Event Resources

This page contains resources from some of our highest profile events. These will include speaker biographies, their talk abstracts, copies of their slides and recordings of their presentations.

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Digital Health Community Day Presentations

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Author: Grainne Wrigley
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N8 Community Day

NH,
Author: NH

On 13 June N8 CIR hosted its postponed Community Day at Durham University. This page contains the slides from some of the key presentations given during the event.

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Intermediate Python in the Humanities

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Author: None

Find out how Melodee Wood uses Python to prepare and analyse images and text using the Python programming language.

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HPC for Healthcare

NH,
Author: NH

This page contains links to resources used as part of the recent HPC for Healthcare facilitated by Will Furnass and Mark Dunning of the University of Sheffield.

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Twitter for Health Data Research

NH,
Author: NH

Real-time social media data from platforms such as Twitter are a fantastic source of data - never has an individual been able to access historic opinions and watch them develop over time so trivially.

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GlueViz

NH,
Author: NH

This page contains slides and datasets used for the GlueViz workshop delivered by Jonathan Pickering on 27 January 2022.

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Paraview

NH,
Author: NH

This page contains slides and datasets used for the Paraview workshop delivered by Joanna Leng and Jonathan Pickering on 25 January 2022.

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Machine Learning for Humanists

NH,
Author: NH

Across four dates in June 2021 Michael Falk, then based at the University of Kent, ran four separate workshops exploring Machine Learning in the Humanities.

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Ethics for Computational Research

NH,
Author: NH

Links to videos and resources from a series of workshops organised by N8 CIR exploring ethics in computational research.

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Python for the Humanities

NH,
Author: NH

Join Melodee Beals as she introduces and explores how to use Python in the humanities.

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RSE Meet-Up 2021

NH,
Author: NH

On 21 June N8 CIR organised its third meeting of research software engineers. Taking place online the event featured presentations and discussions about the role of RSEs across the N8 Research Partnership.

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Research Data Management 3

NH,
Author: NH

The final RDM event of the 20/21 academic year featured Sarah Jones, EOSC Engagement Manager at GÉANT, speaking about The Future of FAIR.

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N8 CIR UK Biobank Seminar Series

NH,
Author: NH

In June 2021 N8 CIR organised and hosted a series of seminars highlighting how researchers accessed and utilised UK Biobank data in their research.

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RDM Network Meeting 2

NH,
Author: NH

Slides and presentations from the second meeting of the N8's Research Data Management Network.

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R for Text Analysis

NH,
Author: NH

This page contains resources from Leah Henrickson's introduction to R for text analysis including links to sample texts and the workshop slides.

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Computer Vision for the Humanities

NH,
Author: NH

Slides, links and video from Daniel van Strien's computer vision workshop.

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Cryo EM, Genomics and Life Sciences Workloads on Bede

NH,
Author: NH

On 4 May 2021 Terry Leatherland and Ruzhu Chen of IBM delivered a session explaining how to get the best performance from a range of Life Sciences packages.

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Data Visualisation for Cultural Heritage Collections

NH,
Author: NH

In this two part workshop Olivia Vane of the British Library takes you through a beautifully illustrated history of data visualisation before outlining some of the things you need to consider when preparing your own data visualisations.

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IBM Training For Bede

NH,
Author: NH

During spring 2021 IBM are delivering a series of workshops and training sessions on N8 CIR's new high-performance computing platform, Bede. This page contains videos and copies of the slides from each of these sessions.

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Bede Introductory Event, January 2021

NH,
Author: NH

On 28 January researchers who have already made use of Bede in their work came together to present case studies of their experience.

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N8 RDM Network Launch Event

NH,
Author: NH

On 25 November 2020 N8 CIR hosted the launch event for a new Research Data Management Network. This page contains resources from that event including three videos of the presentations and copies of those speakers' slides.

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RSE Meet-up - Speed Blogging

NH,
Author: NH

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Reproducible Analyses in R

NH,
Author: NH

In July 2020 Emma Rand of the University of York ran a course introducing R and RStudio to help researchers to produce reproducible analyses of their data. This resource page includes slides and video from that workshop to help you get started in R.

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Python for Web Scraping

NH,
Author: NH

On Tuesday 15 and Wednesday 22 July 2020 a small team from Durham University ran a pair of workshops outlining how to use Python for scraping data from Twitter.

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N8 CIR: RSE Career Event – A Review

NH,
Author: NH

A review of N8 CIR's Career Development Meet-up. The page includes insight from RSE team leads about the recruitment process as well as practical tips about how to identify job opportunities, prepare for an interview, and career development advice.

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Remote ReproHack

NH,
Author: NH

An overview of the Remote ReproHack, which took place online on 14 May 2020.

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N8 CIR Success in the Cloud

NH,
Author: NH

An overview of the talks and presentations from the N8 CIR Success in the Cloud event in Manchester on 17 October 2019.

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N8 CIR Research Software Engineer Meet Up Resources

NH,
Author: NH

An overview of the talks and presentations from the N8 CIR RSE Meet Up in Leeds on 9 July.

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