UC Carpentries Day 1: Tidy Data
Organize messy spreadsheets into analysis-ready tables and avoid common formatting traps. You’ll learn tidy data principles, dates-as-data, basic QA/QC, and how to export clean files.
Find out more »UC Carpentries Day 1: Tidy Data
Organize messy spreadsheets into analysis-ready tables and avoid common formatting traps. You’ll learn tidy data principles, dates-as-data, basic QA/QC, and how to export clean files.
Find out more »Survey Data Analysis with R
This workshop will show how descriptive analyses, both numerical and graphical, can be done with continuous and categorical variables. Subpopulation analysis will be discussed and then examples of OLS regression ...
Find out more »UC Carpentries Day 2: Data Cleaning with OpenRefine
Clean and transform tabular data reproducibly without writing code. You’ll use faceting, filtering, clustering, and GREL transformations to fix inconsistencies and export results.
Find out more »UC Carpentries Day 2: Data Cleaning with OpenRefine
Clean and transform tabular data reproducibly without writing code. You’ll use faceting, filtering, clustering, and GREL transformations to fix inconsistencies and export results.
Find out more »UC Carpentries Day 3: Command Line & Unix Shell
Use the command line to navigate folders, combine commands, and automate simple tasks. You’ll practice working with files, pipes and filters, loops, and basic shell scripts.
Find out more »UC Carpentries Day 4: Version Control with Git
Track changes to your work and collaborate confidently with Git and GitHub. You’ll record commits, inspect history, undo mistakes, and work with remotes and pull requests.
Find out more »UC Carpentries Day 4: Databases & SQL
Query structured data with SQL to filter, join, and summarize tables. You’ll select and filter rows, calculate new columns, aggregate results, and combine datasets.
Find out more »UC Carpentries Day 6: Python Part 1
Start writing Python for data work in Jupyter. You’ll run code, use variables and types, call built-ins, and control flow with conditionals and loops.
Find out more »UC Carpentries Day 7: Python Part 2
Work efficiently with data in Python using libraries. You’ll write functions, load tabular data into pandas DataFrames, explore, and plot results.
Find out more »UC Carpentries Day 8: Introduction to R Part 1
Get started with R and RStudio for data analysis. You’ll organize a project, use R objects and data structures, and explore data frames.
Find out more »UC Carpentries Day 9: Introduction to R Part 2
Transform and visualize data in R. You’ll manipulate tables with dplyr, make graphics with ggplot2, and generate reports with knitr.
Find out more »Digital Accessibility Basics
This interactive 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, ...
Find out more »UCLA Open Source Program Office Meetup
Join the UCLA Open Source Program Office and the UC OSPO Network for a lunch-and-learn meetup on September 30. Whether you’re an experienced contributor or just curious, you’ll have the ...
Find out more »Getting Started with the Hoffman2 Cluster — HPC@UCLA Workshop 1 of 5
This introductory workshop is designed for UCLA researchers who are new to the Hoffman2 Cluster. Participants will learn how to request an account, connect to the cluster via SSH/remote desktop, ...
Find out more »Introduction to Digital Accessibility Testing
Audience: UCLA web editors, content creators, IT staff, and program managersTools Covered: WAVE Chrome plug-in, Siteimprove Accessibility, manual keyboard testing By the end of this training, participants will: Understand the ...
Find out more »Spatial Research and the ESRI Ecosystem at UCLA
ESRI is a leading industry provider of geospatial tools and research, featuring a wide variety of products from AI enhanced analysis to web-publishing solutions for classroom projects. The sheer number ...
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Frontiers in Computational Biosciences Seminar Series: Genevieve Konopka, PhD, Professor & Chair, Department of Neurobiology, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine
TITLE: “Cell type-specific transcriptional networks in brain evolution and disease”
Find out more »From Polygons to Presence: Crafting 3D Assets for Immersive Research Experiences
Academic researchers across disciplines—from archaeology and medicine to data science and the digital humanities—increasingly need to create, manipulate, and display three-dimensional models. Whether reconstructing historical sites, visualizing complex protein structures, ...
Find out more »Getting Started with PubMed
PubMed is your first stop for finding information in the health sciences. This workshop will introduce the basics of PubMed and how to turn your idea into search results.
Find out more »Introduction to Web of Science
Looking to shorten the time you spend searching for scientific literature? Give Web of Science a try! This introductory workshop will get you started searching in Web of Science, a ...
