Events

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....

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.  

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...

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...

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.  

This workshop is for those who need to learn data manipulation techniques using SAS data and procedure steps to access, transform, and summarize SAS data sets. The course builds on the concepts that are presented in the Introduction to SAS Programming workshop and is not recommended for beginning SAS software users.  In this hands-on workshop,...

UCLA-IDRE along with XSEDE and Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center is pleased to announce a two day Big Data workshop (September 12-13, 2017, 8 AM-2 PM PDT each day). This workshop will focus on topics such as Hadoop and Spark and will be presented using the Wide Area Classroom (WAC) training platform. For registration and detailed information,...

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 notes can be found at https://stats.idre.ucla.edu/stata/seminars/notes/ .

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 class notes can be found at https://stats.idre.ucla.edu/sas/seminars/notes/ .

The Hoffman2 cluster is a powerful computational resource for the UCLA research community. This class is designed to clarify the process of porting your own applications on the cluster or using applications already available on the cluster. It also addresses how to port your workflow to the Hoffman2 and how to submit batch and run...

This class will address the process of creating Matlab standalone executables and running Matlab in batch, as well as running Abaqus python scripts. Example of how to submit array jobs using Abaqus, R and other applications. Can my simulations be submitted as array jobs? Bring your own problem. Also, Jupyter Notebooks: another way to run...

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 are the scripts for the class. The class notes can be found at https://stats.idre.ucla.edu/spss/seminars/notes/ .

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...

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...

Part-I session of Computing Environment on Linux class is aimed to help researchers who are new to the 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...

The Department of Energy, National Science Foundation, and the National Aeronautical Space Agency support an ecosystem of “leadership class” computing facilities housing some of the world’s most advanced supercomputers and high-end visualization and data analysis resources. These facilities provide “free” computing cycles at scale and storage to researchers from academia. Access to these resources is...

R 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 R. The students in the class will have a hands-on experience using R for statistics, graphics and data management. The class notes can be found at...

November SPC event at UCLA is tentatively scheduled for Thursday, 11/30 10 am - 12 pm PDT (11 am - 1 pm MDT). It will be a technical workshop on introduction to scientific computing in Python. This is in collaboration with the Institute for Digital Research and Education (IDRE) here at UCLA. Some topics to...

UCLA-IDRE along with XSEDE and Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center is pleased to announce a two day Big Data workshop (February 7-8, 2018, 8 AM-2 PM PDT each day). This workshop will focus on topics such as Hadoop and Spark and will be presented using the Wide Area Classroom (WAC) training platform. For registration and detailed information,...

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...

This seminar will illustrate the different kinds of models that can be run with the SPSS command MIXED.  Basic syntax and useful options will be discussed, as well as possible solutions to common problems encountered in multilevel modeling.  Examples of both two- and three-level models will be provided. NOTE: All researchers are welcome to attend.

This seminar introduces R packages and functions that help users import, transform and manage their data in preparation for analysis.   The seminar focuses on the “tidy data” philosophy encouraged by the “tidyverse” collection of R packages, but draws on other packages for useful functions as needed.  Topics include data import, transforming variables, string functions, missing...

We will have a presentation on the unprivileged user namespace on Linux Kernel and Charliecloud container deployment.  We will have Charliecloud container running on both Ubuntu and CentOS 7. We are interested in user namespace as a way to get around security issues in deploying Docker container.  Our investigation is preliminary in nature.  You are...

We will do a demo of streaming data workflow using Kepler software.  In this demo, workflow will listen to data coming into a specific port on a laptop and process the data in a naive and simple way and send the output back to control.

Advanced Research Workshop Taught by Albert Kochaphum (Institute for Digital Research and Education). Event is free. Available to only UCLA students, faculty, staff, and visiting scholars. See website link below to RSVP. See other research training courses here.

Advanced Research Workshop - Using the spatial Statistics Toolbox in ArcGIS and presenting maps ArcGIS Online. Taught by Albert Kochaphum and Yoh Kawano (Institute for Digital Research and Education). Event is free. Available to only UCLA students, faculty, staff, and visiting scholars. See website link below to RSVP. See other research training courses here.

Advanced Research Workshop Andy Lin (Institute for Digital Research and Education) teaches a more advanced R session. Event is free. Available to only UCLA students, faculty, staff, and visiting scholars. See website link below to RSVP. See other research training courses here.

Advanced Research Workshop This workshop will provide an overview of the ATLAS.ti software, a tool that allows researchers to encode and use qualitative analysis methods on their “soft” data, e.g. text (interview transcripts), video, audio, images (maps), surveys, and more! We’ll provide hands-on practice using various types of data samples utilizing powerful tools within the...

Advanced Research Workshop This hands-on workshop will introduce some commonly used statistical software packages, including R, SAS, SPSS and Stata. Taught by Christine Wells (Institute for Digital Research and Education). Event is free. Available to only UCLA students, faculty, staff, and visiting scholars. See website link below to RSVP. See other research training courses here.

UCLA-IDRE along with XSEDE and Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center is pleased to announce a two day Big Data workshop (May 1-2, 2018, 8 AM-2 PM PDT each day). This workshop will focus on topics such as Hadoop and Spark and will be presented using the Wide Area Classroom (WAC) training platform. For registration and detailed information,...

IDRE will be doing a demo of automated Linux instance deployment on Microsoft Azure Cloud Platform using Kepler workflow software. An instance will be created on demand and terminated upon completion of remote execution.

Advanced Research Workshop How to get started with spatial data and statistics. Taught by Albert Kochaphum and Christine Wells (Institute for Digital Research and Education). Event is free. Available to only UCLA students, faculty, staff, and visiting scholars. See website link below to RSVP. See other research training courses here.

Advanced Research Workshop Zoe Borovsky (Library) and Bethany Myers (Library) cover the basics and some fancy, advanced features of this popular, free, web-based application. Event is free. Available to only UCLA students, faculty, staff, and visiting scholars. See website link below to RSVP. See other research training courses here.

This workshop will cover modeling binary outcome with logistic regression in SAS. We will discuss the logistic regression model, model building and fitting, interpretation of estimated parameters, assessment of model fit, graphing of model effects, and ROC analysis. This workshop does NOT cover ordinal or multinomial logistic regression.

If you have ever wondered what SurveyMonkey is or if you are already an in-the-know SurveyMonkey licensee, we invite you to a live training session. Software Central is hosting two SurveyMonkey Training sessions on Wednesday, May 9th, in the IDRE Portal – 5628 Math Sciences Building. Session #1 will be at 10:30am to 11:30am Session...

Advanced Research Workshop The focus of this talk is on understanding and applying initial steps to facilitate data management and data reuse. Topics covered will include data management plans, the data life cycle, file management, and metadata. Attendees will get a chance to practice using these approaches. Taught by Bethany Myers (Library). Event is free....

If you have ever wondered what SurveyMonkey is or if you are already an in-the-know SurveyMonkey licensee, we invite you to a live training session. Software Central is hosting two SurveyMonkey Training sessions on Wednesday, May 9th, in the IDRE Portal – 5628 Math Sciences Building. Session #1 will be at 10:30am to 11:30am Session...