UC Carpentries: Core Elements of Citable and Discoverable Research Software
Learn practical steps for making research software citable, discoverable, and reusable. Working in your browser with a GitHub repository, you will add an open-source license, create a CITATION.cff file, make ...
Find out more »Introduction to Digital Accessibility Testing
Audience: UCLA web editors, content creators, IT staff, and program managers Tools Covered: WAVE Chrome plug-in, Siteimprove Accessibility, manual keyboard testing By the end of this training, participants will: -Understand ...
Find out more »Introduction to Siteimprove Accessibility Software Part 1
This training introduces participants to Siteimprove, UCLA’s automated accessibility evaluation platform. Attendees will learn how to navigate the main accessibility dashboard, review accessibility issues across their websites, and use the ...
Find out more »Learning Neural Network
Neural networks are the "beating heart" of modern LLM-based AI systems, driving everything from image recognition to natural language processing. In this 2-hour lecture, we'll explore the foundational concepts of ...
Find out more »Introduction to Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs)
This workshop introduces physics-informed neural networks (PINNs), a machine-learning approach that can complement or provide an alternative to traditional scientific computing methods such as finite difference, finite volume, and finite ...
Find out more »Disability Culture and Allyship
This session is part of the greater UCLA Disability Pride Week running from Oct 12-16. This session introduces participants to disability culture and the role of allyship in creating more ...
Find out more »Docker Containerization for Reproducible Scientific Computing
Installing and managing scientific software and its dependencies can be challenging in both local and high-performance computing environments. Container technologies such as Docker, Podman, and Apptainer help address these challenges ...
Find out more »Introduction to Digital Accessibility Testing
This session introduces the fundamentals of digital accessibility and why it matters at UCLA. Participants will learn what accessibility means in a digital context, gain insight into disability culture, and ...
Find out more »Siteimprove Accessibility Software Part 2
In this more advanced session participants will learn about the issues dashboard and how to both interpret results and prioritize issues. This session will also cover how to best use ...
Find out more »Data Visualization with Python I: Plotting Fundamentals
Python is a very popular language for computational and data science, and it has many powerful capabilities for visualizing data in the pursuit of understanding and conveying underlying patterns. The ...
Find out more »Introduction to Survival Analysis in R
Survival analysis models time-to-event outcomes. This workshop introduces usage of the survival package in R for some of the most commonly used survival methods. Topics include data setup, Kaplan-Meier estimates ...
Find out more »Introduction to Document Accessibility (Google docs, Word, PDF)
This session provides an introduction to creating accessible documents in Google Docs, Microsoft Word, and PDFs. Participants will learn the fundamentals of digital accessibility, including how to use proper heading ...
Find out more »Data Visualization with Python II: Making Interactive Plots and Dashboards
A static figure answers the question you chose in advance, while an interactive one lets readers explore the data and ask their own: zooming into a region, filtering to a ...
Find out more »Introduction to directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) for causal inference in R
Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs) have emerged as an important tool in causal modeling to understand the relationships among variables. DAGs can inform what variables should be included or excluded in ...
Find out more »Introduction to Video, Audio, and Youtube Accessibility
In this session participants will learn about video and audio accessibility best practices. By the end of this training you should be able to: -Create an WCAG 2.1 AA caption ...
Find out more »A Satellite Analysis Reveals Why Structures Burn While Neighbors Survive Disaster
In this workshop you will learn how to develop image processing workflows in AWS using generative AI services.
Find out more »Generalized Linear Regression Models in R
This workshop introduces the generalized linear regression model, which extends the linear regression model to accommodate outcomes with different distributions. The workshop briefly reviews linear regression concepts as necessary, and ...
Find out more »Introduction to Digital Accessibility Testing
Audience: UCLA web editors, content creators, IT staff, and program managers Tools Covered: WAVE Chrome plug-in, Siteimprove Accessibility, manual keyboard testing By the end of this training, participants will: -Understand ...
Find out more »Learn prompt engineering and Retrieval Augmented Generation using LLMs
In this workshop you will how to use LLMs and RAG in concert with prompt engineering to build purpose-driven AI productivity tools
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