Find out more »Command Line in 60 Minutes
Use the command line to navigate folders, combine commands, and automate simple tasks. You’ll practice working with files, pipes and filters, loops, and basic shell scripts.
Find out more »Foundations for Sustainable Research Software
Part of the series: From Scripts to Software: Practical Python for Reproducible Research This hands-on workshop will introduce you to the principles of modern software development and show you how ...
Find out more »Introduction to Siteimprove Accessibility Software
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 ...
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Frontiers in Computational Biosciences Seminar Series: Yuzhe Yang, PhD, Assistant Professor, Computational Medicine & Computer Science, UCLA
TITLE: “Multisensory AI for Personalized Healthcare”
Find out more »AWS HealthOmics at UCLA: Enabling Scalable Genomic and Health Data Analysis
Join representatives from AWS and UCLA Health IT as they introduce AWS HealthOmics, a managed service for storing, processing, and analyzing genomic and other health data at scale. This session ...
Find out more »Planning and Organizing a Systematic Review
This workshop will offer an overview on the entire systematic review process - from hypothesis to publication, and why it takes so long to conduct one! Attendees will leave with ...
Find out more »Navigating the Cluster & Running Jobs Interactively — HPC@UCLA Workshop 2 of 5
This hands-on session introduces participants to the layout and usage of the Hoffman2 Cluster environment. Attendees will learn how to navigate the file system, load software modules, and run interactive ...
Find out more »Planning and Organizing a Literature Review
Are you interested in writing a review article? Have you been assigned a literature review on a topic, but aren’t sure where to start? This workshop will walk you through ...
Find out more »Disability Culture and Allyship
This session is part of the greater UCLA Disability Pride Week running from Oct 14-17. This session introduces participants to disability culture and the role of allyship in creating more ...
Find out more »Scaling Your Science with Parallel Computing
Part of the series: From Scripts to Software: Practical Python for Reproducible Research Now that you have a solid foundation in writing sustainable and object-oriented Python code, we will explore ...
Find out more »Disability in Sport with Guest Lecturer Paralympian Sam McIntosh
Join us for a session on disability in sports with guest lecturer Sam McIntosh, Paralympic track athlete. This presentation will explore the history and significance of the Paralympics, the classification ...
Find out more »Learn Prompt Engineering and Retrieval Augmented Generation Using Open-Source LLMs
Do you use LLMs but wish you could improve the results? In this workshop you will learn how to get the most out of LLMs using a step-by-step approach to ...
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Frontiers in Computational Biosciences Seminar Series: Amy Goldberg, PhD, Associate Professor, Human Genetics, UCLA
TITLE: “Evolutionary perspectives on malaria”
Find out more »Getting Started with Overleaf
This workshop will introduce the basics of Overleaf, from creating an account to navigating the functionality and getting started with editing.
Find out more »How to Publish Open Access for Little to No Cost
Are you interested in publishing your scholarly writing so that anyone can read it? Would you like to make your work accessible to the greater research community? Publishing open access ...
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 »Tableau in 60 Minutes: Build and Share a Simple Dashboard
Explore Tableau’s interface and build core chart types from a tidy dataset. You’ll connect data, create views, and publish an interactive dashboard.
Find out more »There’s more to the US Census than meets the eye. Want to learn how you can access and use census data in your research? Join librarians Maggie Tarmey and Kelsey Brown to explore reports, data profiles and datasets on data.census.gov. This lecture-based workshop is designed for researchers of any experience level and will not be recorded. This workshop will be offered via Zoom. If you’re registered, you’ll receive the Zoom invitation information the day before the workshop Led by Maggie Tarmey, librarian for Geography, Maps, and Economics, and Kelsey Brown, librarian for Archaeology, Public Policy and Urban Planning.
Utilizing Census Data in Your Research
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Frontiers in Computational Biosciences Seminar Series: Yosuke Tanigawa, PhD, Assistant Professor, UCLA Engineering
TITLE: “Enhancing polygenic prediction with flexible models on individual-level data”
Find out more »Research Writing with Overleaf: Templates, Bibliographies, and Collaboration
Overleaf is an online LaTeX editor for writing, editing, and publishing documents in a collaborative cloud-based environment. This one-hour workshop is designed for participants with a basic Overleaf familiarity who ...
