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Page:Carpentries Program — The Carpentries teach foundational computational, coding, and data science skills to researchers, staff, and information professionals worldwide with no or minimal prior programming knowledge who find themselves increasingly having to write code to conduct their work. The Data Science Center manages the Carpentries membership for the Library and organizes workshop for the campus community.
Owner: Tim Dennis
Workshop Details
- Types of Workshops: Software Carpentry, Data Carpentry, and Library Carpentry.
- Skills Covered: Basic programming, data manipulation and visualization, version control with Git, and data management best practices.
Audience
- Target Audience: Researchers, staff, faculty, and students across various disciplines.
Outcomes
- Expected Outcomes: Improved computational skills, enhanced data management capabilities, and increased confidence in using coding and data tools.
Instructors
- Qualifications: Workshops are taught by certified Carpentries instructors who are engaged in their fields and skilled in collaborative teaching methods.
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Page:Data & Coding Support — The Data Science Center provides coding or programming support for data and computational intensive projects. We can help you get started with programming, debugging, refactoring your existing code and testing your programs.
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Page:Finding Data Sources — Whether you are looking for research data, or looking to practice your data science skills, below are some data collections we recommend.
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Page:Geospatial services (GIS) — The Library Data Science Center provides consultation on geospatial thinking, analysis, visualization, and tools to the research community. We support researchers by providing consultation on geospatial information systems (GIS), remote sensing, and geospatial web applications, as well as discovery, creation, and management of geospatial data.
Have questions? Send an email to the Library's Data Science Center (datascience+gis@ucla.edu) or Schedule a meeting.
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Geospatial data acquisition
We will provide guidance for a variety of types of geospatial data acquisition. We can help you with finding the existing secondary data or help you with extracting the first-hand geospatial data (e.g. export the X Y coordinates from a GPS device).
Geospatial data management
From geospatial data collection, processing, preservation, and dissemination, we provide a full life cycle of geospatial data service. Plans will be tailored to meet your specific purposes.
Geographic Analysis Science (GIS) software instruction
We provide instructional support for using GIS software, such as QGIS, ArcGIS, and GeoDA.
Geospatial data visualization (static and dynamic maps)
We provide assistance for mapping high quality and designed static or dynamic maps (e.g. online maps) by using GIS software, R or Python packages.
Geospatial analysis support
WIth expertises in analyzing geospatial data, we support students, faculty, and staff with geospatial analysis on the basis of spatial theories and help them apply geospatial techniques to meeting their needs in research and projects.
Learning
These are the courses offered at different departments at UCLA. The Department of Geography offers a GIS and Geospatial Technology Certificate once you complete the required courses.
Institute for Digital Research & Education (IDRE) offers a series of GIS workshops regularly. The workshops cover geospatial acquisition, mapping, ArcGIS online, story maps, and spatial analysis techniques.
GIS books
Essentials of Geographic Information Systems
Principles of Geographic Information Systems
GIS Fundamentals (Sixth Edition) (Textbook)
ESRI MOOC (Massive Open Online Course)
This is a platform offering free online GIS courses by ESRI. ESRI is an international company that provides Web GIS service and GIS software, such as ArcGIS. These courses are constantly updated and can give you a broad overview about GIS and the frontier development of GIS.
QGIS (Quantum GIS) is a leading free and open source GIS software. It supports viewing, editing, and analysis of geospatial data. It has a large and dynamic community contributing to GIS development through developing add-ons and instructional documents.
Data resources
Dataverse is an open source web application to share, preserve, cite, explore, and analyze research data. Dataverse was initiated by Harvard University, along with many contributors and institutions. As a collaborator and contributor, UCLA Library Data Science Center provides access to UCLA Dataverse, where you can find geospatial and social science data.
This is a data portal where you can search for geospatial data.
TIGER represents Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing, developed by the United States Census Bureau. TIGER provides geospatial/map data includes land features, such as roads, rivers, and lake, and administrative boundaries, such state, county, census tract, census block group, and census block.
This is a data portal for accessing satellite imagery, developed by USGS (United States Geological Survey). To download the data, you need to register first. The data are free.
Data and Tools are products of USGS, providing both raster and vector by themes and topics. The topics include Biology and Ecosystems, Coasts, Energy, Environment Health, Geology, Land Resources, Mapping, Remote Sensing, and Geospatial data, Minerals, Natural Hazards, Oceans, and Water.
TopView is an online data portal for accessing topographic maps, including US Topo series and earlier Historical Topographic Map Collection (HTMC). The term “US Topo” refers specifically to quadrangle topographic maps published in 2009 and later. HTMC provided map printed between 1884 and 2003. Currently, there are more than 178,000 maps in the HTMC and the collection continues to grow.
