Edinburgh Centre for Data, Culture & Society
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Save the date for our December Fika!
No agenda, no action items: just a group of people gathering to discuss their projects, ideas and research approaches over refreshments.
📆 Tue 02 Dec
🔗https://edin.ac/3J8EcC9
No agenda, no action items: just a group of people gathering to discuss their projects, ideas and research approaches over refreshments.
📆 Tue 02 Dec
🔗https://edin.ac/3J8EcC9
November 11, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Save the date for our December Fika!
No agenda, no action items: just a group of people gathering to discuss their projects, ideas and research approaches over refreshments.
📆 Tue 02 Dec
🔗https://edin.ac/3J8EcC9
No agenda, no action items: just a group of people gathering to discuss their projects, ideas and research approaches over refreshments.
📆 Tue 02 Dec
🔗https://edin.ac/3J8EcC9
Save the date for Using Prompting Efficiently for Research! You'll learn practical prompting strategies for tools like ChatGPT, their strengths and limits, and how to use them responsibly.
Beginner friendly.
📆 Thu 4 Dec
🔗https://edin.ac/4hc8r7r
Beginner friendly.
📆 Thu 4 Dec
🔗https://edin.ac/4hc8r7r
November 11, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Save the date for Using Prompting Efficiently for Research! You'll learn practical prompting strategies for tools like ChatGPT, their strengths and limits, and how to use them responsibly.
Beginner friendly.
📆 Thu 4 Dec
🔗https://edin.ac/4hc8r7r
Beginner friendly.
📆 Thu 4 Dec
🔗https://edin.ac/4hc8r7r
Coming up next week! Join us for this online session where you'll learn how to build an interactive map in Python and Folium.
Previous knowledge of Python required.
📆 Mon 17 Nov
🔗https://edin.ac/47772L3
Previous knowledge of Python required.
📆 Mon 17 Nov
🔗https://edin.ac/47772L3
November 10, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Coming up next week! Join us for this online session where you'll learn how to build an interactive map in Python and Folium.
Previous knowledge of Python required.
📆 Mon 17 Nov
🔗https://edin.ac/47772L3
Previous knowledge of Python required.
📆 Mon 17 Nov
🔗https://edin.ac/47772L3
Join us this Monday for our Digital Method of the Month on data visualisation!
Beginner-friendly.
📆 Mon 10 Nov
🔗https://edin.ac/43agFr0
Beginner-friendly.
📆 Mon 10 Nov
🔗https://edin.ac/43agFr0
November 7, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Join us this Monday for our Digital Method of the Month on data visualisation!
Beginner-friendly.
📆 Mon 10 Nov
🔗https://edin.ac/43agFr0
Beginner-friendly.
📆 Mon 10 Nov
🔗https://edin.ac/43agFr0
Join us next week for an Introduction to Epistemic Analysis! We'll cover the workflow from segmenting and coding to building and interpreting networks.
Beginner friendly.
📆 Fri 14 Nov
🔗https://edin.ac/4nRkF8g
Beginner friendly.
📆 Fri 14 Nov
🔗https://edin.ac/4nRkF8g
November 7, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Join us next week for an Introduction to Epistemic Analysis! We'll cover the workflow from segmenting and coding to building and interpreting networks.
Beginner friendly.
📆 Fri 14 Nov
🔗https://edin.ac/4nRkF8g
Beginner friendly.
📆 Fri 14 Nov
🔗https://edin.ac/4nRkF8g
Save the date for our Introduction to Geographical Data with QGIS course! You'll start with the fundamentals then practise working with layers, imports and basic visualisation.
Beginner friendly.
📆 Fri 28 Nov
🔗https://edin.ac/3LbgYeV
Beginner friendly.
📆 Fri 28 Nov
🔗https://edin.ac/3LbgYeV
November 6, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Save the date for our Introduction to Geographical Data with QGIS course! You'll start with the fundamentals then practise working with layers, imports and basic visualisation.
Beginner friendly.
📆 Fri 28 Nov
🔗https://edin.ac/3LbgYeV
Beginner friendly.
