Fall 2023 Workshops
We also offer workshops on demand, so you and your colleagues can request a particular workshop and we'll do our best to arrange it for you.
Introduction to Python
Date and Time: Monday, October 23, 2023 from 6pm – 8pm ET
Location: Hybrid (Zoom and in-person in CDRS MN 3230)
Presenters: U of T Coders
Description: This is a very basic introduction to the Python programming language. The lesson will be in a code-along format and is suitable for new coders or those needing refreshers. We will be walking through the lesson content together using a Jupyter notebook. We highly recommend installing Jupyter lab through Anaconda for this lesson.
We will cover:
- Math, calculations with integers and floats
- Variables
- Lists, tuples and dicts
- Importing libraries
- Function declaration
- Conditionals (e.g., if-else) and for loops
- Brief Numpy, Pandas, and Seaborn
Introduction to R
Date and Time: Monday, November 6, 2023 from 5:30pm – 7:30pm ET
Location: Hybrid (Zoom and in-person in CDRS MN 3230)
Presenters: U of T Coders
Description: This is a very basic introduction to the R programming language with a particular focus on the dplyr and ggplot packages. Instead of covering more advanced statistical methods, this lesson aims to provide an understanding of fundamental data manipulation and visualization operations in R.
The lesson covers the R/RStudio interface and R Notebooks, objects and functions, data frames, the dplyr package, reading and writing files in R, introductory plotting with ggplot2, and knitting Rmd files.
Visit this page for information about downloading R, RStudio, and installing specific R packages needed for the lesson.
Introduction to Zotero
Date and Time: Tuesday, November 14, 2023 from 12 pm – 1pm ET
Location: Zoom (details to be emailed one day before the workshop)
Presenters: UTM Library
Description: Gathering and organizing citations of earlier published research can take up a large amount of your time as a graduate student. Using a bibliographic management tool can allow you to quickly save and organize your citations (ex. articles, books, websites, social media, etc) into project folders that are easily accessible from both your computer and the cloud. They can also help you automatically generate in-text citations and a bibliography from your collection of references in your choice of citation style. This session will provide an overview and demonstration of Zotero, a free and open sourced citation management software.
Introduction to Mendeley
Date and Time: Wednesday, November 15, 2023 from 12 – 1pm ET
Location: Zoom (details to be emailed one day before the workshop)
Presenters: UTM Library
Description: Gathering and organizing citations of earlier published research can take up a large amount of your time as a graduate student. Using a bibliographic management tool can allow you to quickly save and organize your citations (ex. articles, books, websites, social media, etc) into project folders that are easily accessible from both your computer and the cloud. They can also help you automatically generate in-text citations and a bibliography from your collection of references in your choice of citation style. This session will provide an overview and demonstration of Mendeley citation management software.
Software Engineering in the age of ChatGPT
Date and Time: Wednesday, November 22, 2023 from 4pm – 6pm ET
Location: Hybrid (Zoom and in-person in CDRS MN 3230)
Presenters: U of T Coders
Description: CANCELLED
Winter 2023 Workshops
Effective and Equitable Teaching and Communications
Date and Time: Wednesday, January 10th from 12pm – 1:30 pm
Location: TBA
Presenters: TATP x EDIO
Description: Coming Soon