We’re kicking-off Bike Month Guelph with a campus celebration in Branion Plaza! Come join us to learn about biking resources on campus, meet other people who bike to campus and have a chance to win a local-business prize pack. Hospitality Services has generously donated free coffee vouchers for the first 30 people who bike to

Excel is a popular tool that provides many powerful features that can assist you in managing your data and help to better understand small and large datasets. While not as robust as other data visualization tools, it can be used for visualizing your data through its charting features. Come learn how to create charts using

Network data is all around us, but it takes a keen eye to see the hidden structure and patterns in the data. By visualizing network data we can expose this hidden information and study it. In this introductory workshop, you’ll learn to use Gephi to create visualizations and learn more about the structure of the

SPSS is a statistical software package, used in various disciplines. The purpose of this workshop is to introduce students to the software as well as its different functions and commands. The basics of statistical analysis and interpretation using SPSS will be covered, in addition to topics like data entry, manipulation and interpretation. This is an

SPSS is a statistical software package, used in various disciplines. The purpose of this workshop is to introduce students to the software as well as its different functions and commands. The basics of statistical analysis and interpretation using SPSS will be covered, in addition to topics like data entry, manipulation and interpretation. This is an

From May 31 to June 7, U of G will fly the Pride flag to celebrate and honour the LGBTQ2IA+ community. LGBTQ2IA+ represents Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning, Two-Spirit, Intersex, Asexual and many other identities that fall outside of heterosexual and cisgender paradigms. Take part in the official flag raising Friday, May 31 at

Please join us as we celebrate World No Tobacco Day and mark our Guelph campus’s first day as a tobacco- and smoke-free space. As we celebrate this important step to make a healthier campus for everyone, we support the efforts of Indigenous communities to become tobacco-wise and keep tobacco sacred. Drop by Johnston Green to

Join Provost Charlotte Yates for an update town hall discussion on the 2019-20 University budget. All are welcome to attend.

R is an open source software environment for data manipulation and statistical analysis. Used in a variety of disciplines, R has become a popular tool because of its power, flexibility and active community. Join us as we teach the R language fundamentals and basic syntax, major R data structures and generate basic statistical analysis. This

R is a programming language and environment for statistical computing and graphics. This workshop will introduce you to the dplyr package which makes tabular data manipulations easier by using a set of functions to extract and summarize insights from your data. The tidyr package works well with tidyr to quickly convert between different data formats

Data can empower your organization to create stronger proposals, develop evidence-informed programs and demonstrate impact. However, it can be difficult to know where to find it and what to do with it. McLaughlin Library has partnered with the Community Engaged Scholarship Institute and 10C Shared Space to create this three-hour introduction to data workshop. In

Look and feel like a pro with SAS! SAS is a statistical software package that is widely used in many disciplines. In just a few hours you will be ready to use this easy software. In Part I and II of this workshop, you will learn how to maneuver in the SAS interface, import and

Look and feel like a pro with SAS! SAS is a statistical software package that is widely used in many disciplines. In just a few hours, you will be ready to use this easy software. In Part I and II of this workshop, you will learn how to maneuver in the SAS interface, import and

U of G honorary doctorate recipient Prof. Sir Chris Llewellyn Smith, FRS, Oxford Physics, presents a public talk "Can Future Needs be Met Sustainably?" Global energy consumption is increasing rapidly, driven by rising living standards in developing countries. Decarbonisation is imperative to reduce air pollution, rebalance relations between oil producing and importing countries and moderate

U of G honorary doctorate recipient Prof. Sir Chris Llewellyn Smith, FRS, Oxford Physics, presents a public talk "Science Diplomacy". Science Diplomacy is a term that has come to be used to describe almost all activities that involve both science/scientists and international relations/politicians/diplomats. In his presentation, Prof. Sir Chris Llewellyn Smith will discuss examples, successes

The 2019 Chappel Memorial Lecture presents Dr. John Hogenesch, Ohio Eminent Scholar and Professor of Pediatrics at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center in the Divisions of Human Genetics and Immunobiology. The Hogenesch lab has led in research into the transcriptional outputs of the clock in animal models and humans. This work is leading to a

In this workshop you will learn how to recognize the issues that reproducible research helps address. Then you will learn the important roles of documentation, sharing, automation and organization in making research reproducible. You will be introduced to tools (R/RMarkdown/Git and GitHub) that can be used to make your research reproducible. This workshop is for

Public presentation by honorary doctorate recipient Professor Ronald Deibert, Director of Citizen Lab, University of Toronto While the Internet and other digital media offer enormous practical benefits to large segments of society, they also create new and unforeseen risks. Over the last decade, the Citizen Lab (based at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of

Connect over an 18-hole game of golf and dinner with fellow grads and colleagues who support U of G's Real Estate and Housing (REH) program! Individual or group registration available. Golfers will have the opportunity to win prizes. Dinner-only options are also available for guests. Register online.

NVivo is a qualitative data analysis (QDA) computer software package produced by QSR International. In this workshop, we will work cover topics such as bringing in sources, creating nodes, coding and running queries. This is an introductory workshop intended for students, faculty and staff with minimal to no knowledge of NVivo. A basic understanding of

Join the library for the launch of our newest exhibit Brutalism at Guelph: Concrete in a New Light. This exhibition highlights Brutalism—an architectural style that rose to popularity during the 1960s—and the impact it had at U of G. The exhibit will explore what we can learn from this building style, and how its attitude

A schedule for public presentations by the two short-listed candidates for the position of Dean of the Gordon S. Lang School of Business and Economics has been established as follows: Candidate #1 Monday, June 24 - 9 a.m. – 10 a.m., Macdonald Hall, Room 149 Candidate #2 Wednesday, June 26 - 9 a.m. – 10

A schedule for public presentations by the two short-listed candidates for the position of Dean of the Gordon S. Lang School of Business and Economics has been established as follows: Candidate #1 Monday, June 24 - 9 a.m. – 10 a.m., Macdonald Hall, Room 149 Candidate #2 Wednesday, June 26 - 9 a.m. – 10

Are you interested in uncovering patterns across vast amount of textual information? Come to this workshop to learn about distant reading techniques that address word count and location. Attendees will get hands on experience exploring entry level tools such as Google Ngram, Voyant, and AntConc. Please bring a laptop for your own use during the

Please join us June 28 to kick off the Office of Teaching and Learning’s Instructional Inclusivity Seminar Series!  Office of Teaching and Learning Presentation and Discussion: June 28, 1969. Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera (two trans women of colour, drag queens and LGBTQ activists and heroines) threw the first brick (Johnson) and the first