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Edinburgh Centre for Data, Culture & Society @edcdcs.bsky.social · 7h

Curious about Large Language Models? Our Digital Method of the Month will look at what LLMs can and cannot do, where to start, and common pitfalls.

Beginner friendly.

📆 Wed 29 Oct
🔗https://edin.ac/4h9C89l

Edinburgh Centre for Data, Culture & Society @edcdcs.bsky.social · 1d

Join us later this week for "Working with OCR", where we'll show you how to turn images into text to help with your analysis.

Beginner friendly!

📆 Thu 09 Oct
🔗 https://edin.ac/3VZdGO2

Edinburgh Centre for Data, Culture & Society @edcdcs.bsky.social · 2d

Join us this month for Giving Humanists a Helping Hand in HPC! Brad will discuss low-cost, high-impact DIY strategies for integrating humanities and social sciences into academic HPC infrastructure.

📆 Mon 20 October
🔗 https://edin.ac/4gWO8uP

Edinburgh Centre for Data, Culture & Society @edcdcs.bsky.social · 5d

Are you interested in learning how to create systematic and reproducible data tidying workflows? Join us for this workshop where we'll cover the steps involved, from uploading your data to saving and exporting.

📆 Fri 24 Oct
🔗https://edin.ac/3IIQCAi

Edinburgh Centre for Data, Culture & Society @edcdcs.bsky.social · 5d

Join us next week for Network Analysis from Scratch: Intro to Gephi.

Learn more about how to get started with Gephi and map relationships in your data.

Beginner friendly.

📆 Mon 06 Oct
🔗 https://edin.ac/4gbFbgG

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Edinburgh Centre for Data, Culture & Society @edcdcs.bsky.social · 6d

Want to learn more about version control? Join us for this workshop where you'll look at what version control is, why Git is a great tool to do it, and learn how to use the Github Desktop app for version control and collaboration.

Beginner-friendly.

📆 Thu 23 Oct
🔗https://edin.ac/3WfMgUf

Edinburgh Centre for Data, Culture & Society @edcdcs.bsky.social · 6d

Coming up next week! We'll show you how to extract text from images and scanned PDFs using free tools.

Beginner friendly.

📆 Thu 09 Oct
🔗 https://edin.ac/3VZdGO2

Edinburgh Centre for Data, Culture & Society @edcdcs.bsky.social · 12d

Curious about sentiment analysis? Join us for our Silent Disco where we'll cover how it works, the pros and cons, and hands-on text analysis.

Beginner friendly.

📆Fri 17 Oct,
🔗 https://edin.ac/4nIdLS8

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Edinburgh Centre for Data, Culture & Society @edcdcs.bsky.social · 13d

Curious about OCR? Our course will show you how to extract text from images and scanned PDFs using free, ready‑to‑use tools.

Beginner friendly!

📆 Thu 09 Oct
🔗 https://edin.ac/3VZdGO2

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Edinburgh Centre for Data, Culture & Society @edcdcs.bsky.social · 13d

Join us tomorrow for our Digital Method of the Month.

This month's session explores how network analysis helps visualise relationships and patterns in data.

Beginner-friendly.

📆 Fri 26 Sep, 09:30 – 10:30
🔗 https://edin.ac/3KadyZq

Edinburgh Centre for Data, Culture & Society @edcdcs.bsky.social · 14d

Join us for our October Fika!

No agenda, no action items: just a group of people gathering to discuss their projects, ideas and research approaches over refreshments.

📆 Wed 08 Oct, 09:30 – 10:30
🔗 https://edin.ac/4pA4u0i

Edinburgh Centre for Data, Culture & Society @edcdcs.bsky.social · 15d

It’s this week! Our "Getting Started with R for Research" course will get you set up and working confidently with your data in RStudio.

📆 Thurs 25 Sep & 02 Oct.
🔗 https://edin.ac/4n8pM2W

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Edinburgh Centre for Data, Culture & Society @edcdcs.bsky.social · 16d

Coming soon! Get started with Gephi and the basics of network analysis.

