Edinburgh Centre for Data, Culture & Society
@edcdcs.bsky.social
We are creating an environment where data-driven research can grow and thrive. Join us! #EdCDCS #DataLedResearch
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Save the date for our Silent Disco on building a digital gazetteer! This lesson will teach you how to create a digital gazetteer from a historical text using the Linked Places Delimited (LP-TSV) format.
Beginner-friendly.
📆 Fri 12 Dec
🔗https://edin.ac/473krni
Beginner-friendly.
📆 Fri 12 Dec
🔗https://edin.ac/473krni
November 21, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Save the date for our Silent Disco on building a digital gazetteer! This lesson will teach you how to create a digital gazetteer from a historical text using the Linked Places Delimited (LP-TSV) format.
Beginner-friendly.
📆 Fri 12 Dec
🔗https://edin.ac/473krni
Beginner-friendly.
📆 Fri 12 Dec
🔗https://edin.ac/473krni
We are excited to welcome Dorothy Berry as the speaker for our 2025 annual lecture, "How Users Imagine Archival Research", on December 10th. Register now: https://edin.ac/4pfKrDp #EdCDCS Charing: Melissa Terras
November 21, 2025 at 1:01 PM
We are excited to welcome Dorothy Berry as the speaker for our 2025 annual lecture, "How Users Imagine Archival Research", on December 10th. Register now: https://edin.ac/4pfKrDp #EdCDCS Charing: Melissa Terras
Join us next week for an Introduction to Geographical Data with QGIS! This interactive course will focus on developing a fundamental understanding of geospatial data and the basic functionalities of QGIS.
Beginner friendly.
📆 Fri 28 Nov
🔗https://edin.ac/3LbgYeV
Beginner friendly.
📆 Fri 28 Nov
🔗https://edin.ac/3LbgYeV
November 21, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Join us next week for an Introduction to Geographical Data with QGIS! This interactive course will focus on developing a fundamental understanding of geospatial data and the basic functionalities of QGIS.
Beginner friendly.
📆 Fri 28 Nov
🔗https://edin.ac/3LbgYeV
Beginner friendly.
📆 Fri 28 Nov
🔗https://edin.ac/3LbgYeV
Save the date for Getting Started with Inferential Statistics! We'll cover null hypothesis testing, t-tests and p-values with hands-on examples in R.
Previous knowledge required.
📆 Wed 10 Dec
🔗https://edin.ac/3ILF6nX
Previous knowledge required.
📆 Wed 10 Dec
🔗https://edin.ac/3ILF6nX
November 20, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Save the date for Getting Started with Inferential Statistics! We'll cover null hypothesis testing, t-tests and p-values with hands-on examples in R.
Previous knowledge required.
📆 Wed 10 Dec
🔗https://edin.ac/3ILF6nX
Previous knowledge required.
📆 Wed 10 Dec
🔗https://edin.ac/3ILF6nX
Coming up next week! Join us for our course on using API for Research. where we’ll cover what APIs are, how to read documentation, make requests and work with JSON.
Beginner friendly.
📆 Wed 26 Nov
🔗https://edin.ac/49ayRo6
Beginner friendly.
📆 Wed 26 Nov
🔗https://edin.ac/49ayRo6
November 19, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Coming up next week! Join us for our course on using API for Research. where we’ll cover what APIs are, how to read documentation, make requests and work with JSON.
Beginner friendly.
📆 Wed 26 Nov
🔗https://edin.ac/49ayRo6
Beginner friendly.
📆 Wed 26 Nov
🔗https://edin.ac/49ayRo6
Join us this Friday to learn more about geospatial data and GIS! We'll cover core concepts, common pitfalls and useful tools.
📆 Fri 21 Nov
🔗https://edin.ac/494J4T7
📆 Fri 21 Nov
🔗https://edin.ac/494J4T7
November 19, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Join us this Friday to learn more about geospatial data and GIS! We'll cover core concepts, common pitfalls and useful tools.
📆 Fri 21 Nov
🔗https://edin.ac/494J4T7
📆 Fri 21 Nov
🔗https://edin.ac/494J4T7
Save the date for this year's CDCS Annual Lecture! Dorothy Berry will discuss the development of JPCA Explore and how it reflects wider issues around creating human-scale digital projects.
