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2023 Winter School: Introduction to Plotting Social Networks with R
10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
his workshop will introduce using R and the package iGraph to make social network visualizations. Participants with little to no R experience should be able to keep up. Beyond the visualization construction, we will explain some of the uses and concepts of
Meet the Authors: Text Mining for Information Professionals: An Uncharted Territory
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
As technology continues to advance, the importance of machine learning and artificial intelligence is becoming increasingly apparent across all disciplines. In the realm of data analytics, mining, and science, there is a strong market for research and ...
2023 Winter School: Word Vectors & Embeddings
8:00 AM - 11:00 AM
This workshop will cover the use of word vectors and embeddings for social science and digital humanities applications. It will be taught in R and Python. The first part of the workshop will review the history of word vectors and embeddings in the ...
Understanding Metadata Collection, Management, and Standardization within Scholarly Research (DCMI)
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
As science and society become increasingly data-centric, they also become increasingly metadata-centric. In many contexts, however, metadata is a prototypical infrastructural phenomena: essential yet mundane, and ubiquitous yet often invisible. Within ...
Asia Pacific Chapter Annual Regional Meeting
12:00 AM
The Asia Pacific Chapter holds its virtual Annual Meeting with the theme is “The Inheritance, Integration, and Innovation of Information Science in the Context of Artificial Intelligence Development”, which means that under the Context of Artificial ...
Meet the Authors: Quantum Steampunk: The Physics of Yesterday's Tomorrow
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Quantum information science is the study of how we can use quantum physics to process information in ways impossible with everyday hardware. This field has been burgeoning throughout industry, geopolitics, academia, and even Hollywood. Despite its ...
Enhancing Metacognitive Awareness & Metaliteracy Skills Towards Becoming a Self-Determined Researcher
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Metacognition is essentially the critical self-reflection or thinking about one’s own thinking. Metacognition is one of the domains of metaliteracy. Metaliteracy is a requirement for successful research. It promotes critical thinking and collaboration ...
Information Ethics & Digital Wellness Toolkit
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Digital wellness refers to the notion of “being well in a digital society”. This is a very important consideration especially nowadays due to the prevalence of ICTs. Since ICTs permeate all sectors of society, a more user-friendly term was developed – Digi
Information Ethical Considerations of Generative AI: Research, Teaching & Learning
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
After completion of this webinar the participants will: have a better understanding of what generative AI is have a better understanding of what Information Ethics is be aware of the IE implications of Generative AI be able to use some generative AI platf