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Events for June 10 – April 4 – Office of Advanced Research Computing Events for June 10 – April 4 – Office of Advanced Research Computing

Amarel monthly maintenance

Maintenance is usually scheduled for weekdays because it often involves coordination with university facilities teams or external vendors. There may also be times when Amarel must be unavailable due to externally-scheduled data center facilities, power, or telecommunications maintenance. When this happens, we will do our best to avoid adding to a month’s downtime with our … Read More

Introduction to the Geographic Information Systems (GIS) with ArcGIS Online

A Geographic Information System (GIS) can be a very useful tool for your research by incorporating location when exploring questions. In this short, interactive workshop, we will focus on ArcGIS Online basics, explore the interface, add and visualize data. We will explore the analysis tools, hosted feature services, collaboration and sharing. Previous knowledge of geographic … Read More

Intro to GIS with ArcGIS Pro

A Geographic Information System (GIS) can be a very useful tool for your research by incorporating location when exploring questions. In this short, interactive workshop, we will focus on ArcGIS Pro basics, explore the interface, add and visualize data, create a map layout which we can either export as a PDF or share as a … Read More

Basics of Linux Command Line

Register to attend this workshop at the bottom of this page. Zoom link will be emailed after filling out the registration form. Workshop content: This  workshop offers a brief introduction to using the Linux operating system, focusing on command-line operations. The primary objective is to provide beginner-level familiarity with using a Linux system for common research … Read More

Amarel monthly maintenance

Maintenance is usually scheduled for weekdays because it often involves coordination with university facilities teams or external vendors. There may also be times when Amarel must be unavailable due to externally-scheduled data center facilities, power, or telecommunications maintenance. When this happens, we will do our best to avoid adding to a month’s downtime with our … Read More

Introduction to GIS with ArcGIS Pro

A Geographic Information System (GIS) can be a very useful tool for your research by incorporating location when exploring questions. In this short, interactive workshop, we will focus on ArcGIS Pro basics, explore the interface, add and visualize data, create a map layout which we can either export as a PDF or share as a … Read More

Introduction to the Geographic Information Systems (GIS) with ArcGIS Online

A Geographic Information System (GIS) can be a very useful tool for your research by incorporating location when exploring questions. In this short, interactive workshop, we will focus on ArcGIS Online basics, explore the interface, add and visualize data. We will explore the analysis tools, hosted feature services, collaboration and sharing. Previous knowledge of geographic … Read More

Data science basics: introduction to Python

This online workshop will provide a beginning level introduction to computer programming using Python, a popular general-purpose programming language. No prior programming knowledge is required. We will present Python syntax, assigning variables, data types, and conditional statements. We will make use of replit.com, a browser-based tool for coding.

Introduction to GIS with QGIS

A Geographic Information System (GIS) can be a very useful tool for your research by incorporating location when exploring questions. In this short, interactive workshop, we will focus on the open source geographic information system: QGIS3. We will explore the interface, add and visualize data, create a map layout, explore plugins and support. Previous knowledge … Read More

R for data analysis: a tidyverse approach

This session introduces the R statistical software environment, basic methods of data analysis, and the "tidyverse." While R is much more than the tidyverse, the development of the tidyverse packages, led by RStudio, has provided a powerful and connected toolkit to get started using R. Note that graphics and data manipulation are covered in subsequent … Read More