📆 Fri 28 Nov
🔗https://edin.ac/3LbgYeV
Save the date for our course on using API for Research! We'll cover what APIs are, what they do, and how to use them to access and connect data sources
📆 Wed 26 Nov
🔗https://edin.ac/49ayRo6
📆 Wed 26 Nov
🔗https://edin.ac/49ayRo6
November 5, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Save the date for our course on using API for Research! We'll cover what APIs are, what they do, and how to use them to access and connect data sources
📆 Wed 26 Nov
🔗https://edin.ac/49ayRo6
📆 Wed 26 Nov
🔗https://edin.ac/49ayRo6
Our BYOD Festival is tomorrow! Bring a messy dataset (or work on our sample) and get hands-on support to clean and prepare it for analysis in R or Python.
📆 Wed 5 Nov
🔗https://edin.ac/3VTOhFK
Beginner-friendly.
📆 Wed 5 Nov
🔗https://edin.ac/3VTOhFK
Beginner-friendly.
November 4, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Our BYOD Festival is tomorrow! Bring a messy dataset (or work on our sample) and get hands-on support to clean and prepare it for analysis in R or Python.
📆 Wed 5 Nov
🔗https://edin.ac/3VTOhFK
Beginner-friendly.
📆 Wed 5 Nov
🔗https://edin.ac/3VTOhFK
Beginner-friendly.
Join us next week for Digital Method of the Month: Data Visualisation! Explore core principles, common pitfalls and which tools to try, with time for questions.
Beginner friendly.
📆 Mon 10 Nov
🔗https://edin.ac/43agFr0
Beginner friendly.
📆 Mon 10 Nov
🔗https://edin.ac/43agFr0
November 3, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Join us next week for Digital Method of the Month: Data Visualisation! Explore core principles, common pitfalls and which tools to try, with time for questions.
Beginner friendly.
📆 Mon 10 Nov
🔗https://edin.ac/43agFr0
Beginner friendly.
📆 Mon 10 Nov
🔗https://edin.ac/43agFr0
Our next Silent Disco is tomorrow! Using the fastai Python library and historical newspaper imagery, you'll build, train, and evaluate image classification models.
This workshop requires some prior knowledge.
📆 Tue 4 Nov
🔗https://edin.ac/479AEbL
This workshop requires some prior knowledge.
📆 Tue 4 Nov
🔗https://edin.ac/479AEbL
November 3, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Our next Silent Disco is tomorrow! Using the fastai Python library and historical newspaper imagery, you'll build, train, and evaluate image classification models.
This workshop requires some prior knowledge.
📆 Tue 4 Nov
🔗https://edin.ac/479AEbL
This workshop requires some prior knowledge.
📆 Tue 4 Nov
🔗https://edin.ac/479AEbL
Save the date for our Digital Method of the Month! We'll look at what GIS can do for your research, how to get started, common pitfalls and tools to try.
Beginner friendly.
📆 Fri 21 Nov
🔗 https://edin.ac/494J4T7
Beginner friendly.
📆 Fri 21 Nov
🔗 https://edin.ac/494J4T7
October 31, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Save the date for our Digital Method of the Month! We'll look at what GIS can do for your research, how to get started, common pitfalls and tools to try.
Beginner friendly.
📆 Fri 21 Nov
🔗 https://edin.ac/494J4T7
Beginner friendly.
📆 Fri 21 Nov
🔗 https://edin.ac/494J4T7
Join us next month for "Who Speaks Scots Where: What Crowdsourcing Reveals", an exciting project deep dive where new insights from the “Speak for Yersel" project will be unveiled.
📆 Mon 17 Nov
🔗https://edin.ac/4nQwb3x
📆 Mon 17 Nov
🔗https://edin.ac/4nQwb3x
Who Speaks Scots Where: What Crowdsourcing Reveals
In this paper, Jennifer and Brian present findings from a new crowdsourced resource - Speak for Yersel
edin.ac
October 30, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Join us next month for "Who Speaks Scots Where: What Crowdsourcing Reveals", an exciting project deep dive where new insights from the “Speak for Yersel" project will be unveiled.
📆 Mon 17 Nov
🔗https://edin.ac/4nQwb3x
📆 Mon 17 Nov
🔗https://edin.ac/4nQwb3x
Save the date for our Text Classification in Practice course! You'll build and evaluate text classifiers in Python with Google Colab, covering feature-based, sequence and transformer approaches.
Previous knowledge required.
📆 Thu 20 Nov
🔗https://edin.ac/4h9RURL
Previous knowledge required.
