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Past Events

The N8 CIR runs regular meetings to build communities of practice and research interests combined with training to improve the computational skills of the community. These are meetings that have been held in the last year. Selected recordings from these events can be found on our Event Resources pages.

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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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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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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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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