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Past Events

28 NOV

2023

Synthetic Data Generation Event

Registration is NOW CLOSED  1 day event   Online

N8 CIR are hosting a 2-part Synthetic Data Hackathon to understand, brainstorm and produce synthetic data in your research field.

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08 NOV

2023

Data Access for Digital Health

Registration is NOW CLOSED  1 day event   Online

Join us for a half-day event where we discuss the challenges of data access in the field of digital health

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27 JUN

2023

API Training for Digital Health

Registration is NOW CLOSED  1 day event   Online

In this session we will introduce you to APIs and what they can do, building up (with practical examples) to you writing your own API in R

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22 JUN

2023

Digital Health Community Day

Registration is NOW CLOSED  1 day event   Nexus, University of Leeds

Join us at the University of Leeds for a day of workshops and talks on our Digital Health Theme

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13 JUN

2023

N8 CIR RSE Day

Registration is NOW CLOSED  1 day event   Mount Oswald Hub South College Durham

A meeting for the N8 RSEs to exchange experiences and discuss relevant topics

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13 JUN

2023

N8 CIR RSE Leaders and Aspiring Leaders meeting

Registration is NOW CLOSED  1 day event   Mount Oswald Hub South College Durham

A meeting for the N8 RSE group leaders to exchange experiences and discuss relevant topics

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08 JUN

2023

Digital Humanities Community Day

Registration is NOW CLOSED  1 day event   Cloth Hall Court, University of Leeds

Join us at the University of Leeds for a day of workshops and talks on our Digital Humanities Theme

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04 MAY

2023

Data Pre-Processing Training

Registration is NOW CLOSED  1 day event   Online

Join Julia Kasmire from UKDS to learn a data mining technique that involves transforming raw data into an understandable format.

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14 MAR

2023

WHPC HPC Carpentry Workshop

Registration is NOW CLOSED  1 day event   Newcastle University

Our all-women trainers team will teach you how to log in, how to transfer data to and from the supercomputer, and how to submit a job to the cluster.

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09 MAR

18 APR

2023

Python GPU Programming Workshop

Registration is NOW CLOSED  41 day event   Newcastle University

Alex Coleman from the University of Leeds will be hosting a two-part workshop on Python GPU programming.

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08 MAR

2023

The N8 CIR Women in HPC Chapter - Embracing Equity

Registration is NOW CLOSED  1 day event   Online webinar

In this 1h webinar we will introduce N8 CIR and our WHPC chapter, explain our goals and key objectives, and present some of our activities and initiatives since the foundation of our chapter.

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07 MAR

2023

An introduction to corpus linguistics for humanities researchers

Registration is NOW CLOSED  1 day event   Lancaster University Library, Digital Scholarship Lab & Open Scholarship Lab

Join us at Lancaster University for an introduction to corpus linguistics and the opportunities it may offer you and your research.

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21 FEB

2023

Introduction to Synthetic Data for Researchers

Registration is NOW CLOSED  1 day event   Online webinar

Julia Kasmire invites you to learn about how synthetic data can assist your research

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25 — 31
JAN

2023

Digital Health Data Management Workshop

Registration is NOW CLOSED  7 day event   Online

Join Cristina Magder for her two-part online data management course on the theme of digital health.

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23 — 24
JAN

2023

Introduction to digital textual editing with TEI

Registration is NOW CLOSED  2 day event   Newcastle University

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17 — 24
JAN

2023

Web Scraping with Python for the Humanities

Registration is NOW CLOSED  8 day event   Online webinar

Eamonn Bell from the University of Durham will be hosting a course on web scraping as a data collection technique for researchers.

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05 DEC

2022

Introduction to Artificial Neural Networks in Python

Registration is NOW CLOSED  1 day event   Online webinar

Tom Joseph Pollard from MIT will be hosting an online workshop on Machine Learning with Python.

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29 NOV

06 DEC

2022

R for Digital Humanities

Registration is NOW CLOSED  8 day event   Online webinar

Leah Henrickson returns to deliver a revised version of her brilliant and well-regarded R course.

