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R Markdown Basics

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

REGISTER FOR EVENT 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 can be produced in many formats, including HTML documents, HTML slideshows, LaTeX pdf, Beamer slideshows, MS Word doc, books, scientific articles, and...

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Running Applications on the Hoffman2 Cluster: Case Studies

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 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...

Free

Accessibility Basics Training

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

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 inaccessible or just frustrating for screenreader users. Learn accessible design and content management tools to make it easier for people with disabilities to engage with...

Making PDFs Accessible the Easy Way

Disabilities and Computing Program
Learning Lab Rolfe Hall 2118 Rolfe Hall, Los Angeles, CA, United States

REGISTER NOW PDF is one of the most common document formats at UCLA. 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 PDF documents created are completely inaccessible or frustrating for screenreader users. Public PDFs posted on websites, PDF course...

Accessibility Basics Training

Disabilities and Computing Program
IDRE Portal 5628 Math Sciences Building, 520 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United States

REGISTER NOW 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 inaccessible or just frustrating for screenreader users. Learn accessible design and content management tools to make it easier for people with disabilities to...

Forum – Research in the Cloud at UCLA

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

An open forum for discussing, learning about and leveraging cloud resources for research at UCLA. This event is oriented primarily for faculty who already are or are considering using the cloud to support their research. Small projects or large, North or South campus, beginner or advanced users are welcome to ask questions and share experiences. The forum will begin with...

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Understanding 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. Hoffman2 cluster serves a wide spectrum of user applications and is almost always heavily loaded. We will first review the model and policy of Hoffman2's job scheduling, followed by fundamentals of using its job scheduler, Univa Grid Engine. A number of common use cases...

Free

Forum – Research in the Cloud at UCLA

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

An open forum for discussing, learning about and leveraging cloud resources for research at UCLA. This event is oriented primarily for faculty who already are or are considering using the cloud to support their research. Small projects or large, North or South campus, beginner or advanced users are welcome to ask questions and share experiences. The forum will begin with...

Free

Forum – Research in the Cloud at UCLA

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

An open forum for discussing, learning about and leveraging cloud resources for research at UCLA. This event is oriented primarily for faculty who already are or are considering using the cloud to support their research. Small projects or large, North or South campus, beginner or advanced users are welcome to ask questions and share experiences. The forum will begin with...

Free

Making PDFs Accessible the Easy Way

Disabilities and Computing Program
Learning Lab Rolfe Hall 2118 Rolfe Hall, Los Angeles, CA, United States

REGISTER NOW PDF is one of the most common document formats at UCLA. 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 PDF documents created are completely inaccessible or frustrating for screenreader users. Public PDFs posted on websites, PDF course...

XSEDE HPC Workshop: BIG DATA

Institute for Digital Research and Education
IDRE Portal 5628 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 (Apr 2-3, 2019, 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,...

Making PDFs Accessible the Easy Way

Disabilities and Computing Program
Learning Lab Rolfe Hall 2118 Rolfe Hall, Los Angeles, CA, United States

REGISTER NOW PDF is one of the most common document formats at UCLA. 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 PDF documents created are completely inaccessible or frustrating for screenreader users. Public PDFs posted on websites, PDF course...

Running Applications on the Hoffman2 Cluster: Introduction

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 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...

Free

Accessibility Basics Training Webinar

Disabilities and Computing Program
Zoom

Register Now 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 inaccessible or just frustrating for screenreader users. Learn accessible design and content management tools to make it easier for people with disabilities to...

Intro to GIS: Got data? Let’s map it!

Institute for Digital Research and Education
Young Research Library, West Classroom 280 Charles E Young Dr N, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Register Here It is said that more than 80% of all data has a spatial component to it. As more and more research is leaning towards spatial analysis, this course offers an introduction to Geographic Information Systems, GIS, as a means to spatialize and analyze your data. As a hands-on course, you will learn how...

Introduction to Jupyter

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

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 powerful tool that allows users to combine live code, text, and visualizations in an interactive, shareable, reproducible document. It has been growing in popularity in...

Free

Introduction to ggplot2

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

The ggplot2 package is a widely-used and well-supported system for creating eye-catching graphics in R.  In this interactive seminar, you will learn the underlying grammar of graphics that forms the philosophical framework of ggplot2, giving you the power to create publication-quality figures intuitively.  The workshop is interactive, in which attendees are encouraged to participate in...

Free

Running Applications on the Hoffman2 Cluster: Case Studies

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 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...