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W26: Protein Structure with AlphaFold
The goal of the workshop is to enable the participants to submit and rationally evaluate results of the AlphaFold protein structure predictions. The class will cover the basic principles of ...
Find out more »Interactive Computing with Jupyter on the Hoffman2 Cluster – HPC@UCLA Workshop 3 of 5
This workshop guides researchers through running Jupyter Notebooks on the Hoffman2 Cluster for interactive data analysis and computing. Participants will learn how to launch Jupyter via the job scheduler, connect ...
Find out more »Food Studies Resources at the UCLA Library and beyond
Food studies is a growing interdisciplinary field that examines the cultural, economic, political and environmental dimensions of food. Research resources in food studies are equally broad, and can present a ...
Find out more »Top 10 Accessibility Tips with Accessibility Specialist Chris Patterson
Learn practical strategies for building more inclusive websites in this session with Chris Patterson, a web accessibility specialist with over 20 years of experience in digital accessibility and web development. ...
Find out more »Workshop participants will receive an introduction to artists’ books. In this hands-on workshop, participants will have the opportunity to engage with artists’ books from the collection of UCLA Library’s Arts Library. The workshop will provide an overview of the history of artists’ books and also introduce participants to various structures, forms and bindings. Resources for creating artists’ books will also be discussed.
Introduction to Artists' Books
Find out more »Accelerating Your Code with GPUs
Part of the series: From Scripts to Software: Practical Python for Reproducible Research Having learned how to write sustainable, object-oriented code and how to scale it across multiple processors, we ...
Find out more »Numerical Programming with Python, Part I: Crash Course in Fundamentals
Python is a general-purpose programming language that is easy to learn and widely used. It is one of the primary programming languages for data science, and when combined with its ...
Find out more »Designing AI interfaces for Research Mobile Apps
This workshop explores how human-centered UX design can support the integration of AI into research-focused mobile applications. We’ll examine how AI features, such as Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and agentic assistants, ...
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Frontiers in Computational Biosciences Seminar Series: Hooman Allayee, PhD, Professor-in-residence, Medicine, UCLA
TITLE: “System Genetics Studies of Coronary Artery Disease”
Find out more »Introduction to Digital Accessibility Testing
Audience: UCLA web editors, content creators, IT staff, and program managersTools Covered: WAVE Chrome plug-in, Siteimprove Accessibility, manual keyboard testing By the end of this training, participants will: Understand the ...
Find out more »Introduction to Nursing Resources
Introduction to commonly used Nursing resources such as CINAHL, Joanna Briggs Suite, ebooks, etc.
Find out more »Google Cloud Platform: Compute Engine
Cloud computing services enable users to access a wide range of computing resources via the internet. This workshop series is designed to provide academic researchers with practical guidance on leveraging ...
Find out more »Rclone in 60 Minutes: Safe and Fast File Transfer
Move and sync files between your computer and cloud storage with confidence. Learn to create connections, list and transfer files, and use safety flags to protect your data.
Find out more »Learn about the world-class map collection at the UCLA Library and how to incorporate maps in your research. We will discuss how to find and access maps, and then move towards how to read maps critically and discuss the many ways they can be incorporated in research across all disciplines and majors. Researching primary sources like maps can be intimidating, but after this workshop you’ll leave with the skills you need for success. This workshop will be offered via Zoom. If you are registered, you will receive the Zoom invitation details the day before the workshop.
Mapping Your Way to Success: Finding and Using Maps at the UCLA Library
Find out more »Numerical Programming with Python, Part II: NumPy, SciPy, and Pandas
The second part of this hands-on series will introduce you to a few libraries that enable Python to function as a powerful numerical programming language, including NumPy, SciPy, and Pandas. ...
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 ...
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W27: Systems biology of metabolism – workflows and resources for multi-omics data integration
The application of omics (i.e., metabolomics, proteomics, transcriptomics, genomics) has become greatly popular in the life sciences. These technologies unlock the investigation of metabolism across thousands of genes, proteins, and ...
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Frontiers in Computational Biosciences Seminar Series: Jian Zeng, PhD, Group Leader – Centre for Population and Disease Genomics – Institute for Molecular Bioscience The University of Queensland – Australia
TITLE: “Leveraging functional annotations to enhance trait prediction and biological discovery”
Find out more »Applied Survey Data Analysis Using SAS
This workshop will show how descriptive analyses, both numerical and graphical, can be done with continuous and categorical variables. Subpopulation analysis will be discussed, and then examples of OLS regression ...
