MDL Tutorials
Comprehensive set of guides that include installing R, learning R fundamentals including graphics and advanced data analysis examples.
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Comprehensive set of guides that include installing SAS, learning SAS fundamentals and advanced data analysis examples.
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This tutorial demonstrates how to scrape tweets for data analysis using Python and the Twitter API.
Link to Scholars Portal guide: http://guides.scholarsportal.info/odesi
Comprehensive set of guides that include obtaining SPSS, learning SPSS fundamentals and advanced data analysis examples.
Introductory guide to the Stat/Transfer utility (version 10).
Comprehensive set of guides that include installing Stata, learning Stata fundamentals including graphics and advanced data analysis examples.
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Summary statistics are a way to explore your dataset, find patterns, and maybe even refine your question of interest. In this workshop, you will learn to use Stata to create basic summary statistics, cross-tabulations, and increasingly rich tables of summary statistics.
UCLA's introductory guide to various statistical analyses in SAS:
This guide shows the user how to use Spyder to load and clean data for further analysis.
This guide is suitable for new R-users or advanced level R-users looking for information on specific topics. The topics covered in this guide are importing, exploring, modifying and managing data.
This exercise will showcase how to use Scholars GeoPortal to extract Census Tract (CT) census geography for the Census Metropolitan Area (CMA) of Montreal using two methods:
1) querying the attribute table of the dataset, or
2) downloading based on a predefined census boundary (ex. CMAs).
FME (File Manipulation Engine) is a powerful software package that allows users to quickly convert spatial and non-spatial datasets into other formats to facilitate sharing and interoperability. One of its components, FME Quick Translator, is an easy-to-use utility that provides a straightforward translation workflow via a simple graphical user interface. This guide demonstrates how to use FME Universal Translator to convert geospatial data from one format to another using an older file format (ArcInfo Coverage, .e00) as an example.
Unsure of which projection to use in your GIS work? This tutorial will help you figure out your options.
Additionally, if using Esri products (e.g. ArcGIS Online) or Esri data, please consult this guide on How to Cite ArcGIS Maps and Data.
If you need to uninstall and reinstall your authorized copy of ArcGIS (for example, if you are reformatting your hard drive or switching to a new computer or you have entered your eva code in once and it did not authorize) please follow these instructions before uninstalling the software.
This tutorial demonstrates how to find paper maps and atlases in the University of Toronto Libraries catalogue, then locate them in Map & Data Library's fifth floor collection.
This tutorial will help users learn how to properly use the Map and Data Library's large format scanner.