As the leading company in the GIS industry, ESRI builds and maintains a data hub that is free to the public. The content types provided by ESRI are Feature Layer, Raster Layer, Shapefile, and Tables.
This guide gives extensive information regarding geospatial data resources that are both available at different spatial scales and temporal scales.
GIS software UCLA
As a part of ESRI Geospatial Cloud, ArcGIS online enables people to create web map applications, such as Story Maps, Dashboards, Sites, and Web AppBuilder. People can share the applications with the world or specific groups. UCLA offers free accounts for ArcGIS online. Please contact the Library's Data Science Center (datascience+gis@ucla.edu) for an account.
ArcGIS Pro is a single desktop GIS application, which is the upgraded version of ArcGIS desktop. ArcGIS Pro supports data visualization, advanced spatial analysis, and authoritative data maintenance in both 2D and 3D. ArcGIS Pro accounts are free for UCLA students. Please contact the Library's Data Science Center (datascience+gis@ucla.edu) for an account.
QGIS is a free and open-source cross-platform desktop geographic information system application that supports viewing, editing, and analysis of geospatial data.
GeoDa is a free software package that conducts spatial data analysis, geovisualization, spatial autocorrelation and spatial modeling.
This is an application offered by the Institute for Digital Research & Education (IDRE). You can apply this software to geocoding addresses. Geocoding is a process that converts a location address into geographical coordinates.
Georeferencer is an online tool that assigns geographical coordinates to any image. Application of this tool is free if the image is less than 100m.
Communities
GeoNet is where the GIS and geospatial professional community connect, collaborate and share experiences. You can find the answers for the GIS related problems you encounter and post questions to ask for help from the community.
Geographic Information Systems Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for cartographers, geographers and GIS professionals. Feel free to post questions and answers on this platform.
GIS Day is an international annual event that celebrates and promotes the application of GIS techniques in real lives to provide smart decisions. There is an active UC wide GIS community as well as the UCLA GIS community. The UCLA GIS Day will be held on Oct. 29th-30th, while the UC wide GIS Day will be held on Nov. 17th -19th. No GIS skills are needed to participate in this event.
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Page:Library Data Science Center — The Library Data Science Center (DSC) is here to help faculty, researchers, and students with their data science needs. We offer consultation, instruction, and programming on various topics, including data science basics, data sources, data management, data visualization, 3D scanning, and mapping. We also have a team of consultants who can help you with your specific data science projects.
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Page:Lynda.com — UCLA's subscription to Lynda.com tutorials for UCLA students, staff and faculty through https://oit.ucla.edu/it-training will be ending . There are other resources listed on that page but for Los Angeles County and Los Angeles city residents there are some options for Lynda.com access detailed below.
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Page:Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence (ML/AI) — The Data Science Center (DSC) ML/AI subgroup aims to provide guidance and support to students and researchers of all disciplines exploring modern data science methods, including ethical use of artificial intelligence and machine learning in their work.
The DSC ML/AI subgroup prioritizes providing an inclusive and accessible learning atmosphere for individuals of all backgrounds and levels of technical experience. As an organization, the DSC ML/AI subgroup adopts the Data Science Oath.
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Page:Search Engine Optimization (SEO) — SEO, or Search Engine Optimization, is a methodology of strategies, techniques and tactics used to increase the amount of visitors to a website by obtaining a high-ranking placement in the search results page of a search engine (SERP) -- including Google, Bing, Yahoo and other search engines.
UCLA Library DIIT (Digital Initiatives & Information Technology) works with the Library web support teams to ensure UCLA Library website and online instances follow good SEO practices during their production and maintenance.
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Page:Usability — Usability testing is used to evaluate a product or service by testing it on users. Usability testing will have greater impact if it is done early and often during a product or service implementation. Therefore, it is always advisable to consult DIIT for including usability testing in your project.
UCLA Library DIIT (Digital Initiatives & Information Technology) supports conducting usability studies for UCLA Library services and products.
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Page:Web accessibility — Web accessibility. In human–computer interaction, computer accessibility refers to the accessibility of a computer system to all people, regardless of disability type or severity of impairment. Resources are available to help Library web developers design sites that are accessible to persons with disabilities. (Wikipedia). Support is also available with conducting accessibility studies on UCLA Library projects and services.
UCLA Library DIIT (Digital Initiatives & Information Technology) supports accessibility testing and accommodation strategies for UCLA Library web presence. DIIT works with Library web support teams, vendors and the Office of Information Technology (OIT) Web Accessibility in this effort.
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