Past Events
Event Status
Scheduled
Jan. 10, 1 to 4 p.m.
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. Registration will open on Wednesday, December 4th at 12:00pm.
Event Status
Scheduled
Dec. 4, 2024, 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
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.
Event Status
Scheduled
Nov. 20, 2024, 4 to 5 p.m.
Scholars Lab PCL
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.
Event Status
Scheduled
Nov. 20, 2024, noon to 5 p.m.
Scholars Lab PCL
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.
Event Status
Scheduled
Nov. 15, 2024, 9 to 10 a.m.
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.
Event Status
Scheduled
Nov. 13, 2024, 9 to 10 a.m.
FNT 1.104
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.
Event Status
Scheduled
Nov. 8, 2024, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
FNT 1.104
Learn more about using UNIX/Linux from the command line. Topics will build on those in the introductory course, including more on the filesystem, the Bash shell, and text processing. The course will emphasize manipulating text using standard Linux utilities and stringing commands together using pipes. 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 6th.
Event Status
Scheduled
Nov. 6, 2024, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
FNT 1.104
Learn the basics of using UNIX from the command line. Introductory topics include manipulating text files using standard UNIX utilities, how to string utilities together, and how to output the results to files.
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 4th.
Event Status
Scheduled
Oct. 21, 2024, 1 to 4 p.m.
Monday, October 21st 1pm-4pm Virtual Only
Event Status
Scheduled
Oct. 14, 2024, 1 to 4 p.m.
Monday, October 14th 1pm-4pm Virtual Only