Program

Locations

  • All workshop sessions will be in the International Building, Room 2006.
  • The Opening Reception will be located in the House of Learning Library, 3rd floor, House of Learning Building.
  • The ACCOLEDS AGM and lunch will be in the Main Library, Room L209.
  • The DLI Dinner will be at Terra, located at 326 Victoria Street.

TRU Campus Map (PDF)

TRU Online Map

ACCOLEDS 2017 Program (PDF)

Day 1: Tuesday November 28

8:15-8:45 Registration

8:40-9:00 Housekeeping & Welcome

9:00-10:00 DLI update – Geneviève Jourdain & Chantal Ripp, Statistics Canada

10:00-10:30 Coffee Break

10:30-11:30 Labour Force Survey – Marie-Josée Major, Statistics Canada

11:30-1:00 Lunch on your own

1:00-2:00 Using Excel to create dynamic 3D maps – Tara Stieglitz, MacEwan University

2:00-3:00 Utilising Cygwin, Python & Octave to obtain daily & hourly climate data for multiple months, years, and stations from climate.weather.gc.ca – Daniel Brendle-Moczuk, University of Victoria

3:00-3:30 Coffee Break

3:30-4:30 Mapping the BC Wildfires – Rob Atwood, Hummingbird Drones

5:30- Opening Reception (located in the House of Learning Library, 3rd floor, House of Learning Building)

Day 2: Wednesday November 29

8:45-10:00 Research Data Management in Canada & Portage Network – Jeff Moon, Portage & James Doiron, University of Alberta

10:00-10:30 Coffee Break

10:30-12:30 Research Data Management in Canada & Portage Network – Jeff Moon, Portage & James Doiron, University of Alberta

12:30–2:00 Lunch on your own

2:00–3:00 Aboriginal Statistics – Paula Arriagada Hernandez, Statistics Canada

3:00-3:30 Coffee break

3:30-4:45 Data Blitz Presentations

Digging for (m)ore: Tracing small resource towns sociodemographic statistics over time – Daniel Brendle-Moczuk, University of Victoria

Representing trans people in data – Bahiyyih Egeli, SLIS, University of Alberta

ICPSR in October 2017 – Will Meredith, Royal Roads University

Data literacy: A multi-faceted concept – Wanda Power, SLAIS, University of British Columbia

Getting Started with SketchUp – Rhys Stevens, University of Lethbridge

6:00- DLI Dinner (Terra Restaurant, 326 Victoria St)

Day 3: Wednesday November 30

9:15-10:30 Table Talks

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break

11:00–1:00 ACCOLEDS AGM and Lunch (Room L209, Main Library)

1:00–1:15 Break

1:15–2:15 DLI contacts survey – Marilyn Andrews, University of Regina

2:15-2:30 Wrap up