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| 7 Jun 9:00 am 12:00 pmThis course will provide hands-on experience on fundamental concepts of programming using C. This will include Conditional statement, Loops(while and for), Arrays, Pointers, Functions and Dynamic memory allocation. An introduction will be provided regarding fundamental data structures such as linked list, stacks, queues and binary trees. Level: Introductory Length: Two 3-Hour Sessions Format: Lecture + Hands-on Prerequisites: None (part of the 2024 Compute Ontario Summer School) Virtual | COSS2024 |
| 7 Jun 9:00 am 10:20 amThe application of machine learning (ML) to academic libraries promises to be transformational. A Task Force of the Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL) has been exploring this technology and identifying specific ML use cases. OCUL is an association of the 21 university libraries in Ontario who collaborate on many shared services and resources. This session will review the work of the Task Force with a focus on use cases, and the requirements and processes to implement pilot programs and production services. Particular attention will be placed on the technology infrastructure (compute, software) and the expertise requirements (technology, domain). Use cases to be discussed include audio to text transcription, metadata creation, virtual reference (chat), and discovery using natural language processing (NLP), semantic search, and summarization. The discovery use case will be applied to some of the extensive data collections maintained by Scholar Portal, the shared resource managed by OCUL, including over 65 million articles from over 27,000 full text scholarly journals and a collection of over 800K digital books and government documents. Participants will be encouraged to engage with key questions about the adoption and use of machine learning in libraries and to provide feedback on the ongoing evolution of this technology as it benefits library applications. Level: Introductory Length: 1.5 Hours Format: Lecture Prerequisites: None (part of the 2024 Compute Ontario Summer School) Virtual | COSS2024 |
| 7 Jun 1:30 pm 4:30 pmThis course will provide hands-on experience on fundamental concepts of programming using C. This will include Conditional statement, Loops(while and for), Arrays, Pointers, Functions and Dynamic memory allocation. An introduction will be provided regarding fundamental data structures such as linked list, stacks, queues and binary trees. Level: Introductory Length: Two 3-Hour Sessions Format: Lecture + Hands-on Prerequisites: None (part of the 2024 Compute Ontario Summer School) Virtual | COSS2024 |
| 7 Jun 1:30 pm 2:50 pmJupyter Notebook is commonly used for interactive computing in Python. This session provides the options and features for working with Jupyter on the Digital Research Alliance of Canada's remote computing clusters and demonstrates several use case examples on the clusters. Level: Introductory Length: 1.5 Hours Format: Lecture + Demonstration Prerequisites: Basic Python and Linux command line experience. (part of the 2024 Compute Ontario Summer School) Virtual | COSS2024 |
| 7 Jun 3:00 pm 4:20 pmOdesi (odesi.ca) is a Canadian social science data repository and online data exploration and analysis tool. Odesi’s collections include over 5,700 historical and contemporary surveys and public opinion polls from a variety of data providers such as Statistics Canada and the Canadian Opinion Research Archive (CORA). This workshop will demonstrate how to effectively search for and access data within Odesi on a variety of social, economic, and political topics. Attendees will learn how to navigate the interface, using search features and available collections, explore survey questions (variables), perform basic tabulations and analysis using connected tools, and download datasets into statistical software (e.g. R, SPSS) for further analysis. Level: Introductory Length: 1.5 Hours Format: Lecture Prerequisites: None (part of the 2024 Compute Ontario Summer School) Virtual | COSS2024 |