📆 Thu 20 Nov
🔗https://edin.ac/4h9RURL
October 30, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Save the date for our Text Classification in Practice course! You'll build and evaluate text classifiers in Python with Google Colab, covering feature-based, sequence and transformer approaches.
Previous knowledge required.
📆 Thu 20 Nov
🔗https://edin.ac/4h9RURL
Previous knowledge required.
📆 Thu 20 Nov
🔗https://edin.ac/4h9RURL
Join us next week for our BYOD Festival! You’ll work on your own data (or a sample) with support from our data coaches to build a reproducible cleaning pipeline in R or Python.
📆 Wed 5 Nov
🔗https://edin.ac/3VTOhFK
Beginner-friendly.
📆 Wed 5 Nov
🔗https://edin.ac/3VTOhFK
Beginner-friendly.
October 29, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Join us next week for our BYOD Festival! You’ll work on your own data (or a sample) with support from our data coaches to build a reproducible cleaning pipeline in R or Python.
📆 Wed 5 Nov
🔗https://edin.ac/3VTOhFK
Beginner-friendly.
📆 Wed 5 Nov
🔗https://edin.ac/3VTOhFK
Beginner-friendly.
Join us in 2 days for Foundations of Webscraping! Learn the essentials, then work through scraping a static site with R or Python.
Familiarity with R or Python preferable.
📆 Thu 30 Oct
🔗https://edin.ac/3KENAh1
Familiarity with R or Python preferable.
📆 Thu 30 Oct
🔗https://edin.ac/3KENAh1
October 28, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Join us in 2 days for Foundations of Webscraping! Learn the essentials, then work through scraping a static site with R or Python.
Familiarity with R or Python preferable.
📆 Thu 30 Oct
🔗https://edin.ac/3KENAh1
Familiarity with R or Python preferable.
📆 Thu 30 Oct
🔗https://edin.ac/3KENAh1
Next week! Join us for our Silent Disco where you'll build, train, and evaluate image classification models
Some Python and Jupyter experience required.
📆 Tue 4 Nov
🔗https://edin.ac/479AEbL
Some Python and Jupyter experience required.
📆 Tue 4 Nov
🔗https://edin.ac/479AEbL
October 28, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Next week! Join us for our Silent Disco where you'll build, train, and evaluate image classification models
Some Python and Jupyter experience required.
📆 Tue 4 Nov
🔗https://edin.ac/479AEbL
Some Python and Jupyter experience required.
📆 Tue 4 Nov
🔗https://edin.ac/479AEbL
Save the date for our Silent Disco on choropleth maps! Learn to load and join geospatial data, handle uneven distributions, add pop-ups and interactivity, and export a shareable web map.
Prior knowledge of Python required.
📆Mon 17 Nov
🔗 https://edin.ac/47772L3
Prior knowledge of Python required.
📆Mon 17 Nov
🔗 https://edin.ac/47772L3
October 27, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Save the date for our Silent Disco on choropleth maps! Learn to load and join geospatial data, handle uneven distributions, add pop-ups and interactivity, and export a shareable web map.
Prior knowledge of Python required.
📆Mon 17 Nov
🔗 https://edin.ac/47772L3
Prior knowledge of Python required.
📆Mon 17 Nov
🔗 https://edin.ac/47772L3
Join us in 2 days for our Digital Method of the Month! We'll be looking at the strengths and weaknesses of LLMs and exploring how they can be integrated into research workflows.
Beginner friendly.
📆 Wed 29 Oct
🔗https://edin.ac/4h9C89l
Beginner friendly.
📆 Wed 29 Oct
🔗https://edin.ac/4h9C89l
October 27, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Join us in 2 days for our Digital Method of the Month! We'll be looking at the strengths and weaknesses of LLMs and exploring how they can be integrated into research workflows.
Beginner friendly.
📆 Wed 29 Oct
🔗https://edin.ac/4h9C89l
Beginner friendly.
📆 Wed 29 Oct
🔗https://edin.ac/4h9C89l
Save the date for an Introduction to Epistemic Network Analysis! You'll learn how to model connections in qualitative data and visualise them with the ENA Web Tool.
Beginner friendly.
📆 Fri 14 Nov
🔗https://edin.ac/4nRkF8g
Beginner friendly.
