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All Topics (February 6 through April 30)
Thursday, February 6
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IS&T RCS Tutorial - Creating Pretty Documents using R Markdown and Quarto (Hands-on)R Markdown is a powerful tool that helps produce elegantly formatted documents. In this tutorial, we will learn how to use the rmarkdown, ggplot2, and kable packages, as well as their extensions to develop reports that include code, graphics, and tables. We will cover various options to customize code chunks, figures, and tables and go…
Friday, February 7
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The 2025 ILJ Symposium: The Normalized Tragedy: Addressing Legal Responses to Gun Violence in the United States and Abroad.For decades, the United States has faced an epidemic of gun violence, with guns altering the way American citizens go about their lives. However, gun violence in the United States has reached a point where nowhere is safe, and places that should be safe spaces such as local schools, places of worship, and university campuses…
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ENERGIZE Graduate Student Training Program Information SessionThe ENERGIZE program is recruiting its first cohort of graduate trainees.
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IS&T RCS Tutorial - Introduction to Python, Part Two (Hands-on)This tutorial is a continuation of "Introduction to Python, Part One" and introduces more features of the language, common libraries such as numpy and matplotlib, and the basics of debugging Python programs. Please make sure you sign up for part one as well.
Monday, February 10
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IS&T RCS Tutorial - Introduction to Julia (Hands-on)Julia is a high-performance programming language, but with many features more common to lower performance interpreted languages. Many of its features are well suited for numerical analysis and computational science, with functions and syntax that are built around supporting this. This tutorial presents an introduction via solving hands-on example problems; this motivates the syntax/tools in…
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IS&T RCS Tutorial - GIS Using R: arcgis (Hands-on)The R arcgis library is part of ESRI's R-ArcGIS Bridge toolbox that allows one to interact with ArcGIS Online services within an R environment. This enables one to load data hosted on ArcGIS Online into an sf object within your R environment. Create GIS data using sf in your R environment and then publishing that…
Tuesday, February 11
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IS&T RCS Tutorial - Introduction to GRASS GIS Processing Engine (Hands-on)This tutorial will introduce participants into the fundamentals of processing geospatial data using the GRASS GIS engine. We will cover the basics of GRASS GIS, ingesting data into a new project, and visualizing spatial data in a Jupyter Notebook. We will work through a focused example—a viewshed analysis case study—where we will compute and evaluate…
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IS&T RCS Tutorial - Deep Learning with PyTorch, Part One (Hands-on)This is the first part of a two-part tutorial on PyTorch. Be sure to also register for Part Two on Thursday, February 13, from 1 PM to 3 PM to continue building your knowledge. What to Expect: This session introduces PyTorch, a popular and versatile Python library for deep learning, optimized for acceleration processing using…
Wednesday, February 12
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Meet the Donaghue FoundationAre you looking for funding to support health services research? The Donaghue Foundation supports research that organizations can use to improve the value of their health care services. Its focus is reducing (a) high and rising healthcare costs, (b) unwarranted variation and lack of transparency in quality, prices, and outcomes, and (c) racial and ethnic…
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IS&T RCS Tutorial - Data Preparation for Neuroimagers: BIDS, mriqc, and fmriprep (Hands-on)This tutorial will introduce Boston University’s Shared Computing Cluster (SCC) for use with Magnetic Resonance (MR) neuroimaging methods focusing on data preparation. We will work hands-on with the SCC to highlight the neuroimaging tools available on the SCC for importing, organizing, assessing the quality of, and preprocessing neuroimaging data. Software covered will include dcm2bids, MRIQC,…