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Only three days left to secure your place at "How Users Imagine Archival Research." Learn about the largest collection of African American publishing materials and how they are stewarded. https://edin.ac/4pfKrDp #EdCDCS
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Join us for our workshop on Monday! This practical session in R will show you how to calculate and visualise descriptive statistics.
📆 Mon 8 Dec
🔗https://edin.ac/3W6pTRf
What does it mean to imagine archival research through the eyes of its users? Join us for a conversation with Dorothy Berry of the Smithsonian (SI: Museum of African American History (Bot)) on 10th Dec. Secure your place: https://edin.ac/4pfKrDp #EdCDCS Chair: Melissa Terras
05.12.2025 11:15 — 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Coming up next week! Join us for our Silent Disco where you'll learn how to create a gazetteer from historical texts using the LP-TSV format, then prepare it for sharing and analysis.
Beginner friendly.
📆 Fri 12 Dec
🔗https://edin.ac/473krni
One week to go! "How Users Imagine Archival Research." Don't miss the chance to hear Dorothy Berry speaking about her work on the Johnson Publishing Company Archive (JPCA) #EdCDCS Chair: Melissa Terras
📆 Wed 10 Dec
🔗https://edin.ac/4pfKrDp
Join us next week for Getting Started with Inferential Statistics! You'll learn the basics of hypothesis testing in R, including t-tests and p-values.
Previous knowledge required.
📆 Wed 10 Dec
🔗https://edin.ac/3ILF6nX
This Thursday, join us for our workshop on Using Prompting Efficiently for Research! This practical session will cover GenAI prompting strategies that you can apply in your research.
Beginner friendly.
📆 Thu 4 Dec
🔗https://edin.ac/4hc8r7r
Join us next week for Getting Started with Descriptive Statistics! This hands-on workshop will introduce the key concepts, including measures of central tendency, measures of variability, and data distributions.
📆 Mon 8 Dec
🔗 https://edin.ac/3W6pTRf
Join us tomorrow for our December Fika!
No agenda, no action items: just a group of people gathering to discuss their projects, ideas and research approaches over refreshments.
📆 Tue 02 Dec
🔗https://edin.ac/3J8EcC9
Our December Fika is next week!
No agenda, no action items: just a group of people gathering to discuss their projects, ideas and research approaches over refreshments.
📆 Tue 02 Dec
🔗https://edin.ac/3J8EcC9
Join us next week for Using Prompting Efficiently for Research! We'll teach you strategies to get better results from GenAI and identify their strengths and limitations.
Beginner friendly.
📆 Thu 4 Dec
🔗https://edin.ac/4hc8r7r
What does it mean to imagine archival research through the eyes of its users? Join us for a conversation with @dorothyjberry of @Smithsonian on 📆 10th December. Chair: @Melissa Terras. Secure your place: https://edin.ac/4pfKrDp #EdCDCS
Join us in 2 days for an Introduction to Geographical Data with QGIS! This course will give you a practical start to geospatial data in QGIS, including projections, layers, and exporting maps.
Beginner friendly.
📆 Fri 28 Nov
🔗https://edin.ac/3LbgYeV
How should theology understand intelligence when artificial systems now perform tasks once thought uniquely human? Join Dr Shoaib Ahmed Malik @uoedivinity.bsky.social for an interactive session that explores AI and theological anthropology.
📆 Mon 24th Nov
🔗https://tinyurl.com/hmypwwtd
Our Using API for Research course starts this Wednesday! We’ll use examples from real-world research applications to look at what APIs are, what they do, and how to use them to access and connect data sources.
Beginner friendly.
📆 Wed 26 Nov
🔗 https://edin.ac/49ayRo6
Save the date for our Silent Disco on building a digital gazetteer! This lesson will teach you how to create a digital gazetteer from a historical text using the Linked Places Delimited (LP-TSV) format.
Beginner-friendly.
📆 Fri 12 Dec
🔗https://edin.ac/473krni
We are excited to welcome Dorothy Berry as the speaker for our 2025 annual lecture, "How Users Imagine Archival Research", on December 10th. Register now: https://edin.ac/4pfKrDp #EdCDCS Charing: Melissa Terras
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Join us next week for an Introduction to Geographical Data with QGIS! This interactive course will focus on developing a fundamental understanding of geospatial data and the basic functionalities of QGIS.
Beginner friendly.
📆 Fri 28 Nov
🔗https://edin.ac/3LbgYeV
Save the date for Getting Started with Inferential Statistics! We'll cover null hypothesis testing, t-tests and p-values with hands-on examples in R.
Previous knowledge required.
📆 Wed 10 Dec
🔗https://edin.ac/3ILF6nX
Coming up next week! Join us for our course on using API for Research. where we’ll cover what APIs are, how to read documentation, make requests and work with JSON.
Beginner friendly.
📆 Wed 26 Nov
🔗https://edin.ac/49ayRo6
Join us this Friday to learn more about geospatial data and GIS! We'll cover core concepts, common pitfalls and useful tools.
📆 Fri 21 Nov
🔗https://edin.ac/494J4T7
Save the date for this year's CDCS Annual Lecture! Dorothy Berry will discuss the development of JPCA Explore and how it reflects wider issues around creating human-scale digital projects.
Refreshments will be provided.
📆 Wed 10 Dec
🔗https://edin.ac/48Ss1DS
This Thursday! Join us for Text Classification in Practice: From Topic Models to Transformers, a hands-on course focusing on building and evaluating pipelines in Python with Google Colab.
Previous knowledge required.
📆 Thu 20 Nov
🔗https://edin.ac/4h9RURL
Join us for our December Fika!
No agenda, no action items: just a group of people gathering to discuss their projects, ideas and research approaches over refreshments.
📆 2nd December
🔗Booking link in bio
Save the date! Our workshop on Getting Started with Descriptive Statistics will focus on helping you develop practical skills for summarising and exploring data using R.
Previous knowledge required.
📆 Mon 8 Dec
🔗https://edin.ac/3W6pTRf
Coming up next week! Join us for a practical conversation on geospatial data and GIS, from where to start to what to watch out for and which tools to use.
Beginner friendly.
📆 Fri 21 Nov
🔗https://edin.ac/494J4T7
Join us on Monday for our online session on building interactive choropleth maps in Python and Folium.
Previous knowledge of Python required.
📆 Mon 17 Nov
🔗https://edin.ac/47772L3
Join us next week for Text Classification in Practice: From Topic Models to Transformers! You'll build and evaluate classification pipelines in Python with Google Colab, from feature-based models to transformers.
Previous knowledge required.
📆 Thu 20 Nov
🔗 https://edin.ac/4h9RURL
This week we're looking at Epistemic Network Analysis in practice! You'll learn how to map co‑occurring concepts and visualise connections with the ENA Web Tool.
📆 Fri 14 Nov
🔗https://edin.ac/4nRkF8g
Save the date for our December Fika!
No agenda, no action items: just a group of people gathering to discuss their projects, ideas and research approaches over refreshments.
📆 Tue 02 Dec
🔗https://edin.ac/3J8EcC9