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09 NOV

2022

Accessibility Inclusion for Visual Impairment

Registration is NOW CLOSED  1 day event   Online Event

We have partnered with Open Life Sciences to offer a two-hour workshop exploring how we can increase awareness around visual impairment and ways to increase accessibility inclusion.

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09 NOV

2022

Library Carpentry Workshop

Registration is NOW CLOSED  1 day event   Online webinar

The Carpentries are hosting a Library Carpentry workshop for beginners at Lancaster University Library

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09 — 11
NOV

2022

Introduction to Text-mining for Digital Health

Registration is NOW CLOSED  3 day event   Online webinar

Join us for a two-part webinar on Text-Mining in Digital Health for beginners!

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01 NOV

2022

Machine Learning Theme Launch

Registration is NOW CLOSED  1 day event   Nexus, University of Leeds

Come and join us at the University of Leeds for the launch of our Machine Learning Theme.

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07 OCT

2022

Ally Skills Training by Open Life Science

Registration is NOW CLOSED  1 day event   Online Event

In this interactive workshop, you will learn about your own privileges and how to use them to step up for others.

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29 JUN

2022

Building Workflows in Digital Health

Registration is NOW CLOSED  1 day event   University Place, Oxford Road, Manchester

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13 JUN

2022

CIR Community Day

Registration is NOW CLOSED  1 day event   Durham University

N8 CIR have now rescheduled their community day from December 2021

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20 MAY

2022

Zooniverse Project Builder

Registration is NOW CLOSED  1 day event   The Digital Scholarship Lab, Lancaster University

The Davy Notebooks Project is running a free workshop exploring the Zooniverse Project Builder.

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16 MAY

2022

Fundamentals of Deep Learning

Registration is NOW CLOSED  1 day event   Online Event

N8 CIR have teamed up with NVIDIA-certified instructor Twin Karmakharm to offer a full-day workshop in deep learning.

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05 APR

2022

Intermediate Python for Humanities

Registration is NOW CLOSED  1 day event   Online Event

Expanding your python programming skills can open new and interesting avenues for your research, allowing you to interrogate sources at scale or zoom into finer details than are visible to the human eye!

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28 MAR

01 APR

2022

Digital Research Infrastructure Retreat

In-person registration closed on 27 March. Virtual registration will remain open until 24 March.  5 day event   Hybrid Event

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08 MAR

2022

R in the Humanities - 2022

Registration is NOW CLOSED  1 day event   Online Event

Leah Henrickson returns to deliver a revised version of her brilliant and well-regarded R course.

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17 FEB

2022

Twitter Data Analysis for Digital Health Research

Registration is NOW CLOSED  1 day event   Online Event

Find out how to access and utilise Twitter's new academic tier for research

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15 FEB

2022

N8 CIR Machine Learning - Durham

Registration is NOW CLOSED  1 day event   Online Event

Machine Learning lies at the core of modern data processing models. One of the main challenges facing academia to produce large scale Machine Learning solution is the access to sufficient computational resources and relevant support.

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09 FEB

2022

N8 CIR Machine Learning - Liverpool

Registration is NOW CLOSED  1 day event   Online Event

Machine Learning lies at the core of modern data processing models. If you are already working in machine learning, or would like to integrate it into your research, join this event to contribute to our new community.

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08 FEB

2022

N8 CIR Machine Learning - Newcastle

Registration is NOW CLOSED  1 day event   Online Event

Machine Learning (often referred to as AI) has been gaining significant interest in recent years and there is much going on at Newcastle. This event is to draw together those working in ML at Newcastle and to see how the N8’s new initiative in ML can help.

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08 FEB

2022

Python for the Humanities

Registration is NOW CLOSED  1 day event   Online Event

Melodee Beals returns to deliver a pair of workshops introducing the Python programming language and how it can support humanities research.

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03 FEB

2022

N8 CIR Machine Learning - Manchester

Registration is NOW CLOSED  1 day event   Online Event

Attention all Machine Learning (ML) researchers and PGR students (users and developers): The new N8 CIR Machine Learning theme needs your help!

