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
- Computational Approaches to Text Preparation and Analysis
- Data Visualization with Tableau
- Data Wrangling with Open Refine
- From Info-Glut to Connected Notes: Obsidian and Digital Note-Taking in Academia
- Introduction to ArcGIS StoryMaps
- Introduction to Digital Exhibits with Omeka-S
- Introduction to Digitization
- Introduction to Twine Games
- Journal Publishing
- LaTeX for Human(ist)s
- Named Entity Recognition
- Network Analysis with Gephi
- Network Visualizations with Gephi
- Open Everything! A Panel on the Whats, Hows, and Ifs of Open Scholarship
- 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
- Visualizing Texts with Voyant Tools
- What Is Digital Scholarship? Panel
DASH (Data Analysis Support Hub)
- Creating High-Impact Figures with Adobe Illustrator
- Data Visualization in R using ggplot2 (2022 Session, 2023 Session)
- Data Visualization with MATLAB
- Getting started with GitHub and GitHub Pages
- Hypothesis Testing and Regression Analysis in R
- Intermediate Python Programming (2021 Session)
- Intermediate Python Programming (2022 Session)
- Introduction to ArcGIS Online
- Introduction to Business Analyst Online
- Introduction to Designing Effective Data Visualizations
- Introduction to GeoSpatial Data
- Introduction to GIS
- Introduction to LaTeX
- Introduction to Machine Learning with Python
- Introduction to Microsoft Excel
- Introduction to Python
- Introduction to Python Programming
- Introduction to R Programming (2020 Workshop, 2021 Workshop, April 2022 Workshop, December 2022 Workshop)
- Introduction to SAS
- Introduction to SPSS (2020 Workshop, 2021 Workshop)
- Machine Learning with R: K-Means Clustering
- Machine Learning with R: Linear Regression
- Machine Learning with R: Logistic Regression
- Machine Learning with R: Random Forest Classification Approach
- Machine Learning with R: SVM Classification
- Making the Move from ArcMap to ArcPro
- Visual Data Analysis with Microsoft Excel
Research Data Management
- Before You Dig: Finding and Reusing Datasets
- 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
- Securely Managing and Publishing Sensitive Data
- 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 are ORCiDs and DOIs–and Why Do I Need Them?
- What You Need to Know about the New Tri-Agency Research Data Management Policy
DS Bytes
- Glitch: Disability, Feminism, Technology
- How to Lie with Data
- The Value of Visuals in Science Communication
- Urban Heat Islands and Social Inequalities: A Data-Driven Story
Coming Soon: - How to Lie with Visualization
- EQ vs IQ: Testing Gendered AI in Apple’s Siri
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
ARL Digital Scholarship Institute
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