Past Events
- Wed, 02/12/2025 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location: Online
Quarto is a publication tool built into the RStudio multilanguage data analysis and visualization platform, often used in conjunction with code notebooks. Quarto enables a more reproducible approach to data-driven research by integrating documentation, code, and results in one document. But it’s also a great publication platform on its own! In this session, a panel of Quarto users will showcase what Quarto is capable of, especially when used in concert with GitHub Pages...
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- Wed, 02/12/2025 - 10:00am to 11:00am
Location: Online
Join us for practical tips on qualitative data de-identification and strategies to tackle the unique challenges researchers face when working with human subject data. This session will feature QualiAnon, an open-source tool designed to help researchers securely anonymize and pseudonymize sensitive qualitative data with precision and flexibility. Unlike automated tools that rely on blind substitutions, QualiAnon gives you full control over how and when data is anonymized,...
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- Tue, 02/11/2025 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Location: Makerspace
Join us for a guided tutorial where you will learn to 3D model in Autodesk Fusion. You will be able to send your models directly to our 3D printers and later pick up your one-of-a-kind design. No experience needed!
Register now to save your spot!
- Mon, 02/10/2025 - 2:00pm to 3:00pm
Location: Online
APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) serve as powerful tools for accessing and interacting with data in a structured and automated manner, providing capabilities far beyond what is possible through traditional interfaces. Despite their ubiquity in software development, APIs remain underutilized in humanities research, where they offer immense potential for innovative data collection and analysis. In this session, we’ll demystify APIs and showcase their potential through...
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- Thu, 02/06/2025 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Location: Makerspace
Join us for a hands-on journey into the world of laser cutting, where you'll learn how to turn your digital design ideas into physical objects. We will provide template designs available for you to customize so that you get to experience the process from start to finish. No experience needed!
Register now to save your spot!
- Thu, 02/06/2025 - 4:30pm to 5:30pm
Location: Fish Bowl
In partnership with UCSB Reads, join UCSB Health & Wellness for a 3-week series exploring The Book of Delights, by Ross Gay through three engaging creative projects!
Week 1: Journaling Like Ross
1/23/2025 4:30pm-5:30pm
Kick off your own "book of delights" with a free journal...
- Wed, 02/05/2025 - 1:00pm to 4:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
Do you enjoy working on data science but not installing the software environment? Do you have nightmares about software library dependencies? Is your laptop slowing you down and want to use a more powerful remote server or cloud platform? In this workshop, we will show a reproducible and user-friendly approach to creating research environments using development containers. You will learn how to use Visual Studio Code to create containerized R and/or Python environments,...
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- Wed, 02/05/2025 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
The UCSB Library is offering a workshop for graduate students on managing professional identities online. This workshop is designed to teach students and early career professionals about researcher profiles (e.g. ORCID), communicating research impact, and curating professional profiles online on personal portfolio sites or institutional ones.
In this workshop we will cover:...
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- Tue, 02/04/2025 - 4:00pm
Location: Pacific View Room
Please note that registration for this event is currently full.
UCSB Library is pleased to present Haewon Jeong (Electrical and Computer Engineering) in the Pacific Views: Library Speaker Series for Winter 2025.
In her talk "Ethical AI: Serving Humanity or Falling Short?", Jeong will explore the ethical considerations surrounding the development and deployment of AI...
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- Tue, 02/04/2025 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 2509
Join us for this 1-hour seminar on Research Computing resources at UCSB, designed for researchers tackling complex projects that exceed their laptop's capabilities. This session will cover fundamental computing concepts (CPU, GPU, RAM, hard drive), what computer clusters are, and clarify what these mean for your research. Explore the full compute spectrum, from laptops to high-performance clusters, and discover campus and national resources available to optimize your workflows...
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- Mon, 02/03/2025 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Location: Makerspace
Join us for a hands-on workshop where we'll walk you through a simple sewing project. Learn the basics of using a sewing machine and following a simple pattern.
Register now to save your spot!
- Mon, 02/03/2025 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 2509
Join us for this 1-hour seminar on Research Computing resources at UCSB, designed for researchers tackling complex projects that exceed their laptop's capabilities. This session will cover fundamental computing concepts (CPU, GPU, RAM, hard drive), what computer clusters are, and clarify what these mean for your research. Explore the full compute spectrum, from laptops to high-performance clusters, and discover campus and national resources available to optimize your workflows...
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- Thu, 01/23/2025 - 1:30pm to 4:30pm
- Fri, 01/24/2025 - 1:30pm to 4:30pm
- Thu, 01/30/2025 - 1:30pm to 4:30pm
- Fri, 01/31/2025 - 1:30pm to 4:30pm
Location: Instruction & Training 2509
This workshop covers the fundamentals of working with raster and vector geospatial data in R. Participants will learn to plot and analyze raster data, change projections, perform raster math, and work with multi-band rasters. The workshop also explores vector data, including points, lines, and polygons, and demonstrates how to combine multiple layers in a single map. Additionally, participants will work with time series rasters and compute summary statistics from this data....