Refreshments will be provided.
📆 Wed 10 Dec
🔗https://edin.ac/48Ss1DS
Refreshments will be provided.
📆 Wed 10 Dec
🔗https://edin.ac/48Ss1DS
November 18, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Save the date for this year's CDCS Annual Lecture! Dorothy Berry will discuss the development of JPCA Explore and how it reflects wider issues around creating human-scale digital projects.
Refreshments will be provided.
📆 Wed 10 Dec
🔗https://edin.ac/48Ss1DS
Refreshments will be provided.
📆 Wed 10 Dec
🔗https://edin.ac/48Ss1DS
This Thursday! Join us for Text Classification in Practice: From Topic Models to Transformers, a hands-on course focusing on building and evaluating pipelines in Python with Google Colab.
Previous knowledge required.
📆 Thu 20 Nov
🔗https://edin.ac/4h9RURL
Previous knowledge required.
📆 Thu 20 Nov
🔗https://edin.ac/4h9RURL
November 18, 2025 at 9:00 AM
This Thursday! Join us for Text Classification in Practice: From Topic Models to Transformers, a hands-on course focusing on building and evaluating pipelines in Python with Google Colab.
Previous knowledge required.
📆 Thu 20 Nov
🔗https://edin.ac/4h9RURL
Previous knowledge required.
📆 Thu 20 Nov
🔗https://edin.ac/4h9RURL
Join us for our December Fika!
No agenda, no action items: just a group of people gathering to discuss their projects, ideas and research approaches over refreshments.
📆 2nd December
🔗Booking link in bio
No agenda, no action items: just a group of people gathering to discuss their projects, ideas and research approaches over refreshments.
📆 2nd December
🔗Booking link in bio
November 17, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Join us for our December Fika!
No agenda, no action items: just a group of people gathering to discuss their projects, ideas and research approaches over refreshments.
📆 2nd December
🔗Booking link in bio
No agenda, no action items: just a group of people gathering to discuss their projects, ideas and research approaches over refreshments.
📆 2nd December
🔗Booking link in bio
Save the date! Our workshop on Getting Started with Descriptive Statistics will focus on helping you develop practical skills for summarising and exploring data using R.
Previous knowledge required.
📆 Mon 8 Dec
🔗https://edin.ac/3W6pTRf
Previous knowledge required.
📆 Mon 8 Dec
🔗https://edin.ac/3W6pTRf
November 17, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Save the date! Our workshop on Getting Started with Descriptive Statistics will focus on helping you develop practical skills for summarising and exploring data using R.
Previous knowledge required.
📆 Mon 8 Dec
🔗https://edin.ac/3W6pTRf
Previous knowledge required.
📆 Mon 8 Dec
🔗https://edin.ac/3W6pTRf
Coming up next week! Join us for a practical conversation on geospatial data and GIS, from where to start to what to watch out for and which tools to use.
Beginner friendly.
📆 Fri 21 Nov
🔗https://edin.ac/494J4T7
Beginner friendly.
📆 Fri 21 Nov
🔗https://edin.ac/494J4T7
November 14, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Coming up next week! Join us for a practical conversation on geospatial data and GIS, from where to start to what to watch out for and which tools to use.
Beginner friendly.
📆 Fri 21 Nov
🔗https://edin.ac/494J4T7
Beginner friendly.
📆 Fri 21 Nov
🔗https://edin.ac/494J4T7
Join us on Monday for our online session on building interactive choropleth maps in Python and Folium.
Previous knowledge of Python required.
📆 Mon 17 Nov
🔗https://edin.ac/47772L3
Previous knowledge of Python required.
📆 Mon 17 Nov
🔗https://edin.ac/47772L3
November 14, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Join us on Monday for our online session on building interactive choropleth maps in Python and Folium.
Previous knowledge of Python required.
📆 Mon 17 Nov
🔗https://edin.ac/47772L3
Previous knowledge of Python required.
📆 Mon 17 Nov
🔗https://edin.ac/47772L3
Join us next week for Text Classification in Practice: From Topic Models to Transformers! You'll build and evaluate classification pipelines in Python with Google Colab, from feature-based models to transformers.
Previous knowledge required.
📆 Thu 20 Nov
🔗 https://edin.ac/4h9RURL
Previous knowledge required.
