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Introduction to R

Institute for Digital Research and Education
IDRE Portal 5628 Math Sciences Building, 520 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United States

R is a programming environment that runs on Windows, Macintosh and UNIX platforms. This class is designed for people who are just starting to use R. The students in the...

Free

IDRE Early Career Research Day

Institute for Digital Research and Education
Sequoia Room, UCLA Faculty Center 480 Charles E Young Dr S, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Venue: Sequoia Room, UCLA Faculty Center, 480 Charles E. Young Drive East, Los Angeles Registration: RSVP link Contact: T.V.Singh The Institute for Digital Research and Education (IDRE) is pleased to...

Free

Accessibility Basics Training

Disabilities and Computing Program
Zoom

People who are blind, low-vision or have dyslexia rely on assistive technologies and screenreading software to “read text out loud” to them. However, many documents and websites created are completely...

XSEDE HPC Workshop: BIG DATA

Institute for Digital Research and Education
IDRE Visualization Portal, Math Sciences Building 5628 520 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United States

UCLA-IDRE, along with XSEDE and Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, is pleased to announce a two day Big Data workshop (Dec 3-4, 2019, 8 AM-2 PM PDT each day). This workshop will...

Accessibility Basics Training

Disabilities and Computing Program
Zoom

People who are blind, low-vision or have dyslexia rely on assistive technologies and screenreading software to “read text out loud” to them. However, many documents and websites created are completely...

Introduction to Data Visualization

Institute for Digital Research and Education
IDRE Portal 5628 Math Sciences Building, 520 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United States

There are many ways to communicate the results of research. Visually representing data provides a valuable perspective within an academic argument. Data visualizations provide an overview or snapshot of a...

Free

Software Carpentry Workshop – R

UCLA IDRE Statistical Consulting
IDRE Portal 5628 Math Sciences Building, 520 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United States

REGISTER HERE This is a two day workshop.  Software Carpentry aims to help researchers get their work done in less time and with less pain by teaching them basic research computing...

Introduction to GIS and Spatial Research

Institute for Digital Research and Education
IDRE Portal 5628 Math Sciences Building, 520 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United States

As members of an academic community with a myriad of research initiatives, the need to map information, to spatially analyze, to geoprocess, and to visualize space and time is becoming...

Free

Data Visualization with Python

Institute for Digital Research and Education
IDRE Portal 5628 Math Sciences Building, 520 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Python offers many graphing libraries for placing data into a visual context. This short class will be an interactive overview of libraries such as matplotlib, seaborn, ggplot, Plotly, Bokeh, and...

Free

R Markdown

Institute for Digital Research and Education
IDRE Portal 5628 Math Sciences Building, 520 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United States

R Markdown files integrate text, Markdown, and R code into dynamic documents that weave together plain text, formatted text, and the output of the R code.  The resulting dynamic reports...

Free

Jupyter Advanced Topics

Institute for Digital Research and Education
IDRE Portal 5628 Math Sciences Building, 520 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United States

This short class will illustrate several powerful tools and features that can enhance one’s experience with Jupyter notebooks. The interactive demonstrations will include a brief overview of how to make...

Free

Accessibility Basics Training

Disabilities and Computing Program
Zoom

People who are blind, low-vision or have dyslexia rely on assistive technologies and screenreading software to “read text out loud” to them. However, many documents and websites created are completely...

Regression Models with Count Data

Institute for Digital Research and Education
IDRE Portal 5628 Math Sciences Building, 520 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Regression models for data with a count outcome is part of the family of generalized linear models. This workshop is designed to give an overview on regression model with count...

Free

XSEDE HPC Workshop: BIG DATA

OIT Conference Room 5907 5907 Math Sciences Building, 520 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United States

UCLA-IDRE, along with XSEDE and Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, is pleased to announce a two day Big Data workshop (February 19 - 20, 2020, 8 AM-2 PM PDT each day). This...

