Events

Mobile Apps like websites need to be built with accessibility in mind to comply with the WCAG 2.1 standard. Fortunately, Mobile devices themselves have a lot of accessibility features already built in. When...

LaTeX is a powerful typesetting system that is widely used for academic and professional documents, but it has a steep learning curve. Overleaf simplifies the process of working with LaTeX by providing an...

Do you use GitHub for version control? In this 90 minute hands-on workshop you will advance your GitHub prowess by learning how to use Github Actions to automatically and securely deploy source code across...

Jupyter Notebook, JupyterLab and Voilà are a powerful tool for interactive computing, for proof of concept implementations and for creating interactive web applications or dashboards. Come and learn how to...

The most widely used way to interact with computers is through a graphical user interface, for example, the desktop interface of Microsoft Windows or Mac OS. However, you can also use a text interface to...

Shell scripts enable users to link together multiple Linux commands into a single executable program. They can save users from a lot of wasted time, effort, and headache. For example, many researchers execute...

In this workshop the DCP will lead a training on how the design accessible data visualization for publication both into PDF and html in alignment with WCAG 2.1 AA guidance. Many people with disabilities use...

As artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and Large Language Models (LLM) technologies continue to evolve, they offer new possibilities for humanities research, from large-scale text and image...

This workshop will cover running Large Language Models (LLMs) on the Hoffman2 HPC cluster using Ollama for inference and Open WebUI for an easy-to-use interface. Participants will learn how to set up and...

This annual economic outlook will address a number of critical topics ranging from technology to the economic impact of the recent wildfires to what we anticipate will happen as a new presidential...

Are you doing research with surveys ( in RedCap or another survey tool) and paying an outside vendor to SMS links to your participants? Did you know that UCLA has a Mobile Messaging service that can send push...

In this workshop, participants will gain hands-on experience with the job scheduling system on the Hoffman2 cluster, the UCLA’s high-performance computing resource. Additionally, participants will learn how...

Machine learning has become a key element in science and technology today. Mastering libraries like scikit-learn—a vital tool for machine learning—is essential. In this workshop, you’ll receive a fundamental...

What is digital accessibility? How can the research enterprise be more prepared to be inclusive of people with disabilities. What should an IRB be evaluating in terms of digital accessibility? Strategic...

The analysis of binary outcomes is widespread across scientific fields. This workshop introduces the basics of the most commonly used statistical model for binary outcomes, logistic regression. Some basic...

Machine learning is playing an increasingly important role in science and technology. In this advanced session, we focus on leveraging scikit-learn for high-performance machine learning. We will explore how...

Are you interested in using LLMs for research? In this 90 minute hands-on workshop, you will learn how to install and deploy an open-source LLM on your local environment, create a Retrieval Augmented...

The purpose of this workshop is to show the use of the mixed command in SPSS. Although it has many uses, the mixed command is most commonly used for running linear mixed effects models (i.e., models that have...

Learn how to rapidly build a low cost AI prototype for research and education with custom GPTs, prompt engineering, and turn-key solutions from leading LLM providers.

This workshop provides an introduction to using multiple GPUs for high-performance computing. Participants will explore essential techniques and tools, including CUDA with C++ and Python, PyTorch, and MPI, to...

This workshop introduces power analysis and simulations to assess power and estimate sample sizes needed for sufficient power. We will begin with simple analyses such as the t-test and will work our way up to...

This workshop explores designing AI interfaces for research mobile apps, focusing on enhancing user experience. Participants will learn how to leverage Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures to...

Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs) have emerged as an important tool in causal modeling to understand the relationships among variables. DAGs can inform what variables should be included or excluded in a...

Does your research group leverage social media to promote your findings or published works? Do you mine social media data and then do analysis on this data in your research? If yes, learn how to do this in an...