The Social Sciences D-Lab offers about 80 workshops every semester. D-Lab workshop instructors teach scholars how to use important software and tools that support their research.
We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated individual to lead two Excel workshops. These workshops are designed to equip attendees with fundamental and advanced Excel skills to effectively handle data, perform calculations, create charts, and utilize pivot tables.
Anticipate a commitment of 24-30 hours per semester. Availability for a continuous 3-hour period between Monday and Thursday, 9am-5pm, is required. Excel workshops are conducted both remotely and in-person, and the curriculum has already been established. Each workshop is presented twice within a semester. Additionally, there are two shorter, in-person workshops offered each semester, lasting approximately 90 minutes.
Required Qualifications:
Proficiency in Excel, with a strong understanding of functions, charts, pivot tables, and the VLOOKUP function.
Excellent communication and presentation skills.
Previous teaching or training experience is a plus.
Ability to adapt to different learning styles and levels of proficiency.
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.
For our second meeting, Professor Clancy Wilmott, an Assistant Professor in Critical Cartography, Geovisualisation and Design in the Berkeley Centre for New Media and the Department of Geography, will be presenting on AI Maps!
Last Tuesday of most months!
November 28, 12:30pm-1:30pm
January 30, 12:30pm-1:30pm
February 27, 12:30pm-1:30pm
March 26, 12:30pm-1:30pm
April 30, 12:30pm-1:30pm
Location: D-Lab, 356 Social Sciences Building, or join us via Zoom! Sponsors: This talk is made possible by the DH Working Group, the D-Lab, and the Library.
Over the last three decades, we have discovered over 5000 exoplanets, which are planets outside of our Solar System. With these observations, we can try to answer many questions we have about the universe. For example, how unique is the Solar System? How do planets form? Is there life elsewhere in the Milky Way? We can query the NASA Exoplanet Archive to compare multi-planet systems to the Solar System. Through this, we can compare how similar (or dissimilar!) the systems are.
The Division of Social Sciences is pleased to announce a request for proposals for funding from
the Abigail Reynolds Hodgen Publication Fund. This endowment was established in 1937 to
assist with the publication of manuscripts by women graduate students or women faculty
(members of the Academic Senate) in the Social Sciences.
Women-identified Senate faculty and graduate students in the Social Sciences are eligible to apply. Awards are up to a maximum of $20,000. Proposals are restricted to those that require funding for publication costs, which includes manuscript workshops. Proposals need not be more than one or two pages. They should include the manuscript title, a brief description of the project, and a budget breaking out the different items on which funds are to be spent.
Applications are being accepted on a rolling basis.
OpenAI is seeking current Bio or BioChem students (undergrad, Masters, or PhD candidates) to participate in the OpenAI Preparedness Program, a research experiment that will probe our AI frontier models for biologically related risks. The opportunity pays $75-$100/hr depending on current level of education, and the experiment spans 5 hours.
To help us better understand the risks from biology-related capabilities in search and language models, we are asking experts to help us probe the frontiers of these tools. In a virtually proctored setting spanning 5 hours or less, we will be asking you to use a set of (randomly assigned) digital tools (which may include our frontier language models) to complete a set of puzzles related to biologically-related risks, e.g., try to find instructions to do X, try to find suppliers to do Y.
We are delighted to announce our Data Science Discovery Symposium, a showcase of over 130 research projects from various domains such as healthcare, environmental science, industry, and social impact. This is a great opportunity for you to network with student researchers and learn from their experiences working with partners from academia, government, non-profit organizations, and industry.
Please confirm your attendance by responding to the Google Calendar invite by filling out this RSVP form!
Date: Tuesday, December 5, 2023, 1pm-4pm Location: Moore Lobby, Hearst Memorial Mining Building
Coming in 2024, California Research Bureau is launching CRB Nexus: Where Policy Meets Research! CRB Nexus is a community of practice for policy staff and researchers across California to initiate and build relationships, share policy needs and solutions, and find ways to move those ideas into action to benefit all Californians.
Together with co-hosts UC Berkeley Institute for Governmental Studies and UC Irvine School of Social Ecology, CRB Nexus will host 9 virtual events in 2024 featuring partner-recommended researchers by policy area.
The mission of the California Research Bureau is to provide nonpartisan and confidential public policy research for the Governor’s Office and the State Legislature and to advance equitable access via statewide initiatives.
Save the Dates:
Jan 26, 2024 - CRB Nexus Higher Education Panel
Feb 23, 2024 - CRB Nexus Economics, Labor, and Employment Panel
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