confirmatory factor analysis, latent class analysis, latent growth curve modeling, structural equation modeling and multilevel modeling. This workshop is designed for people who are just getting started...
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This workshop introduces methods of analyzing interactions (moderated effects) in regression models: calculating, comparing and graphing simple effects and slopes. Specifically, we emphasize the use of proc plm and the lsmeans and estimates statements in SAS in conjunction with a solid understanding of the regression equation. Examples include two- and three-way interactions in linear regression...
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Description: This course is for users who want to learn how to write SAS programs. It is the entry point to learning SAS programming and is a prerequisite to many other SAS courses. This workshop will be presented by an instructor from SAS. This is the first of two workshops in preparation for the Base...
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Instructors: Yoh Kawano and Albert Kochaphum This workshop is for those who want to use film as a method of research, whether in creating a documentary film, or to collect qualitative data through interviews. The workshop will cover the basics on what equipment to use, how to shoot an interview, B Roll, and verite footage....
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This workshop covers Stata commands and methods for common data management tasks, such as identifying data errors, identifying duplicated data, specifying missing values, working with string variables, labeling variables, creating new variables, merging datasets, processing data by groups and using loops for repetitive tasks. The workshops is focused on preparing data for statistical analysis.
Instructors: Yoh Kawano, Andy Rutkowski, and Albert Kochaphum. Having a hard time finding a data source? This workshop will go over strategies for locating and using a variety of open and proprietary data sources, including Social Explorer, SimplyMap, PolicyMap, EVGeoCloud, and Los Angeles Open Data.
Speaker: Kristine Tanton, Ph.D., IDRE Scholar, Department of Art History, University of California, Los Angeles Time: 11:45 A.M. – 1 P.M. (Lunch will be served*) Date: May 10, 2017 Location: 5628, Math Sciences Building RSVP: https://idre.ucla.edu/calendar-event/resurrecting-historical-monuments#rsvp Abstract: How do art and architectural historians study monuments that have been lost to time?...
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This session is a general introduction to how to use UCLA Hoffman2 Cluster. The objective is to familiarize current and potential cluster users with the Hoffman2 Cluster, so they can make the best use of UCLA computational resources. The following topics will be covered: 1. How to access and login to the Hoffman2 Cluster, primarily...
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Instructors: Albert Kochaphum and Pete Broadwell Starting with a simple introduction to Python, this workshop will demonstrate how to turn structured data from any website into a csv file. Topics include the following: identifying appropriate websites, installing Python, tweaking Python code, and examining the data output.
Instructors: Yoh Kawano, Albert Kochaphum, Andy Rutkowski. This workshop will go over step-by-step how to create a map using ArcGIS. We will discuss spatial joins, styling data, and how to utilize basic spatial tools. Data will be provided.
Instructors: Yoh Kawano, Andy Rutkowski, and Albert Kochaphum The workshop will be the culmination of the workshop series by teaching a platform in which to showcase projects. Ranging from CartoDB to ESRI’s Story Maps, this workshop will cover: using tabular data for mapping, converting data into a digital web map, and creating a narrative structure...
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Instructor: Bruce McCrimmon This workshop will go through how to import and creating 3D models from Maya for animating in Adobe After Effects. Basic skills to be covered are converting models, rotating models, and animating motion.