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02 FEB

2022

N8 CIR Machine Learning - Lancaster

Registration is NOW CLOSED  1 day event   Online Event

Machine learning (ML) is having a revolutionary effect across the sciences and humanities.

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28 JAN

2022

N8 CIR Machine Learning - York

Registration is NOW CLOSED  1 day event   Online Event

Machine Learning lies at the core of modern data processing models. If you are already working in machine learning, or would like to integrate it into your research, join this event to contribute to our new community.

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27 JAN

2022

GlueViz Workshop

Registration is NOW CLOSED  1 day event   Online Event

GlueViz is an open-source data visualization package, which runs on desktops, or laptops, under Windows, MacOS and Linux/Unix.

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25 JAN

2022

Paraview Workshop

Registration is NOW CLOSED  1 day event   Online Event

Paraview is a scientific visualisation tool for 2D and 3D data, primarily images and meshes.

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14 JAN

2022

N8 CIR Machine Learning - Leeds

Registration is NOW CLOSED  1 day event   Online Event

Machine Learning lies at the core of modern data processing models. If you are already working in machine learning, or would like to integrate it into your research, join this event to contribute to our new community.

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13 DEC

2021

Postponed - High Performance Community

Registration is NOW CLOSED  1 day event   Durham University

An in-person event to celebrate the work of N8 CIR over the last 12 months.

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07 DEC

2021

ReproHack - Train the Trainer

Registration is NOW CLOSED  1 day event   Online Event

Are you interested in ReproHacks? Find out how to organise and run your own ReproHack at our train the trainer workshop.

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18 NOV

2021

Reprohack Hub Launch

Registration is NOW CLOSED  1 day event   Online Event

Reprohack is back!

Join us on Thursday 18 November for an online Reprohack to celebrate the launch of the new Reprohack online hub.

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11 NOV

2021

Ethics in Computational Research - AI and Machine Learning

Registration is NOW CLOSED  1 day event   Online Event

Join Michael Castelle for the third of N8 CIR's Ethics in Computational Research workshops.

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04 NOV

2021

Ethics in Computational Research - NHS and Health Data

Registration is NOW CLOSED  1 day event   Online Event

Join David Carpenter for the second of N8 CIR's Ethics in Computational Research workkshops

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28 OCT

2021

Ethics in Computational Research - Introduction

Registration is NOW CLOSED  1 day event   Online Event

Join Niall O'Loughlin and Catherine Brewer for a session introducing data ethics for research.

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12 — 14
JUL

2021

High Performance Computing for Healthcare

Registration is NOW CLOSED  3 day event   Online Event

This two-day workshop is intended to remove some of the mystery from HPC systems, making it easier for healthcare researchers to access them and accelerate their work.

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30 JUN

2021

UK Biobank Seminar - Prediction of worldwide trait population variation

Registration is NOW CLOSED  1 day event   Online Event

The final in a series of seminars organised by N8 CIR to help researchers learn more about this vital resource.

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30 JUN

2021

The Future of FAIR

Registration is NOW CLOSED  1 day event   Online Event

The final RDM event of the academic year will feature Sarah Jones, EOSC Engagement Manager at GÉANT, speaking about The Future of FAIR.

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23 JUN

2021

UK BioBank Seminar - Code Set Selection Methods for Primary Care Data

Registration is NOW CLOSED  1 day event   Online Event

The third in a series of seminars organised by N8 CIR to help researchers learn more about this vital resource.

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21 JUN

2021

RSE Meet-up 2021

Registration is NOW CLOSED  1 day event   Online Event

N8 CIR’s annual RSE meet-up returns in June!

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16 JUN

2021

UK BioBank Seminar - Analysing the 100,000+ accelerometer datasets in the UK Biobank

Registration is NOW CLOSED  1 day event   Online Event

The second in a series of seminars organised by N8 CIR to help researchers learn more about this vital resource.