📆 Fri 14 Nov
🔗https://edin.ac/4nRkF8g
October 24, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Save the date for an Introduction to Epistemic Network Analysis! You'll learn how to model connections in qualitative data and visualise them with the ENA Web Tool.
Beginner friendly.
📆 Fri 14 Nov
🔗https://edin.ac/4nRkF8g
Beginner friendly.
📆 Fri 14 Nov
🔗https://edin.ac/4nRkF8g
Coming up next week! Join us for Foundations of Webscraping where we'll start with responsible practice, then learn to read HTML structure and collect content from a static site in R or Python.
Basic R or Python knowledge helpful.
📆 Thu 30 Oct
🔗https://edin.ac/3KENAh1
Basic R or Python knowledge helpful.
📆 Thu 30 Oct
🔗https://edin.ac/3KENAh1
October 23, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Coming up next week! Join us for Foundations of Webscraping where we'll start with responsible practice, then learn to read HTML structure and collect content from a static site in R or Python.
Basic R or Python knowledge helpful.
📆 Thu 30 Oct
🔗https://edin.ac/3KENAh1
Basic R or Python knowledge helpful.
📆 Thu 30 Oct
🔗https://edin.ac/3KENAh1
Coming up next week! Join us to learn more about what LLMs can and cannot do.
Beginner-friendly.
📆 Wed 29 Oct
🔗https://edin.ac/4h9C89l
Beginner-friendly.
📆 Wed 29 Oct
🔗https://edin.ac/4h9C89l
October 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Coming up next week! Join us to learn more about what LLMs can and cannot do.
Beginner-friendly.
📆 Wed 29 Oct
🔗https://edin.ac/4h9C89l
Beginner-friendly.
📆 Wed 29 Oct
🔗https://edin.ac/4h9C89l
This week! Join us to create a systematic and reproducible data tidying workflow in R. We’ll look at all stages, from uploading and merging to cleaning, creating variables and exporting.
📆 Fri 24 Oct
🔗https://edin.ac/3IIQCAi
📆 Fri 24 Oct
🔗https://edin.ac/3IIQCAi
October 22, 2025 at 9:00 AM
This week! Join us to create a systematic and reproducible data tidying workflow in R. We’ll look at all stages, from uploading and merging to cleaning, creating variables and exporting.
📆 Fri 24 Oct
🔗https://edin.ac/3IIQCAi
📆 Fri 24 Oct
🔗https://edin.ac/3IIQCAi
This week, join us to get hands-on with version control in Git and GitHub Desktop!
Beginner-friendly.
📆 Thu 23 Oct
🔗https://edin.ac/3WfMgUf
Beginner-friendly.
📆 Thu 23 Oct
🔗https://edin.ac/3WfMgUf
October 21, 2025 at 9:00 AM
This week, join us to get hands-on with version control in Git and GitHub Desktop!
Beginner-friendly.
📆 Thu 23 Oct
🔗https://edin.ac/3WfMgUf
Beginner-friendly.
📆 Thu 23 Oct
🔗https://edin.ac/3WfMgUf
Curious about data visualisation? Join us for our Digital Method of the Month where we'll look at good practice, common pitfalls and tools to help you create clear, reproducible visuals.
Beginner-friendly.
📆 Mon 10 Nov
🔗https://edin.ac/43agFr0
Beginner-friendly.
📆 Mon 10 Nov
🔗https://edin.ac/43agFr0
October 20, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Curious about data visualisation? Join us for our Digital Method of the Month where we'll look at good practice, common pitfalls and tools to help you create clear, reproducible visuals.
Beginner-friendly.
📆 Mon 10 Nov
🔗https://edin.ac/43agFr0
Beginner-friendly.
📆 Mon 10 Nov
🔗https://edin.ac/43agFr0
Join us next week to create a systematic and reproducible data tidying workflow in R. We’ll look at the whole pipeline, from importing and merging to cleaning, creating variables and exporting.
📆 Fri 24 Oct
🔗https://edin.ac/3IIQCAi
📆 Fri 24 Oct
🔗https://edin.ac/3IIQCAi
October 17, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Join us next week to create a systematic and reproducible data tidying workflow in R. We’ll look at the whole pipeline, from importing and merging to cleaning, creating variables and exporting.
📆 Fri 24 Oct
🔗https://edin.ac/3IIQCAi
📆 Fri 24 Oct
🔗https://edin.ac/3IIQCAi