📆 Thu 20 Nov
🔗 https://edin.ac/4h9RURL
November 13, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Join us next week for Text Classification in Practice: From Topic Models to Transformers! You'll build and evaluate classification pipelines in Python with Google Colab, from feature-based models to transformers.
Previous knowledge required.
📆 Thu 20 Nov
🔗 https://edin.ac/4h9RURL
Previous knowledge required.
📆 Thu 20 Nov
🔗 https://edin.ac/4h9RURL
This week we're looking at Epistemic Network Analysis in practice! You'll learn how to map co‑occurring concepts and visualise connections with the ENA Web Tool.
📆 Fri 14 Nov
🔗https://edin.ac/4nRkF8g
📆 Fri 14 Nov
🔗https://edin.ac/4nRkF8g
November 12, 2025 at 4:20 PM
This week we're looking at Epistemic Network Analysis in practice! You'll learn how to map co‑occurring concepts and visualise connections with the ENA Web Tool.
📆 Fri 14 Nov
🔗https://edin.ac/4nRkF8g
📆 Fri 14 Nov
🔗https://edin.ac/4nRkF8g
Save the date for our December Fika!
No agenda, no action items: just a group of people gathering to discuss their projects, ideas and research approaches over refreshments.
📆 Tue 02 Dec
🔗https://edin.ac/3J8EcC9
No agenda, no action items: just a group of people gathering to discuss their projects, ideas and research approaches over refreshments.
📆 Tue 02 Dec
🔗https://edin.ac/3J8EcC9
November 11, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Save the date for our December Fika!
No agenda, no action items: just a group of people gathering to discuss their projects, ideas and research approaches over refreshments.
📆 Tue 02 Dec
🔗https://edin.ac/3J8EcC9
No agenda, no action items: just a group of people gathering to discuss their projects, ideas and research approaches over refreshments.
📆 Tue 02 Dec
🔗https://edin.ac/3J8EcC9
Save the date for Using Prompting Efficiently for Research! You'll learn practical prompting strategies for tools like ChatGPT, their strengths and limits, and how to use them responsibly.
Beginner friendly.
📆 Thu 4 Dec
🔗https://edin.ac/4hc8r7r
Beginner friendly.
📆 Thu 4 Dec
🔗https://edin.ac/4hc8r7r
November 11, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Save the date for Using Prompting Efficiently for Research! You'll learn practical prompting strategies for tools like ChatGPT, their strengths and limits, and how to use them responsibly.
Beginner friendly.
📆 Thu 4 Dec
🔗https://edin.ac/4hc8r7r
Beginner friendly.
📆 Thu 4 Dec
🔗https://edin.ac/4hc8r7r
Coming up next week! Join us for this online session where you'll learn how to build an interactive map in Python and Folium.
Previous knowledge of Python required.
📆 Mon 17 Nov
🔗https://edin.ac/47772L3
Previous knowledge of Python required.
📆 Mon 17 Nov
🔗https://edin.ac/47772L3
November 10, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Coming up next week! Join us for this online session where you'll learn how to build an interactive map in Python and Folium.
Previous knowledge of Python required.
📆 Mon 17 Nov
🔗https://edin.ac/47772L3
Previous knowledge of Python required.
📆 Mon 17 Nov
🔗https://edin.ac/47772L3
Join us this Monday for our Digital Method of the Month on data visualisation!
Beginner-friendly.
📆 Mon 10 Nov
🔗https://edin.ac/43agFr0
Beginner-friendly.
📆 Mon 10 Nov
🔗https://edin.ac/43agFr0
November 7, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Join us this Monday for our Digital Method of the Month on data visualisation!
Beginner-friendly.
📆 Mon 10 Nov
🔗https://edin.ac/43agFr0
Beginner-friendly.
📆 Mon 10 Nov
🔗https://edin.ac/43agFr0
Join us next week for an Introduction to Epistemic Analysis! We'll cover the workflow from segmenting and coding to building and interpreting networks.
Beginner friendly.
📆 Fri 14 Nov
🔗https://edin.ac/4nRkF8g
Beginner friendly.
📆 Fri 14 Nov
🔗https://edin.ac/4nRkF8g
November 7, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Join us next week for an Introduction to Epistemic Analysis! We'll cover the workflow from segmenting and coding to building and interpreting networks.