Free

Using Jupyter with Hoffman2 and HPC Systems

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 plotting tools and magics, followed by demonstrations of how to make interactive widgets for interactive visualizations and dashboards and how to generate analysis pipelines and reports. Basic familiarity...

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Decomposing Interactions in R

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

In regression, we are often interested in an interaction, which is the modification of the effect of an independent variable by another. Interactions can be decomposed in three ways, by 1) testing each effect against zero, 2) testing differences among effects, and 3) graphing. This workshop will demonstrate how to do all three analyses in...

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Introduction to Programming in Go

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

This short course will cover the basics of the Go language for those who already are familiar with an imperative programming environment like Python. The Go programming language (golang) is a simple, high-performance imperative programming language. It has the benefits of a strongly typed, compiled language along with many of the benefits of popular scripting...

Free

Making PDFs Accessible the Easy Way

Disabilities and Computing Program
Learning Lab Rolfe Hall 2118 Rolfe Hall, Los Angeles, CA, United States

REGISTER NOW PDF is one of the most common document formats at UCLA. 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 PDF documents created are completely inaccessible or frustrating for screenreader users. Public PDFs posted on websites, PDF course...

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. Hoffman2 cluster serves a wide spectrum of user applications and is almost always heavily loaded. We will first review the model and policy of Hoffman2's job scheduling, followed by fundamentals of using its job scheduler, Univa Grid Engine. A number of common use cases...

Free

Logistic Regression in Stata

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

This workshop will help increase your skills in using logistic regression analysis with Stata.  The workshop does not teach logistic regression, per se, but focuses on how to perform logistic regression analyses and interpret the results using Stata.  It is assumed that you are familiar with logistic regression and Stata. This workshop will not be...

Free

CESMII/UCLA Presentation Series: Microsoft SQL Server Presentation (Live) on Windows Platform

Prakashan Korambath
IDRE Visualization Portal, Math Sciences Building 5628 520 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United States

In this presentation we will demo how to deploy Microsoft SQL Server on a Windows Platform, how to create relational database, tables, how to query them through command line TSQL commands.  If you are interested in learning MS SQL Database please attend the presentation.  This will be a live presentation and discussion. NO RSVP necessary,...

Multiple Imputation in Stata

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

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, we will focus on the one of the most popular methods, multiple imputation and how to perform it in Stata. The Stata code for this seminar is...

Free

Accessibility Basics Training

Disabilities and Computing Program
IDRE Portal 5628 Math Sciences Building, 520 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Register Now 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 inaccessible or just frustrating for screenreader users. Learn accessible design and content management tools to make it easier for people with disabilities to...

GIS & Python

Institute for Digital Research and Education
Research Commons (RC) Classroom 11630F Young Research Library, 280 Charles E Young Drive North, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Register Here The Python for GIS Workshop will cover how to use open-source Geospatial Python libraries. Topics included are: how to clean geospatial data with Python, converting files, and automating geoprocessing tasks with Python. If you have questions regarding the workshop, please contact the instructor Albert Kochaphum.

Making PDFs the Easy Way

Disabilities and Computing Program
Learning Lab Rolfe Hall 2118 Rolfe Hall, Los Angeles, CA, United States

REGISTER NOW PDF is one of the most common document formats at UCLA. 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 PDF documents created are completely inaccessible or frustrating for screenreader users. Public PDFs posted on websites, PDF course...

XSEDE HPC Workshop – Summer Boot Camp

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

UCLA-IDRE along with XSEDE and Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center is pleased to announce the following four day Summer Boot Camp on High Performance Computing: Event: XSEDE HPC Workshop - Summer Boot Camp When: June 3-6, 2019, 8 AM-2 PM PDT each day Where: 5628 Math Sciences Building, UCLA For details and registration: https://www.psc.edu/hpc-workshop-series/summer-bootcamp-2019 This 4-day event will include MPI, OpenMP,...

Accessibility Basics Training Webinar

Disabilities and Computing Program
Zoom

Register Now 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 inaccessible or just frustrating for screenreader users. Learn accessible design and content management tools to make it easier for people with disabilities to...

Decomposing Interactions in R (Part II)

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

Description This is the second part of the seminar on decomposing interactions in R. Methods of decomposing continuous-by-categorical and categorical-by-categorical interactions will be reinforced with hands-on exercises. Requirements A laptop with R installed is required for the hands-on exercises; and prior attendance of the first part of the seminar is recommended but not required. Download...

