Category: Tools for Research

Workshop – Amazon Mechanical Turk

The Faculty of Social Science has organized a workshop on

Amazon Mechanical Turk

By

Taylor Kohut, Post-Doc (Psychology)

Monday, February 11th
10-11 am
SSC 5220

“Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) is a crowdsourcing marketplace that makes it easier for individuals and businesses to outsource their processes and jobs to a distributed workforce who can perform these tasks virtually. This could include anything from conducting simple data validation and research to more subjective tasks like survey participation, content moderation, and more. MTurk enables companies to harness the collective intelligence, skills, and insights from a global workforce to streamline business processes, augment data collection and analysis, and accelerate machine learning development.”

This workshop is open to faculty members, post-docs, graduate students as well as technical and research staff.

RSVP required. There are a limited number of spots available.

Please see the attached poster for further details.

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Research Skills Workshops this Fall @ Western Libraries

Western Libraries is offering several workshops this fall that can help you to better understand the scholarly publishing process, build and promote your scholarly identity, and teach you how to make the most of data and geographical information in your research.

Register Here

Upcoming Workshops:

  • How to Write a Great Research Paper, and Get it Accepted by a Good Journal: Understanding the Publishing Process
  • Building and Promoting Your Scholarly Identity
  • Before you Sign: Know your Academic Publishing Rights
  • How to Make a Map
  • Web Mapping
  • Telling Stories with Maps
  • Continuum of Data Access (Statistics Canada)
  • Visualizing Data

If you have ideas for other workshops they can offer, email
Western Libraries
Research and Scholarly Communication Team
Email: rsclib@uwo.ca

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The Conversation Canada – Research-Based Journalism

“Aiming to bridge the gap between the Ivory Tower and the general public, Western has committed to being a founding member of The Conversation Canada.

The Conversation, a daily independent news and analysis online publication, delivers expertise from the academic and research community directly to the public. In a not-for-profit collaboration, The Conversation editors work directly with academics and researchers to publish articles for a wide audience.”  More at this Western News story…

More on The Conversation Canada and how to contribute in this document.

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Research Analytics Tool, InCites Now Available to Western Researchers

Western is now subscribed to InCites which is a customized, citation-based research analytics tool. Research Western and Western Libraries are also in the process of hiring a bibliometrician to support the research community in the use of this program as well as other needs in this area.  Access to InCites is now available to all Western faculty, staff and students on campus computers via incites.thomsonreuters.com

Please see attached memo from John Capone, VP Research for more information.

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NVivo – Webinar

This webinar Using NVivo as a Research Tool (from QSR International) will cover how NVivo can assist with research in the following ways:

  • Literature Review: Efficiently organize and tag literature, easily keep track of critical quotes, and track ideas across many articles
  • Coding: Code literature, interviews, surveys, and any other data you may collect in a single, convenient location and analyze all data for multiple articles in one NVivo project.
  • Analyzing Data: Using queries to uncover potential themes, understand words in context, and explore relationships
  • Findings: Gather together all research findings in a single location, making it easy to link literature and data, and to easily find quotes to illustrate themes
  • Publish: With all data organized and analyzed in an NVivo project, writing happens quickly and easily.

University of Western Ontario
Date: March 26th
Time: 1pm-2pm EST

Please use the link below to register in advance:
https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/7497536093113862657

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Beware Predatory Conferences

Alex Gillis describes the problem of predatory conferences in the April 2018 edition of University Affairs:  “Many publishers of deceptive or poor-quality academic journals have created a big sideline business organizing equally questionable academic conferences” Read more …

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Building and Promoting Your Scholarly Identity: Workshop Series at Western Libraries

Western Libraries presents a series of workshops to help researchers build research skills – offered in Spring 2018:

Getting Noticed: Tips and Tools for Building and Promoting Your Scholarly Identity
March 14, 2018, 1 – 3 pm, Weldon Library Instruction Room 

From Zero to Website: Creating a Scholarly Presence Online 
March 28, 2018, 1 – 3 pm, Weldon Library Instruction Room

Organizing the Research Process: Putting Together your Data Management Plan
April 11, 2018, 1 – 3 pm, Weldon Library Instruction Room

More information on each of the workshops and to register …

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Epidemiology and Biostatistics Summer Workshop Series at Western

All students, clinicians, faculty and staff are welcome to register for the upcoming Epidemiology and Biostatistics Summer Workshop Series, however spaces will be limited.

 The event takes place May 7, 8, 9 and 11, 2018.

Enhance your research methodology skills with faculty and student leaders from the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics as well as representatives of the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES) and SAS Software.

Tentative workshop titles include:

  • Introduction to SAS Certification Program
  • Using health administrative data
  •  Longitudinal data analyses
  • Analyzing and visualizing interactions in SAS
  • Applying propensity scores in SAS
  • Systematic review & meta-analysis

Visit the webpage to sign up to receive workshop details and registration fee information as it becomes available: www.schulich.uwo.ca/epibio/about_us/events/2018/2018_workshop_series.html

EpiBioSummerWorkshopSeries-Poster

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