Beginner-friendly.

📆 Mon 06 Oct
🔗 https://edin.ac/4gbFbgG

Edinburgh Centre for Data, Culture & Society @edcdcs.bsky.social · 16d

Just a few days left to join our "Getting Started with Python for Research" course and take the first step in your coding journey!

Perfect for beginners.

📆 Wed 24 Sep, 01 Oct & 08 Oct
🔗 https://edin.ac/45XXcdD

Edinburgh Centre for Data, Culture & Society @edcdcs.bsky.social · 19d

Coming up next week: Our Digital Method of the Month on #NetworkAnalysis.

Learn how to visualise relationships and patterns in your data.

No experience needed.

📆 Fri 26 Sept
🔗 https://edin.ac/3KadyZq

Edinburgh Centre for Data, Culture & Society @edcdcs.bsky.social · 20d

Coming up next week! Our "Getting Started with R for Research" course offers a clear, beginner-friendly start to R and RStudio with practical data wrangling.

📆 Thurs 25 Sept & 2nd October
🔗 https://edin.ac/4n8pM2W

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Edinburgh Centre for Data, Culture & Society @edcdcs.bsky.social · 21d

Coming up next week! Don't miss our "Getting Started with Python for Research" course.

Ideal if you're a beginner looking to enhance your skills!

📆 Wed 24th September, 1st October & 8th October
🔗 https://edin.ac/45XXcdD.

Edinburgh Centre for Data, Culture & Society @edcdcs.bsky.social · 22d

Looking to improve your digital skills or try a new computational method? Join us this week to explore this year’s CDCS training and support.

📆 Thurs 18th September
🔗https://edin.ac/481uKds

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Edinburgh Centre for Data, Culture & Society @edcdcs.bsky.social · 23d

Save the date! Network Analysis from Scratch: Intro to Gephi. A beginner-friendly introduction to using Gephi to visualise relationships and patterns in data.

📆 Mon 6 Oct
🔗 https://edin.ac/4gbFbgG

Edinburgh Centre for Data, Culture & Society @edcdcs.bsky.social · 26d

Curious about Network Analysis? Our Digital Method of the Month explores how network analysis helps visualise relationships and patterns in data.

Beginner-friendly.

📆 Fri 26 Sept
🔗 https://edin.ac/3KadyZq

Edinburgh Centre for Data, Culture & Society @edcdcs.bsky.social · 28d

Join us next month as Patrick Helling discusses research data management in the Humanities.

From data types, formats and metadata, to looking after “living resources”.

What’s working, what’s not, and how we can support it

📆 Wed 1 Oct
🔗 https://edin.ac/3VqFvil

Edinburgh Centre for Data, Culture & Society @edcdcs.bsky.social · Sep 8

Wishing new University of Edinburgh students and staff a warm welcome this September! The Centre for Data, Culture & Society is a community of practice.

Find out more about how we support digital and data-led research: www.cdcs.ed.ac.uk/

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Edinburgh Centre for Data, Culture & Society @edcdcs.bsky.social · Sep 4

Save the date: Getting Started with R for Research is coming soon!

From first steps in RStudio to hands-on data wrangling, this course is perfect for beginners.

📆 Thurs 25 Sept & 2nd October
🔗 https://edin.ac/4n8pM2W

Edinburgh Centre for Data, Culture & Society @edcdcs.bsky.social · Sep 3

Join us to get started with Python for Research!

This course will introduce you to one of the most popular programming languages, perfect for everything from machine learning to rapid prototyping.

📆 Wed 24th September, 1st October & 8th October
🔗 Booking link in bio

Edinburgh Centre for Data, Culture & Society @edcdcs.bsky.social · Sep 2

Looking to build your digital skills or try a new computational method?

Join our Training Information Session to see what’s on this year and learn more about how to get started with CDCS training and support.

📆 Thurs 18th September
🔗https://edin.ac/481uKds

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