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This event is an example-driven three-day workshop on February 7, 9, and 11, 2022 for introduction to data visualization with R. Learners will start with basic information about R syntax and the Rstudio interface. By the end, learners will be able to produce simple time and scatter plots using ggplot2 and the tidyverse.

Short tutorials alternate with...

This event is an example-driven one-day workshop on Friday, February 4th, 2022 at NCEAS Downtown Campus for introduction to relational databases and SQL. Participants will need to install sqlite3 or DB Browser onto their devices; if you have Anaconda, it comes with sqlite3. Concepts covered include data organization, querying large amounts of data, and quality...

This event will be held outside, in front of the Library's West Paseo entrance.

UCSB Library will hand out free copies of the UCSB Reads 2022 book to UCSB students while supplies last. The 2022 selection is Exhalation: Stories, a collection of nine science fiction short stories by Ted Chiang. 

This event is a one day, example-driven workshop on January 28. 2022 for introduction to using Git Pages for online self-publication. Short tutorials alternate with hands-on practical exercises, and participants are encouraged both to help one another, and to try applying what they have learned to their own work. This lesson will teach you how you can load your work into Git, and how to format your site for readability...

Join us for Lunch & Learn, where you'll have the chance to socialize with other grad students and hear talks by students in Environmental Studies and Religious Studies. Lunch & Learn is co-sponsored by the Graduate Division, the Graduate Student Association, and the ...

This event is a two day example-driven workshop on January 12 and 14, 2022 for an introduction to using version control with Git and the Bash-Shell.  On Day 1, we get you started on how to use the command shell.  The use of a shell allows you to perform complex and powerful tasks, often with just a few keystrokes or lines of code. It helps automate repetitive tasks and easily combine smaller tasks into larger, more...

This event is an example-driven two-day workshop on January 4 and 7th, 2022 at NCEAS Downtown Campus for introduction to data visualization and pandas libraries with Python. Learners will start with basic information about Python syntax and the Jupyter notebook interface in JupyterLabs. Participants will need to install ...

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UCSB Library is please to co-sponsor this virtual conversation between William Wang, Director, Center for Responsible Machine Learning and Mellichamp Associate Professor of Artificial Intelligence at UCSB and Kai-Fu Lee.

Dr. Kai-Fu Lee has spent more than three...

Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) is a holiday from Mexico with origins dating back to the Aztecs. Now a global festivity, it is celebrated wherever the Mexican diaspora exists. Traditionally, people build altars in their home and decorate them with ofrendas: offering for the dead. The most common offerings are: tamales, chiles, water, tequila and pan de muerto, a specific bread for the occasion, and flowers, orange or yellow cempasúchil flowers, marigolds, whose strong...

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Join us for an artist talk with RT Livingston as she discusses the new UCSB Library exhibit, 9/11 RENEWAL/REBIRTH, in which she documents her experience as artist and citizen during the tragic events of 9/11.

The recently launched 9/11 RENEWAL/REBIRTH online exhibition features Livingston'...