UBC Okanagan Library invites students to join us for a workshop on how to start your own mini-garden and learn about the new seed library!
Tired of solo writing sessions? Craving a supportive environment to fuel your creativity? Look no further than our weekly Writing Community, tailored for the UBCO community.
This workshop will show how to interpret GAMs and how to use GAMs to make publication-level figures.
By the end of this session, participants should be able to interpret GAMs and the output of the summary() function, predict from GAMs, and make figures using GAMs.
Researchers, meet your Okanagan research support team! Come join us to connect with friendly faces who are always there to support solutions for your scholarly communication and digital or data-intensive research needs.
Are you in the process of applying for ethics approval for your research? This online workshop will discuss how to write an informed consent form for your ethics application with a focus on writing for a non-specialist member of the public to read and understand.
Unlock the secrets of crafting impactful literature reviews in this interactive online workshop for graduate students. Discover how to synthesize existing research succinctly while maintaining your own critical perspective and voice.
Using accessible platforms like Google Colab, participants will learn to apply AI tools that enhance diagnostic accuracy, personalize treatments, and ultimately improve patient outcomes. This is a must-attend session for healthcare professionals and data scientists eager to address the growing demand for innovative healthcare solutions through AI.
This session will introduce participants to the Analysis of Variance (ANOVA), a statistical method used for comparing the means of three or more groups. The concept of blocking will also be introduced to reduce noise and isolate sources of variation.
By the end of the session, participants should be able to use ANOVA for multi-treatment analysis, implement blocking in experimental design, calculate the F statistic for assessing significance, and appreciate how blocking can improve the efficiency of a study.
This workshop will introduce key ideas using discipline-agnostic examples and common language while illustrating how to view the world from a Bayesian perspective.
UBC Okanagan Library invites students to join us for a workshop on how to start your own mini-garden and learn about the new seed library!
Join us in reading and reflecting on the seminal work of Parker Palmer, “The Courage to Teach: Guide for Reflection and Renewal” (20th Anniversary Edition), that still resonate decades after its publication. This is an opportunity to pair our exploration of teaching practices and tools with reflections on our teaching identity. “This book builds on the […]
Tired of solo writing sessions? Craving a supportive environment to fuel your creativity? Look no further than our weekly Writing Community, tailored for the UBCO community.
This webinar delves into the open education strategies, challenges, and achievements of provinces across the nation.
This workshop will re-visit random and fixed effects with Hierachical GAMs (HGAMs) and expand the concepts of random slopes by introducing random smooths. The workshop will also cover smooth, nonlinear interaction terms via the ti() and te() functions.
By the end of this session, participants should be able to fit HGAMs with smooth interaction terms, plot and interpret the models.
Researchers, meet your Okanagan research support team! Come join us to connect with friendly faces who are always there to support solutions for your scholarly communication and digital or data-intensive research needs.
Join our online workshop, where we'll unveil strategies for crafting the methods and results sections of your thesis.
An opportunity to connect with fellow members of the UBC Black community, participate in engaging discussions, and enjoy a meal.
This Community of Practice brings together contract faculty to examine topics, concerns, and questions identified by our community members. This month our conversation will take a light approach to professional development. Bring your wish list for what you would like to learn in support of your teaching practice. We will collectively generate ideas and identify resources that you […]
Write, stamp and send postcards both domestically and internationally to your family and friends for free. FREE snacks will be provided!
This session will address the concepts of correlation, causation, and association in data. Participants will learn to differentiate between these concepts and to recognize and interpret various types of correlations.
By the end of the session, participants should be able to distinguish between correlation and causation, recognize the impact of confounding variables on associations, evaluate correlation reliability, and understand the significance of correlation results.
Join Naim Cardinal, Educational Facilitator with Indigenous Programs and Services, and Jessica Bayer, Educational Consultant for Indigenous Initiatives, for bi-weekly coffee gatherings. These sessions provide a space to ask questions and engage in conversations about truth and reconciliation, decolonization, Indigenization, Indigenous history, culture, worldviews, and more. All are welcome! REGISTER NOW
This workshop will introduce key ideas using clear mathematical notation while relating the concepts to the larger picture of Bayesian statistical inference and the Bayesian perspective of randomness, states of knowledge, and epistemology.
Ever found it challenging to answer the critical “So what” question in your research? Struggle no more!
Tired of solo writing sessions? Craving a supportive environment to fuel your creativity? Look no further than our weekly Writing Community, tailored for the UBCO community.
Researchers, meet your Okanagan research support team! Come join us to connect with friendly faces who are always there to support solutions for your scholarly communication and digital or data-intensive research needs.
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Kelowna, BC Canada V1V 1V7
Tel 250 807 8000
We respectfully acknowledge the Syilx Okanagan Nation and their peoples, in whose traditional, ancestral, unceded territory UBC Okanagan is situated.
