ACENET: Programming Basics & Applications for Humanities & Social Science
Event Information
About this event
No prior experience with programming is required. Applications will include web scraping, survey field restriction, websites and text analysis.
Introduction to Unix Shell and Linux*
Websites and versioning with Git*
Regular Expressions
Python for Humanities*
Web Scraping with Python
*Workshop is entirely or partially based on Software-Carpentry (SWC) materials.
Participants are strongly encouraged to attend all five as later sessions build on previous material. You need to have a laptop with a Mac, Linux or Windows operating system (not a tablet, Chromebook, etc) on which you have administrative privileges, as you will need to pre-load specific software packages.
This workshop will take place on:
Thursday, November 5th - 9:00am - 1:00pm (Atlantic Time)
Thursday, November 12th - 9:00am - 1:00pm (Atlantic Time)
Thursday, November 19th - 9:00am - 1:00pm (Atlantic Time)
Thursday, November 26th - 9:00am - 1:00pm (Atlantic Time)
Thursday, December 3rd - 9:00am - 1:00pm (Atlantic Time)
Please see this link for Detailed Information.
Participants must register using their institutional / organizational email address (not a personal email, ie. gmail).
Organizer ACENET
Organizer of ACENET: Programming Basics & Applications for Humanities & Social Science
ACENET, a regional partner of Compute Canada, has been providing advanced computing resources, expertise and training in Atlantic Canada since 2003. It provides post-secondary institutional research teams and industry with desktop access to high performance computing (HPC), graphical processing unit (GPU), big data and cloud computing resources, storage, and a file transfer platform for terabytes of data.
Its technical staff of Research Consultants and Advanced Computing System Administrators are ready to assist users, providing in-depth consulting expertise in using the resources, group and individual training from novice to advanced, and ongoing user support.