Learning Deep Learning with PyTorch (1) Introduction

Institute for Digital Research and Education
IDRE Portal 5628 Math Sciences Building, 520 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United States

This workshop series is to present overviews to the exciting deep learning techniques and to provide a practical guide for general audience to step into the field. It will be...

Free

Introduction to Survey Data Analysis in Stata

Institute for Digital Research and Education
IDRE Portal 5628 Math Sciences Building, 520 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United States

The workshop will introduce the basic concepts and elements necessary to analyze data collected via a complex sampling design.  The workshop will use Stata to conduct descriptive analyses and create...

Free

Accessibility Testing Training

Disabilities and Computing Program
Zoom

In this live hour-long webinar the UCLA Disabilities and Computing Program will introduce the basics of accessibility testing. The ability to identify accessibility errors is the first step in making...

Learning Deep Learning with PyTorch (2) Mechanics of Deep Learning

Institute for Digital Research and Education
IDRE Portal 5628 Math Sciences Building, 520 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United States

This workshop series is to present overviews to the exciting deep learning techniques and to provide a practical guide for general audience to step into the field. It will be...

Free

Learning Deep Learning with PyTorch (3) Using PyTorch

Institute for Digital Research and Education
IDRE Portal 5628 Math Sciences Building, 520 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United States

This workshop series is to present overviews to the exciting deep learning techniques and to provide a practical guide for general audience to step into the field. It will be...

Free

Job Scheduling on Hoffman2 Cluster

Institute for Digital Research and Education
IDRE Portal 5628 Math Sciences Building, 520 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United States

We will discuss how to effectively run jobs on Hoffman2 cluster which serves a wide spectrum of user applications and is almost always heavily loaded. We will first review the...

Free

Advanced Topics in Survey Data Analysis

Institute for Digital Research and Education
IDRE Portal 5628 Math Sciences Building, 520 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United States

This workshop will cover advanced topics in the analysis of complex survey data.  Familiarity with common sampling plans and how to analyze data from them is necessary to understand the...

Free

Running Applications on the Hoffman2 Cluster: Part I

Institute for Digital Research and Education
IDRE Portal 5628 Math Sciences Building, 520 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United States

The Hoffman2 cluster is a powerful computational resource for the UCLA research community. This class is designed to clarify the process of getting started on the cluster, navigating the command...

Free

Learning Deep Learning with PyTorch (4) Convolutional Neural Networks

Institute for Digital Research and Education
IDRE Portal 5628 Math Sciences Building, 520 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United States

This workshop series is to present overviews to the exciting deep learning techniques and to provide a practical guide for general audience to step into the field. It will be...

Free

XSEDE HPC Workshop: GPU Programming Using OpenACC

Institute for Digital Research and Education
IDRE Visualization Portal, Math Sciences Building 5628 520 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United States

UCLA-IDRE along with XSEDE and Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center is pleased to announce an OpenACC GPU Programming workshop on March 3, 2020, 8 AM- 2 PM PDT. OpenACC is the accepted...

Learning Deep Learning with PyTorch (5) Transfer Learning

Institute for Digital Research and Education
IDRE Portal 5628 Math Sciences Building, 520 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United States

This workshop series is to present overviews to the exciting deep learning techniques and to provide a practical guide for general audience to step into the field. It will be...

Free

Accessibility Basics Training

Disabilities and Computing Program
Zoom

People who are blind, low-vision or have dyslexia rely on assistive technologies and screenreading software to “read text out loud” to them. However, many documents and websites created are completely...

Running Applications on the Hoffman2 Cluster: Part II

Institute for Digital Research and Education
IDRE Portal 5628 Math Sciences Building, 520 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United States

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...

Free

Accessibility Testing Training

Disabilities and Computing Program
Zoom

In this live hour-long webinar the UCLA Disabilities and Computing Program will introduce the basics of accessibility testing. The ability to identify accessibility errors is the first step in making...

Learning Deep Learning with PyTorch (1) Introduction

Institute for Digital Research and Education
Zoom

This workshop series is to present overviews to the exciting deep learning techniques and to provide a practical guide for general audience to step into the field. It will be...