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16 JUN

2021

Fundamentals of Deep Learning

Registration is NOW CLOSED  1 day event   Online Event

N8 CIR have teamed up with NVIDIA-certified instructor Twin Karmakharm to offer a full-day workshop in deep learning.

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09 JUN

2021

UK Biobank Seminar - Extending UKBiobank's reach into the mitochondrial genome (mtDNA)

Registration is NOW CLOSED  1 day event   Online Event

The first in a series of seminars organised by N8 CIR to help researchers learn more about this vital resource.

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01 — 22
JUN

2021

Machine Learning for Humanists

Registration is NOW CLOSED  22 day event   Online Event

In the last two decades, Machine Learning has emerged as one of the most powerful AI technologies. It drives systems we interact with every day, recognising our faces, completing sentences in our emails, and determining whether we are robots.

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26 MAY

2021

R in the Humanities

Registration is NOW CLOSED  1 day event   Online Event

Join Dr Leah Henrickson of the University of Leeds for a two-part workshop on R for text analysis.

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10 — 11
MAY

2021

Python for the Humanities

Registration is NOW CLOSED  2 day event   Online Event

Python programming is a fantastically useful tool for researchers to expand their horizons.

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04 MAY

2021

CryoEM, Genomics, and other Life Sciences workloads on Bede

Registration is NOW CLOSED  1 day event   Online Event

Ruzhu Chen and Terry Leatherland from IBM will discuss Cryogenic Electron Microscopy and other Life Sciences and Genomics workloads, including RELiON, and how to get the best performance running these on the Bede cluster.

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19 APR

2021

Data Visualisation for Cultural Heritage Collections

Registration is NOW CLOSED  1 day event   Online Event

Data visualisation—making visual representations of datasets in graphs, charts, maps and other kinds of diagrams—is a powerful way of analysing, exploring and presenting cultural heritage data.

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13 APR

2021

Computer Vision for the Humanities

Registration is NOW CLOSED  1 day event   Online Event

An Introduction to Deep Learning for Image Classification

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26 MAR

2021

RSE Leaders and Aspiring Leaders Event

Registration is NOW CLOSED  1 day event   Online Event

N8 CIR is hosting an online meetup for research software engineering leaders and aspiring leaders.

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24 MAR

2021

RDM Network Event

Registration is NOW CLOSED  1 day event   Online Event

The second meeting of our research data management network will take place on Wednesday 24 March.

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19 MAR

2021

IBM Training for Bede - AI

Registration is NOW CLOSED  1 day event   Online Event

In this second workshop, Ludo Enault will discuss and advise on Bede's data science tools.

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17 MAR

2021

Fundamentals of Accelerated Computing with CUDA C/C++

Registration is NOW CLOSED  1 day event   Online Event

The CUDA computing platform enables the acceleration of CPU-only applications to run on the world’s fastest massively parallel GPUs.

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12 MAR

2021

IBM Training for Bede - HPC

Registration is NOW CLOSED  1 day event   Online Event

This session will offer a broad introduction to Bede and its system and architecture.

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28 JAN

2021

Bede Introductory Event

Registration is NOW CLOSED  1 day event   Online Event

This introductory event offers those who are new to HPC the opportunity to learn more about Bede’s hardware and software, as well as the support that is available to users, regardless of their experience of HPC.

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21 JAN

15 JUL

2021

2021 Code Performance Series: From analysis to insight

Registration is NOW CLOSED  176 day event   Online Event

Performance analysis is at the core of the development of exascale software – to understand why software performs (or not) is the basis of any informed improvement of that same code.

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15 JAN

05 FEB

2021

Bede Instructors' Course

Registration is NOW CLOSED  22 day event   Online Event

This course has been developed by Martin Callaghan at the University of Leeds with the intention of helping to provide useful skills to the RSE team who will be supporting Bede.

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08 — 09
DEC

2020

Fundamentals of Deep Learning

Registration is NOW CLOSED  2 day event   Online Event

This workshop is now fully booked.

