MDL Tutorials
NVivo is a program used for qualitative data analysis. It supports researchers in managing, organizing, and analyzing qualitative data to produce new insight, infer relationships, and identify themes.
R is a programming language and a free software environment to write and execute the R language. RStudio is an Integrated Development Environment that provides free and open-source tools for R. While you can run your data analysis in the basic R environment, RStudio has a more intuitive interface and more tools to help you write your R code.
Stata is a statistical software for data manipulation, data visualization and data analysis.
Data Visualization is a broad term that basically involves anything that uses graphical or pictorial representations of data for exploration, sense-making, and communication. Data visualization allows you and your audience to identify patterns, trends, exceptions, and relationships. It has broad applicability from conveying abstract concepts or ideas to highly complex scientific data.
This page will highlight the resources we offer on data visualization and using Tableau Desktop. Tableau Desktop is a commercial program used to create data visualizations and interactive dashboards.
OpenRefine is a free, open-source program used for working with messy data. It allows you to clean, transform, and augment data in preparation for analysis and visualization.
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Here are some ways to dig deeper into the archival and instructional materials in the Digital Scholar Lab.
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This tutorial demonstrates how to use the Digital Scholar Lab's six analysis tools.
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This tutorial demonstrates how to use and customize the Digital Scholar Lab's cleaning configurations.
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This tutorial shows you how to create a collection in the Digital Scholar Lab, both by searching Gale Primary Sources and by uploading your own texts.
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This tutorial demonstrates how to export documents and metadata from the Digital Scholar Lab.
These instructions will help you create SSH key pairs on a Mac computer, for access to the Web of Science PostgreSQL Database.
This tutorial will help you get up and running querying the Web of Science PostgreSQL database on a Mac computer. It will cover accessing the high performance computing environment, querying the database via SQL statements and from within a python script, and downloading the results of the query.
You will need a Compute Canada account with the proper credentials to access this database. If you haven’t done so already, you should first follow the instructions to get your account set up.
Note: This tutorial is intended for Mac users. If you are using Windows, check out this tutorial instead.
This tutorial will help you get up and running querying the Web of Science PostgreSQL database. It will cover accessing the high performance computing environment, querying the database via SQL statements and from within a python script, and downloading the results of the query.
You will need a Compute Canada account with the proper credentials to access this database. If you haven’t done so already, you should first follow the instructions to get your account set up.
Note: This tutorial is intended for Windows users. If you are using a Mac, check out this tutorial instead.
Since access to both the Web of Science PostgreSQL database and the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) Patent PostgreSQL database is tied to access to supercomputers, it can only be granted after a multi-step process that ensures security and access rights:
The following slide deck is Part 1 of an introduction to ArcGIS Online.
The following slide deck will guide you through Part 2 of the ArcGIS Online workshop. Part 2 covers topics such as choropleth mapping, spatial analytic tools, and linking ArcGIS Pro to ArcGIS Online.
The following slide deck walks you through the basics of learning about ArcGIS Pro's main tools, viewing and manipulating datasets and basemaps, and exporting a basic map view.
Learn to create a map project which will include a legend, scale bar, an inset map, a title and a north arrow.
The following slide deck will walk you through Module 3 of the ArcGIS Pro tutorial. This module will teach you how to add and format vector and raster data layers to your project, as well as how to geocode data.
The following slide deck is for Module 4 of the ArcGIS Pro tutorial. This module helps the user apply knowledge and skills learned in previous 3 modules in solving a real life spatial problem.
The following slide deck is for Module 5 of the ArcGIS Pro workshop. This module will teach you how to manipulate and analyze raster data in ArcGIS Pro.
The following slide deck is for Module 6 of the ArcGIS Pro tutorial. This module will teach you how to do basic data cleaning and converting to prepare data to be used in ArcGIS Pro. This module will also present a real life problem of doing spatial analysis using public health data.
The following slide deck is a tutorial on ArcGIS StoryMaps. This tutorial will teach you the basics of ArcGIS StoryMaps, how they can be used, and how you can make your own StoryMap.
University of Toronto community members can access online GIS courses through ESRI Academy. Content is designed for beginners and experienced users.
This tutorial walks you through accessing Constellate using the University of Toronto's institutional privileges. Please see our general Constellate page for more information and see our tutorial on creating a dataset once you have logged in.