IDRE-Early Career Researchers Group Meeting

Institute for Digital Research and Education
Zoom

Time:  12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Date: April 22, 2020 Location:  Zoom (the meeting link will be sent to you once you rsvp below) RSVP HERE IDRE is happy to...

Learning Deep Learning with PyTorch (3) Knowing PyTorch

Institute for Digital Research and Education
Zoom

This workshop series is to present overviews to the exciting deep learning techniques and to provide a practical guide for general audience to step into the field. It will be...

Introduction to ggplot2

Institute for Digital Research and Education
Zoom

The ggplot2 package is a widely-used and well-supported system for creating eye-catching graphics in R.  In this interactive workshop, you will learn the underlying grammar of graphics that forms the...

Free

Intro to GIS: Getting Started with Spatial Research

Institute for Digital Research and Education
Zoom

As members of an academic community with a myriad of research initiatives, the need to map information, to spatially analyze, to geoprocess, and to visualize space and time is becoming...

Free

Introduction to Mplus

Institute for Digital Research and Education
Zoom

Mplus is a powerful statistical package used for the analysis of latent variables. Among the kinds of analysis it can perform are exploratory factor analysis, confirmatory factor analysis, latent class...

Free

R Data Management

Institute for Digital Research and Education
Zoom

This workshop 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 y...

Free

Data Processing and Visualization using MATLAB

Institute for Digital Research and Education
Zoom

MATLAB, developed by MathWorks, has been used in research and the industry for computations, simulations, data analysis and visualization across multiple disciplines such as physical sciences, engineering, economics, and biomedical...

Rebel Story Mapping: Critical Perspectives on Data Visualizations

Institute for Digital Research and Education
Zoom

Learn how to break the rules of mapmaking! This workshop's main lecture introduces disruptive mapping practices from critical cartography and indigenous critical theory and applies them to a Critical COVID-19...

Free

Exploring Data and Machine Learning with Interactive Python Tools

Institute for Digital Research and Education
Zoom

This course will teach attendees how to build interactive widgets and visualizations for exploring equations, datasets, and machine learning models. This course will touch on several machine learning tools in...

A Practical Introduction to Factor Analysis in SPSS

Institute for Digital Research and Education
Zoom

This workshop will give a practical overview of exploratory (EFA) in SPSS. Topics to be covered include factor extraction, principal components analysis, estimation methods, factor rotation, refining the factor structure,...

Free

Running Applications on the Hoffman2 Cluster: Part I

Institute for Digital Research and Education
Zoom

The Hoffman2 cluster is a powerful computational resource for the UCLA research community. This class is designed to clarify the process of getting started on the cluster, navigating the command...

Free

Using SQL with Python for Data Analysis

Institute for Digital Research and Education
Zoom

SQL is a standard language designed to query and extract data from tables stored in a database.  Python, on the other hand, has well-known libraries specially designed for data analysis...

Talk: “Power and Sample Size” with Stata Corp’s Chuck Huber

Institute for Digital Research and Education
Zoom

In this talk, I introduce the concepts and jargon of power and sample size calculations such as alpha levels, power, and minimum detectable effect sizes.  I do several simple calculations...

Free

Running Applications on the Hoffman2 Cluster: Part II

Institute for Digital Research and Education
Zoom

This class will address the process of creating MATLab standalone executables and running MATLab in batch, as well as running Abaqus python scripts. It will give examples of how to...

Free

Epidemic Model Guided Machine Learning for COVID-19 Forecasts

Institute for Digital Research and Education
Zoom

Time:  12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Date: June 05, 2020 Location:  Zoom (you will receive an email after your rsvp) RSVP HERE Link to the presentation's recording and slides Abstract:...

Introduction to Jupyter

Institute for Digital Research and Education
Zoom

The Jupyter Notebook is a computing tool that allows users to edit and run Python, R, Julia (and many other programming languages) inside a web browser. Furthermore, it is a...

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