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25 NOV

2020

N8 RDM Network Launch Event

Registration is NOW CLOSED  1 day event   Online Event

Join us to celebrate the N8 RDM Network launch at our virtual kickstart event on November 25th 10-11:30 am, which will feature a series of short talks followed by a panel discussion.

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29 JUL

2020

Microsoft Azure for Research

Registration is NOW CLOSED  1 day event   Online Delivery

This short workshop, delivered by Microsoft’s Education Team, will introduce the Azure platform and how it can be used to support and accelerate research activity.

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27 — 31
JUL

2020

University of Sheffield GPU Hackathon 2020

Registration is NOW CLOSED  5 day event   Online Delivery

Following the success of our 2019 event, the University of Sheffield (Sheffield, United Kingdom) is pleased to announce that we will be hosting a 2020 GPU Hackathon as part of the international GPU Hackathon Series. However, this year's event will most likely be run online unless government restrictions around COVID-19 are significantly altered.

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22 JUL

2020

Python for Web Scraping - Digital Humanities

Registration is NOW CLOSED  1 day event   Online Delivery

This workshop starts with an overview of using social media data for applications in digital humanities and an introduction to Python. It then covers Twitter data collection using the Twitter Developer API, data pre-processing and machine learning methods to process the collected data.

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21 JUL

2020

Introduction to Reproducible Analyses in R

Registration is NOW CLOSED  1 day event   Online delivery

A workshop to introduce the R programming language and help researchers to make their work transparent and reproducible.

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15 JUL

2020

Python for Web Scraping - Digital Health

Registration is NOW CLOSED  1 day event   Online Delivery

This workshop starts with an overview of using social media data for healthcare applications and an introduction to Python. It then covers Twitter data collection using the Twitter Developer API, data pre-processing and machine learning methods to process the collected data.

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26 JUN

2020

How to understand and improve the performance of your parallel applications using the POP Methodology

Registration is NOW CLOSED  1 day event   Online Delivery

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23 JUN

2020

Pick N Mix - Creating Lava Lamp Plots

Registration is NOW CLOSED  1 day event   Online Delivery

Pick N Mix is a tasty selection of free weekly online workshops run by the Open Data Manchester community. Each week you’ll be introduced to a tool, resource or skill in a fun, friendly and informative way.

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18 JUN

2020

N8 CIR Meet-ups - RSE Speed Blogging

Registration is NOW CLOSED  1 day event   Online Delivery

Speed blogging events are fun, interactive and engaging sessions.

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16 JUN

2020

Pick N Mix - Key Issues in Re-using Data

Registration is NOW CLOSED  1 day event   Online Delivery

Pick N Mix is a tasty selection of free weekly online workshops run by the Open Data Manchester community. Each week you’ll be introduced to a tool, resource or skill in a fun, friendly and informative way.

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11 JUN

2020

N8 CIR Meet-ups - N8 CIR RSE Highlights

Registration is NOW CLOSED  1 day event   Online delivery

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09 JUN

2020

Pick N Mix - Introduction to SQL

Registration is NOW CLOSED  1 day event   Online Delivery

Pick N Mix is a tasty selection of free weekly online workshops run by the Open Data Manchester community. Each week you’ll be introduced to a tool, resource or skill in a fun, friendly and informative way.

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04 JUN

2020

N8 CIR Meet-ups - RSE Career Progression

Registration is NOW CLOSED  1 day event   Online Delivery

Career progression can be a challenge for Research Software Engineers, and most of the Universities within the N8 have different protocols for promotion and career progression.

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02 JUN

2020

Pick N Mix - Data Analysis with Python

Registration is NOW CLOSED  1 day event   Online Delivery

Pick N Mix is a tasty selection of free weekly online workshops run by the Open Data Manchester community. Each week you’ll be introduced to a tool, resource or skill in a fun, friendly and informative way.