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- Fri, 01/31/2025 - 1:00pm to 2:30pm
Location: Makerspace
Join us for a guided electronics project! We will discover the basics of wiring a circuit and show how you can use electronic components to create your ideas. All materials will be provided.
Register now to save your spot!
- Thu, 01/30/2025 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Location: Makerspace
Join us for a guided tutorial where you will learn to 3D model in Autodesk Fusion. You will be able to send your models directly to our 3D printers and later pick up your one-of-a-kind design. No experience needed!
Register now to save your spot!
- Thu, 01/30/2025 - 4:30pm to 5:30pm
Location: Fish Bowl
In partnership with UCSB Reads, join UCSB Health & Wellness for a 3-week series exploring The Book of Delights, by Ross Gay through three engaging creative projects!
Week 1: Journaling Like Ross
1/23/2025 4:30pm-5:30pm
Kick off your own "book of delights" with a free journal...
- Thu, 01/23/2025 - 1:30pm to 4:30pm
- Fri, 01/24/2025 - 1:30pm to 4:30pm
- Thu, 01/30/2025 - 1:30pm to 4:30pm
- Fri, 01/31/2025 - 1:30pm to 4:30pm
Location: Instruction & Training 2509
This workshop covers the fundamentals of working with raster and vector geospatial data in R. Participants will learn to plot and analyze raster data, change projections, perform raster math, and work with multi-band rasters. The workshop also explores vector data, including points, lines, and polygons, and demonstrates how to combine multiple layers in a single map. Additionally, participants will work with time series rasters and compute summary statistics from this data....
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- Wed, 01/29/2025 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Location: Fish Bowl
In celebration of the 2025 UCSB Reads book, The Book of Delights: Essays by Ross Gay, the Library invites you to create zines that capture moments of joy. Join us for a free art making workshop where you can share what brings you delight. Participants will learn how to make a zine and collage together a collection of found images.
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- Tue, 01/28/2025 - 5:15pm to 6:45pm
Location: Makerspace
Join us for a hands-on workshop where we'll walk you through a simple sewing project. Learn the basics of using a sewing machine and following a simple pattern.
Register now to save your spot!
- Thu, 01/23/2025 - 1:30pm to 4:30pm
- Fri, 01/24/2025 - 1:30pm to 4:30pm
- Thu, 01/30/2025 - 1:30pm to 4:30pm
- Fri, 01/31/2025 - 1:30pm to 4:30pm
Location: Instruction & Training 2509
This workshop covers the fundamentals of working with raster and vector geospatial data in R. Participants will learn to plot and analyze raster data, change projections, perform raster math, and work with multi-band rasters. The workshop also explores vector data, including points, lines, and polygons, and demonstrates how to combine multiple layers in a single map. Additionally, participants will work with time series rasters and compute summary statistics from this data....
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- Fri, 01/24/2025 - 12:00pm to 1:15pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
Lunch & Learn is a quarterly series that features two graduate students, one from a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) and one from a SHEF discipline (Social Sciences, Humanities, Education and Fine Arts). Each presenter is able to share a 15 minute talk on any topic they want in a moderated, low stakes environment to their peers in the graduate student body.
Lunch & Learns are on Fridays during the year, and best of all, FREE LUNCH IS...
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- Thu, 01/23/2025 - 4:30pm to 5:30pm
Location: Fish Bowl
In partnership with UCSB Reads, join UCSB Health & Wellness for a 3-week series exploring The Book of Delights, by Ross Gay through three engaging creative projects!
Week 1: Journaling Like Ross
1/23/2025 4:30pm-5:30pm
- Kick off your...
- Thu, 01/23/2025 - 1:30pm to 4:30pm
- Fri, 01/24/2025 - 1:30pm to 4:30pm
- Thu, 01/30/2025 - 1:30pm to 4:30pm
- Fri, 01/31/2025 - 1:30pm to 4:30pm
Location: Instruction & Training 2509
This workshop covers the fundamentals of working with raster and vector geospatial data in R. Participants will learn to plot and analyze raster data, change projections, perform raster math, and work with multi-band rasters. The workshop also explores vector data, including points, lines, and polygons, and demonstrates how to combine multiple layers in a single map. Additionally, participants will work with time series rasters and compute summary statistics from this data....
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- Wed, 01/22/2025 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Location: Makerspace
Join us for a hands-on journey into the world of laser cutting, where you'll learn how to turn your digital design ideas into physical objects. We will provide template designs available for you to customize so that you get to experience the process from start to finish. No experience needed!
Register now to save your spot!
