There are many actions researchers can take to increase the openness and reproducibility of their work. Please join us for a workshop, led by the Center for Open Science, to learn how to incorporate these into your own work. The workshop will be hands-on. Using example studies, attendees will actively participate in creating a reproducible project from start to finish. Topics will include: Project documentation, Version control, Pre-Analysis plans, and Open source tools like the Center for Open Science’s Open Science Framework to easily implement these concepts in a scientific workflow.

This workshop is aimed at graduate students and post docs, across disciplines, who are engaged in quantitative research. The workshop does not require any specialized knowledge of programming. Participants will gain a foundation for incorporating reproducible, transparent practices into their current workflows.

Spring UVa R UseR Meetup 

data.table package and support vector machines

Friday, April 8, 2016
3:00 PM
Ruffner Hall 302, Library Data Commons@Curry

It's been a while coming, but we have a spring useR meetup in the works! 
Matt Hawthorne,  a Master’s student in Data Science, will give us a demo of the data.table package. Bommae Kim, a PhD candidate in the Psychology department, will show us how to use support vector machines for character recognition. We're excited to have our first meetup with student presenters and hope you'll join us to learn about cool things you can do with R! Please let us know if you're planning on attending by going to the R Users Group Meetup site, and indicating that you'll be at the Meetup.

Advanced Research Computing Services (ARCS) Open House

http://arcs.virginia.edu/news/2016/02/26/arcs-open-house-scheduled-24-march-2016

Thursday, March 24, 2016
1:00 - 5:00 PM
112 Albert H. Small Building

Visit the ARCS’ second annual “Tacos and Tips on Supercomputing” open house event on Thursday, March 24 between 1 p.m. and 5 p.m. in room 112 of the Albert H. Small Building. Attendees will receive updates from ARCS staff on the University’s newest (and fastest) collection of supercomputing resources as well as tips on accessing Rivanna. Or tour the Visualization Laboratory— “Viz Lab”—which features a cool interactive touch table and a large high-resolution display wall. And help yourself to tacos, win a fabulous door prize, and watch a short video presentation by Cray, Inc!