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28 MAY

2020

N8 CIR Meet-ups - N8 CIR RSE Highlights

Registration is NOW CLOSED  1 day event   Online delivery

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26 MAY

2020

Pick N Mix - Introduction to Web Scraping

Registration is NOW CLOSED  1 day event   Online Delivery

Pick N Mix is a tasty selection of free weekly online workshops run by the Open Data Manchester community. Each week you’ll be introduced to a tool, resource or skill in a fun, friendly and informative way.

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21 MAY

2020

N8 CIR Meet-ups - Introducing Bede

Registration is NOW CLOSED  1 day event   Online delivery

Following a successful EPSRC application, the N8 CIR will soon host a new national Tier-2 HPC service, called Bede.

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19 MAY

2020

Pick N Mix - Introduction to the UK Data Service

Registration is NOW CLOSED  1 day event   Online Delivery

Pick N Mix is a tasty selection of free weekly online workshops run by the Open Data Manchester community. Each week you’ll be introduced to a tool, resource or skill in a fun, friendly and informative way.

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14 MAY

2020

N8 CIR Meet Ups - Women in HPC

Registration is NOW CLOSED  1 day event   Online Delivery

Women in HPC is an international organisation that aims to address the lack of gender balance in computing.

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14 MAY

2020

Remote ReproHack

Registration is NOW CLOSED  1 day event   Online Delivery

Following the cancellation of the University of Manchester's ReproHack on Thursday 14 March, this new event gives those planning to attend, and a few more, the opportunity to attend a ReproHack, albeit remotely.

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12 MAY

2020

Pick N Mix - Introduction to QGIS

Registration is NOW CLOSED  1 day event   Online Delivery

Pick N Mix is a tasty selection of free weekly online workshops run by the Open Data Manchester community. Each week you’ll be introduced to a tool, resource or skill in a fun, friendly and informative way.

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05 MAY

2020

Pick N Mix - Introduction to OpenStreetMap

Registration is NOW CLOSED  1 day event   Online Delivery

Pick N Mix is a tasty selection of free weekly online workshops run by the Open Data Manchester community. Each week you’ll be introduced to a tool, resource or skill in a fun, friendly and informative way.

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25 MAR

2020

Microsoft Azure Cloud Workshop - POSTPONED

Registration is NOW CLOSED  1 day event   Room D45b, Sackville Street Building, Granby Row, Manchester, M1 3BU

Postponed

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12 MAR

2020

ReproHack - The University of Manchester

Registration is NOW CLOSED  1 day event   Room F37, Sackville Street Building, University of Manchester

This event has been postponed. Please subscribe to our newsletter or follow us on Twitter for updates about the rescheduling of this workshop.

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10 MAR

2020

ReproHack - The University of Sheffield

Registration is NOW CLOSED  1 day event   Lewin Computer Room, University of Sheffield

A ReproHack is a one-day reproducibility hackathon. These events bring together researchers, RSEs and data scientists to reproduce papers from published scientific code and data.

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25 FEB

2020

ReproHack - University of Liverpool

Registration is NOW CLOSED  1 day event   Wolfson Suite, University of Liverpool

A ReproHack is a one-day reproducibility hackathon. These events bring together researchers, RSEs and data scientists to reproduce papers from published scientific code and data.

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19 FEB

2020

Northern Digital Humanities Meeting

Registration is NOW CLOSED  1 day event   University of Liverpool, School of Law & Social Justice Building

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14 FEB

2020

ReproHack - University of Leeds

Registration is NOW CLOSED  1 day event   University of Leeds

A ReproHack is a one-day reproducibility hackathon. These events bring together researchers, RSEs and data scientists to reproduce papers from published scientific code and data.

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05 FEB

2020

N8 CIR Intro Event - Digital Humanities - University of Liverpool

Registration is NOW CLOSED  1 day event   University of Liverpool, Room 115, 126 Mount Pleasant, Liverpool, L69 7ZD

Come along for lunch, some short presentations, case studies and the opportunity to feed into our future plans.

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30 — 31
JAN

2020

HPC Carpentry Workshop

Registration is NOW CLOSED  2 day event   COM - G12, Computer Science Building

N8 CIR is delighted to support a new HPC Carpentry Workshop initiative

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