Find out more »Batch Computing on the Hoffman2 Cluster – HPC@UCLA Workshop 4 of 5
This workshop introduces participants to running batch jobs on the Hoffman2 Cluster using the job scheduler. Attendees will learn how to write and submit batch scripts, request computing resources, monitor ...
Find out more »Introduction to Siteimprove Accessibility Software
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 »Technical Resources at UCLA: Standards and Patents
Ever been curious about what technical standards and patents are? Or how to find them? In this workshop you'll gain an introductory overview to technical standards and patents, as well ...
Find out more »Google Cloud Platform: Cloud Storages
Cloud computing services enable users to access a wide range of computing resources via the internet. This workshop series is designed to provide academic researchers with practical guidance on leveraging ...
Find out more »AIM AHEAD West Hub & Awardee Showcase: Algorithmic Opacity in Opioid Risk Scoring
The National Institutes of Health’s AIM-AHEAD program was established to create mutually beneficial and coordinated partnerships that empower researchers and communities across the United States in developing AI/ML models and ...
Find out more »The Changing Federal Data Landscape: What UCLA Researchers Need to Know – a conversation with data consortium ICPSR director, Dr. Margaret Levenstein
Federal agencies are going through major transitions, and researchers are dealing with changes in data access and documentation. Join Dr. Margaret Levenstein, Director of Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social ...
Find out more »Whether you’re looking to enhance your paper, learn your community’s history, or trace your family tree, primary sources are a vital resource for any researcher looking to engage with the past and present. If you’ve ever been intimidated by archival spaces or had difficulty finding specific sources, UCLA Library is here to help. Join Kelsey Brown and Kate Ridgewell as they guide you through enriching your research by understanding, finding, accessing, and incorporating primary sources. This lecture-based workshop is designed for students and researchers with little to no experience with primary sources and will not be recorded. This workshop will be offered via Zoom. If you’re registered, you’ll receive the Zoom invitation information the day before the workshop.
Introduction to Primary Source Research
Find out more »GitHub for Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment
Do you use GitHub as a code repository? In this workshop you will learn how to expand your GitHub use by integrating continuous integration and continuous deployment workflows. Together we ...
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Output Tables in R
R is a powerful programming language specifically designed for statistical analysis. In this workshop, we will explore some of the tools and packages available in R to craft visually appealing ...
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W25: Population Genetics Modeling
In order to make inferences based on genomic data, it is useful to understand the evolutionary forces that underlie observed genetic variation. The field of population genetics offers theoretical tools ...
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 »Choosing a Citation Manager – EndNote vs. Zotero
Using a citation manager adds ease and efficiency to conducting research and writing papers, but what citation manager is the best for you? We’ll describe the pros and cons of ...
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QCBio Special Seminar: Thomas Kammertöns, PhD, Institute for Cancer Immunology, Charité, Universitätsmedizin Berlin
TITLE: ““The role of IFN-γ in Tumor Immunity – Mechanisms and TCR Gene Therapy”
Find out more »UCLA students, faculty, and staff are invited to register for this hands-on workshop exploring the ethical and practical uses of generative A.I. tools. Led by UCLA Library staff, this 90 minute workshop will focus on writing effective prompts, evaluating A.I.’s ability to understand and summarize academic writing and explore ways to use A.I. tools to improve research strategies, while keeping issues of plagiarism, intellectual property protection and other impacts of A.I. in mind. Attendees are encouraged to bring their own or borrow a CLICC laptop or chromebook to follow along with workshop activities.This workshop will be led by Michelle Brasseur and Helen Song.
Using AI Tools Effectively and Ethically
Find out more »Optimizing and Managing Your Workflows – HPC@UCLA Workshop 5 of 5
This advanced session focuses on improving the efficiency, scalability, and reproducibility of your research workflows on the Hoffman2 Cluster. Topics include job arrays, resource monitoring, environment management (e.g., python, conda), ...
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Frontiers in Computational Biosciences Seminar Series: Yi Zhang, PhD, Assistant Professor, Neurosurgery and Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, Duke University
TITLE: “Interpretable machine learning methods to understand tissue heterogeneity using large-scale single-cell genomics and high-definition spatial transcriptomics”
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