Beginner friendly.
📆 Fri 14 Nov
🔗https://edin.ac/4nRkF8g
Beginner friendly.
📆 Fri 14 Nov
🔗https://edin.ac/4nRkF8g
Save the date for our Introduction to Geographical Data with QGIS course! You'll start with the fundamentals then practise working with layers, imports and basic visualisation.
Beginner friendly.
📆 Fri 28 Nov
🔗https://edin.ac/3LbgYeV
Beginner friendly.
📆 Fri 28 Nov
🔗https://edin.ac/3LbgYeV
November 6, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Save the date for our Introduction to Geographical Data with QGIS course! You'll start with the fundamentals then practise working with layers, imports and basic visualisation.
Beginner friendly.
📆 Fri 28 Nov
🔗https://edin.ac/3LbgYeV
Beginner friendly.
📆 Fri 28 Nov
🔗https://edin.ac/3LbgYeV
Save the date for our course on using API for Research! We'll cover what APIs are, what they do, and how to use them to access and connect data sources
📆 Wed 26 Nov
🔗https://edin.ac/49ayRo6
📆 Wed 26 Nov
🔗https://edin.ac/49ayRo6
November 5, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Save the date for our course on using API for Research! We'll cover what APIs are, what they do, and how to use them to access and connect data sources
📆 Wed 26 Nov
🔗https://edin.ac/49ayRo6
📆 Wed 26 Nov
🔗https://edin.ac/49ayRo6
Our BYOD Festival is tomorrow! Bring a messy dataset (or work on our sample) and get hands-on support to clean and prepare it for analysis in R or Python.
📆 Wed 5 Nov
🔗https://edin.ac/3VTOhFK
Beginner-friendly.
📆 Wed 5 Nov
🔗https://edin.ac/3VTOhFK
Beginner-friendly.
November 4, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Our BYOD Festival is tomorrow! Bring a messy dataset (or work on our sample) and get hands-on support to clean and prepare it for analysis in R or Python.
📆 Wed 5 Nov
🔗https://edin.ac/3VTOhFK
Beginner-friendly.
📆 Wed 5 Nov
🔗https://edin.ac/3VTOhFK
Beginner-friendly.
Join us next week for Digital Method of the Month: Data Visualisation! Explore core principles, common pitfalls and which tools to try, with time for questions.
Beginner friendly.
📆 Mon 10 Nov
🔗https://edin.ac/43agFr0
Beginner friendly.
📆 Mon 10 Nov
🔗https://edin.ac/43agFr0
November 3, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Join us next week for Digital Method of the Month: Data Visualisation! Explore core principles, common pitfalls and which tools to try, with time for questions.
Beginner friendly.
📆 Mon 10 Nov
🔗https://edin.ac/43agFr0
Beginner friendly.
📆 Mon 10 Nov
🔗https://edin.ac/43agFr0
Our next Silent Disco is tomorrow! Using the fastai Python library and historical newspaper imagery, you'll build, train, and evaluate image classification models.
This workshop requires some prior knowledge.
📆 Tue 4 Nov
🔗https://edin.ac/479AEbL
This workshop requires some prior knowledge.
📆 Tue 4 Nov
🔗https://edin.ac/479AEbL
November 3, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Our next Silent Disco is tomorrow! Using the fastai Python library and historical newspaper imagery, you'll build, train, and evaluate image classification models.
This workshop requires some prior knowledge.
📆 Tue 4 Nov
🔗https://edin.ac/479AEbL
This workshop requires some prior knowledge.
📆 Tue 4 Nov
🔗https://edin.ac/479AEbL
Save the date for our Digital Method of the Month! We'll look at what GIS can do for your research, how to get started, common pitfalls and tools to try.
Beginner friendly.
📆 Fri 21 Nov
🔗 https://edin.ac/494J4T7
Beginner friendly.
📆 Fri 21 Nov
🔗 https://edin.ac/494J4T7
October 31, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Save the date for our Digital Method of the Month! We'll look at what GIS can do for your research, how to get started, common pitfalls and tools to try.
Beginner friendly.
📆 Fri 21 Nov
🔗 https://edin.ac/494J4T7
Beginner friendly.
📆 Fri 21 Nov
🔗 https://edin.ac/494J4T7