Online Learning

New skills are just a click away. These workshop recordings and online modules will teach you about data analysis, digital scholarship, innovative software, and more.

Do More with Digital Scholarship

• Building Digital Exhibits: A Roundtable Celebrating the Launch of Omeka S at McMaster
• Data Visualization with Tableau
• Data Wrangling with Open Refine
• Introduction to ArcGIS StoryMaps
• Introduction to Digital Exhibits with Omeka-S
• Introduction to Digitization
• Journal Publishing
• LaTeX for Human(ist)s
• Named Entity Recognition
• Network Analysis with Gephi
• Podcasts: A New Way to Mobilize Your Knowledge
• Predatory Publishing: Reducing the Odds of Falling Prey
• Pre-Processing Digitized Texts
• Roundtable on Digital Scholarship
• Social Media Research Ethics 1 – Preliminary Considerations
• Social Media Research Ethics 2 – Project Design
• Social Media Research Ethics Roundtable – Power and Provocations
• Textual Analysis with Voyant
• Version Control with Git

DASH (Data Analysis Support Hub)

• Creating High-Impact Figures with Adobe Illustrator
• Data Visualization in R using ggplot2
• Getting started with GitHub and GitHub Pages
• Hypothesis Testing and Regression Analysis in R
• Intermediate Python Programming
• Introduction to ArcGIS Online
• Introduction to Business Analyst Online
• Introduction to Designing Effective Data Visualizations
• Introduction to GIS
• Introduction to LaTeX
• Introduction to Microsoft Excel
• Introduction to Python
• Introduction to R Programming (2020 Workshop, 2021 Workshop, 2022 Workshop)
• Introduction to SAS
• Introduction to SPSS (2020 Workshop, 2021 Workshop)

Research Data Management

• Best Practices for Managing Data in your Research
• Building a Data Management Plan for your Research Project
• Data Privacy Best Practices
• Depositing and Sharing Data on McMaster Dataverse
• Essentials of Open Data Sharing
• Organize Your Research Projects with the Open Science Framework
• Set Yourself up for Research Success: Manage your Data like a Pro, and Get your own ORCiD Profile
• Strategies for Research Data Storage and Backup
• What You Need to Know about the New Tri-Agency Research Data Management Policy

Relevant Research

• Design Principles for Data Visualization
• Feminist Data Workshop
• Research Beyond Academia
• Telling Data-Driven Stories: Lessons from data journalism
• Transcending Mental Models

Software Freedom Series

• Digital Networking and You
• Maintaining Your Digital Privacy

ARL Digital Scholarship Institute

• Getting Started with Text Preparation and Analysis

LibGuides

• A Guide to Data and Statistical Sources from Statistics Canada
• Business Data and Statistics
• Data Visualization
• GIS and GeoSpatial Data
• Research Data Management

Special Events

• Science Communication and Digital Scholarship: A SCDS Graduate Resident Panel
• Exploring Barriers to Misinformation Interventions in Public Libraries: A Special Guest Lecture by Abeer Siddiqui
• Content Creators, Digital Labour, and Online Identities: A SCDS Graduate Resident Panel
• Looking Back to Go Forward: Histories of Oppositional Feminist Politics and the Internet: A Special Guest Lecture by Dr. Jessalynn Keller
• Digital Tools in the Humanities and Social Sciences: A Research Roundtable