Past Events

Join us for a three part training series which covers containerization, version control, and HPC workflows for scientific computing.

Tune in for this workshop to learn the basics of using Python, a popular free and open source scripting language, to process and manage research data.

This workshop will be an introduction to basic concepts and effective utilization of Linux.

This workshop will guide attendees through open source GIS workflows using QGIS's approachable user interface and demonstrate how to replicate those processes programmatically in Python for enhanced reproducibility and efficiency. GIS beginners can expect a well rounded introduction to geospatial data and software, while seasoned users will benefit from techniques for automating their workflows with Python.

This two day workshop will be held from 1pm-4pm on 1/9 and 1/10/2025 in the Perry-Castañeda Library Scholars Lab. The UT Libraries and UT-OSPO will provide a thorough introduction to using Python in research and introduce attendees to the process of sharing code through GitHub. Workshop materials are available by following the title link above.

This course introduces both principles and practice of scientific data visualization, especially as applied to large multivariate data sets. Will cover common methods of visually summarizing data and illustrating relationships between variables of various common types (continuous, categorical, etc.) as well as design concepts for increasing the clarity of quantitative graphical communication. This training is relevant to open source software creators and users and is offered by a UT affiliate. Cost is $50 and course closes November 24th.

The proposal submission deadline for the UT GIS Day Student Poster Session has been extended to Friday, November 8th, at 11:59 p.m. Prizes include $200 for first place, $150 for second, and $100 for third.

Join the UT Austin community in recognizing GIS Day 2024 on Wednesday, November 20th in the Scholars Lab in PCL! GIS Day is an internationally acknowledged annual event held each November on the Wednesday of Geography Awareness week. It is a day dedicated to appreciating, discussing, and learning about GIS (geographic information system) technology and all that it enables.

This course will introduce the fundamentals of programming in R. Will touch on base R and R Markdown but will mostly focus on the Tidyverse ecosystem. Topics include data types, functions, coding etiquette, reading/writing files and basic data manipulation. This training is relevant to open source software creators and users and is offered by a UT affiliate. Cost is $50 and course closes November 12th.

This course will cover advanced topics in writing Bash shell scripts, providing tips, examples and best practices for creating robust “pipeline scripts” that execute multiple processing steps. This training is relevant to open source software creators and users and is offered by a UT affiliate. Cost is $50 and course closes November 11th.