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Fall 2025

Getting Started: Concepts, Tools, & Resources
Instructor: Wei Yin

Join us to experiment, break things, and imagine new possibilities. Data Club meetings are meetings, not workshops. An introduction to a bit of software is followed by opportunities to try the software in your own environment and on your own terms.

We are starting the semester with a general introduction to working with research data. We'll learn about different data types and get a preview of the upcoming Data Club meetings.

Topics covered: data types, data resource

Date: Sep 18, 2025
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Introduction to Open Source GIS
Instructor: Eric Glass

Join us to experiment, break things, and imagine new possibilities. Data Club meetings are meetings, not workshops. An introduction to a bit of software is followed by opportunities to try the software in your own environment and on your own terms.

In this Data Club meeting, we'll be learning about using spatial data in a GIS environment. We'll be focusing on QGIS, which is freely available

Topics covered: GIS, QGIS

Date: Sep 25, 2025
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Intro Python Text Mining with TDM Studio & ChatGPT
Instructor: Eric Glass

Join us to experiment, break things, and imagine new possibilities. Data Club meetings are meetings, not workshops. An introduction to a bit of software is followed by opportunities to try the software in your own environment and on your own terms.

Aimed at people with no programming experience, in this Data Club meeting, we'll learn the basics of Python in the context of a text mining project using ChatGPT.

Topics covered: text mining, ChatGPT, Python, TDM Studio

Date: Oct 2, 2025
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