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Petascale Computing Institute

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

UCLA-IDRE, in partnership with Blue Waters, is pleased to virtually host 2019 Petascale Computing Institute at UCLA: When: August 19-23, 2019 (8 AM-3 PM PDT each day) Where: 5628 Math Sciences Bldg. Contact: T.V. Singh The goal of the institute is to enable computational and data-enabled discovery in all fields of study by teaching the...

Accessibility Basics Training Webinar

Disabilities and Computing Program

Register Now 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 inaccessible or just frustrating for screenreader users. Learn accessible design and content management tools to make it easier for people with disabilities to...

Accessibility Basics Training Webinar

Disabilities and Computing Program

Register Now 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 inaccessible or just frustrating for screenreader users. Learn accessible design and content management tools to make it easier for people with disabilities to...

Universal Design for Learning and Inclusive Instruction

Disabilities and Computing Program
IDRE Portal 5628 Math Sciences Building, 520 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United States

REGISTER HERE 16% of UCLA undergraduate students have a disability. Help empower this growing population through accessible curriculum design and web content. In this session, you will learn the challenges for people with disabilities, understand the impact of assistive technology and screenreading software to “read text out loud”, and receive hands-on experience building an accessible document....

Stats Camp @ UCLA

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

The IDRE Statistical Consulting Group is excited to present two new statistical analysis training seminars from our partners at Stats Camp, which will be held here at UCLA from September 30 to October 2, 2019. Take advantage of this opportunity to build your data analysis skillset and to discuss your own research with two world-renowned experts! The...

Job Scheduling on Hoffman2 Cluster

Institute for Digital Research and Education
IDRE Visualization Portal, Math Sciences Building 5628 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 model and policy of Hoffman2’s job scheduling, followed by fundamentals of using its job scheduler, Univa Grid Engine. A number of common use cases will...

Free

Introduction to R

UCLA IDRE Statistical Consulting
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 class will have a hands-on experience using R for doing statistics, graphics, and data management. The class notes are the scripts for the class. The...

Free

PowerShell Scripting on Windows 10

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

Learning PowerShell scripting is essential if you want to create virtual images or Docker containers on a Windows environment. In this demo you will be introduced to PowerShell scripting so that you can execute command line instructions similar to a bash environment in Linux. Learn more about PowerShell. If you have questions regarding the workshop,...

Free

Version Control with Git

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

Git is a software tool that helps users manage changes to their software over time. Git will allow you to maintain a complete change history of every file, create branches for concurrent streams of changes, trace changes with annotations, and collaborate and share work with others. This interactive introduction will demonstrate how to use Git...

Free

Introduction to SAS

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

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 do not contain any of...

Free

Running Applications on Hoffman2 – Part I

Institute for Digital Research and Education
IDRE Visualization Portal, Math Sciences Building 5628 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 introduce users to the Hoffman2 cluster environment and to clarify the process of porting applications or using applications already available on the cluster. It also addresses how to port your workflow to the Hoffman2 and how to...

Free

Introduction to Stata

UCLA IDRE Statistical Consulting
CLICC Classroom A 10740 Dickson Court, Los Angeles, CA, United States

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 are the scripts for...

Free

Intro to GIS: Getting started with spatial research

Institute for Digital Research and Education
IDRE Visualization Portal, Math Sciences Building 5628 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 ubiquitous. But how do you get started? The answer to this question largely depends on what you want to map, and how you want to create your map. The what is...

Free

Introduction to SPSS

UCLA IDRE Statistical Consulting
YRL Research Commons Classroom (Room 11630F) 280 Charles E Young Dr N, Los Angeles, CA, United States

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...

Free

Learning Machine Learning with Kaggle Challenges: Introduction

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

In Fall 2019, IDRE RTG will offer a series of classes on machine learning to the campus. The objective of the series is to present overviews to the exciting machine learning techniques and to provide a practical guide for general audience to step into the field. This series is primarily appropriate for the beginners who...

Free

Running Applications on Hoffman2 – Part II

Institute for Digital Research and Education
IDRE Visualization Portal, Math Sciences Building 5628 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 introduce users to the Hoffman2 cluster environment and to clarify the process of porting applications or using applications already available on the cluster. It also addresses how to port your workflow to the Hoffman2 and how 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 inaccessible or just frustrating for screenreader users. Learn accessible design and content management tools to make it easier for people with disabilities to engage with...

Introduction to Jupyter

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

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 powerful tool that allows users to combine live code, text, and visualizations in an interactive, shareable, reproducible document. It has been growing in popularity in...

Free

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