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.
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