Education

Ready to learn some new data skills for 2026! Now's the time to sign up for a Map & Data Library Workshop!
We are offering a variety of online and in-person workshops (in Robarts Library 4th floor computer lab).
Topics include:

Geographic… Read more.

Who owns your data? What does it tell them about you? How do you identify online disinformation? Most importantly, how do you take back control?
In celebration of Data Privacy Week (January 26-30), librarians and staff from the Gerstein Science… Read more.

Looking for a one-stop guide for getting started with particular data-related tools that includes tutorials, workshop recordings, article and book recommendations, and more? Check out our Getting Started Guides.
For qualitative data analysis (QDA)… Read more.

Did you know that in addition to the Map & Data Library's live workshops and past workshop recordings, we also offer a number of self-paced online courses, that you can self-enroll and take at any time using your UTORID? They are built in… Read more.

Did you really want to attend a Map & Data Library workshop, but it conflicted with your schedule? 
Did you attend a workshop, but wish you could go back and review one section? 
Are you someone who prefers to work through workshop… Read more.

On Halloween, it’s easy to think of haunted houses and ghost stories, but what’s truly chilling for researchers is the sudden vanishing of data, the silence of a backup that never ran, the crash you didn’t anticipate, the repository that disappears… Read more.

In Canada, data is often framed as a neutral resource—a tool governments use to guide policy and measure progress. Yet, when it comes to Indigenous communities, the ways in which information has historically been gathered, stored, and interpreted… Read more.

November is going to be a busy month for data visualization! I'm offering a number of introductory workshops on Gephi, Tableau, Infographics, and new for this term, Power BI.
First up we have Gephi. Gephi is a free, open-source, point-and-click tool… Read more.

The Map & Data Library is running a series of GIS workshops throughout the semester. Learn the basics, get into spatial analysis, or explore how to create beatiful online stories with maps!
MDL workshop offerings
Our longstanding series of… Read more.

Did you know that the Map & Data Library provides extensive support for a qualitative data analysis tool called NVivo? 
NVivo is an well-known qualitative data analysis tool that's been around since 1997! It supports all the stages of a… Read more.