The UC Berkeley Digital Humanities Working Group is a research community founded to facilitate interdisciplinary conversations in the digital humanities and cultural analytics. Our gatherings are participant driven and provide a place for sharing research ideas (including brainstorming new ideas and receiving feedback from others), learning about the intersection of computational methods and humanistic inquiry, and connecting with others working in this space at Berkeley. We encourage everyone to participate, regardless of your experience level. The DH Working Group is a welcoming and supportive community for all things digital humanities.
Interested in learning how to merge data and metadata from multiple sources into a consolidated dataset? Dealing with annotated audio and want to automate your workflow? Tried Praat scripting but want something more streamlined? This blog post will walk through some key domain-specific Python-based tools you will need in order to take your audio data, annotations, and speaker metadata and come away with a tabular dataset containing acoustic measures, ready to visualize and submit to statistical analysis. This tutorial uses acoustic phonetics data, but can be adapted to a range of projects involving repeated measures data and/or work with audio files.
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Learn about protecting research data while traveling. Research data are the property of The Regents of the University of California regardless of the medium or ownership where the research data is collected or stored. This includes research data that is collected or stored on personal devices.
Guest Speaker: Brian Warshawsky, Director of Research Ethics and Compliance
Dates/Times: Fri, November 15, 2024, @ 12pm-1pm Location: Remote via Zoom
Youth and Allies Against Homelessness (YAAH) within i4Y (Innovations for Youth) is seeking a Graduate Student Researcher with strong quantitative research skills to join a multidisciplinary team for a 50% position for Spring 2025, with the hope that the candidate will continue in Summer and Fall 2025. This GSR position provides the opportunity to join a multidisciplinary lab committed to giving the candidate an opportunity to expand their quantitative skills with the aim of producing research with direct impact on the wellbeing of marginalized populations at the state and national levels.
The focus of the GSR’s work will be to support the quantitative work of YAAH, with the support of Dr. Auerswald (project PI), Prof. Paul Wesson (co-investigator, UCSF Department of Epidemiology), and project postdoctoral scholars.
To apply, please send your CV, cover letter, and the names of 2 references who are familiar with your work and skills to i4Y@berkeley.edu and siti@berkeley.edu. In your cover letter, please share why you are interested in the position, your goals for the position, and your availability for a position in the summer and/or fall 2025, if mutually agreeable.
We are excited to invite students to collaborate on a research project with Professor Clancy Wilmott, exploring Pasifika Geographies and their digital representations. We are looking for motivated individuals with skills in spatial data analysis, GIS, database management, web development, full-stack development, or GIS web development to bring this innovative project to life. This is a unique opportunity to apply technical skills to a project with deep cultural and geographical significance.
To apply, send a brief statement of interest and your resume/CV to clancy.wilmottATberkeley.edu. Highlight relevant experience and why you're excited about the project. Students from all academic backgrounds, especially those interested in indigenous studies, geography, and digital humanities, are encouraged to apply.
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Introduction to High Performance Computing with Savio Research IT
Research IT is offering an introductory training session on using Savio, the campus Linux high-performance computing cluster. We will give an overview of how the cluster is set up, different ways you can get access to the cluster, logging in, transferring files, accessing software on the system, and submitting and monitoring jobs. New, prospective, and current users of Savio and other campus high performance computing (HPC) clusters (Cortex and Vector) are invited.
There are no prerequisites, but it will be helpful to have a Savio account that you are able to log in to and to have a little bit of familiarity with using a UNIX-style command line (e.g., the Terminal on a Mac, or using the Linux command line). After the training, we'll have an informal get-together with pizza.
Dates/Times: Thurs, November 14, @ 3:40pm-5pm Location: 117 Dwinelle (Academic Innovation Studio) and Remote via Zoom
We're excited to announce that the 13th BITSS Annual Meeting will be held at UC Berkeley on Thursday, February 27! This one-day event will bring together leading voices from academia, policy, and the scholarly publishing world to discuss new research and developments in research transparency, reproducibility, and ethics.
We are thrilled to welcome Brian Nosek as our keynote speaker. Brian is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Center for Open Science (COS), where he leads initiatives designed to increase the openness, integrity, and reproducibility of research across disciplines. Brian will share his insights into how the research culture is evolving and what we, as a community, can do to push these changes further. We look forward to an engaging discussion on the role of institutions, researchers, and systemic reforms in fostering scientific progress.
If you are interested in presenting your research at the Annual Meeting, please submit your presentation ideas here by November 17, 2024. We look forward to reviewing your submissions!
Join us for presentations, lightning talks, and a virtual map/poster gallery, all centering on geospatial research and applications. Attend one or multiple sessions of this event, which is thought to be one of the largest GIS Day observations in the world. Students, researchers and instructors from across the University of California will share their cutting-edge knowledge and expertise with each other and with the wider community. All sessions are free and open to the public!
Although most sessions will be virtual, join us for two in-person sessions at UC Berkeley:
Mapathon - Tues, Nov 19, 11am-2pm (drop-in)
Earth Sciences & Map Library seminar room, 50 McCone Hall
Hosted by the Library & the GIS & Mapping Community of Practice
UC Berkeley Research Lightning Talks - Fri, Nov 22, 12:10pm-1:30pm
103 Mulford Hall
Hosted by the GIF (Geospatial Innovation Facility)
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