Prof. Miguel Hernan, Director of CAUSALab, and Professor from the Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan, joins the Data Sciences Speaker Series (DSSS). The DSSS is intended as a collaborative marquee series, whose focus is data science and its intersection with other fields. Together, we seek to advance knowledge in the field of […]

In 2019, the Saskatchewan Cancer Agency was approached to expand CanPath into the province of Saskatchewan. After four years of planning, testing, an internal pilot, and guidance from established cohorts, Healthy Future Sask officially launched on February 1, 2023. This webinar will tell the story and present the challenges and opportunities of launching a provincial […]

Insights Into the Diversity Of 'Distance' Doctoral Cohorts With Dr. Katrina McChesney, Emma Jones, Dr. James Burford, & Professor Liezel Frick The experiences of doctoral researchers studying by distance have received comparatively limited research or institutional attention. Distance doctoral researchers are at risk of having reduced access to supervisory input, support services, training and development, […]

The Black Research Network’s Communications in Research Workshop Series brings some of the University of Toronto’s most savvy communications experts together to help researchers gain basic knowledge of communications practices. Researchers are vital to shaping the story behind an institution. In the series’ first workshop, Ainka Jess, strategic communications advisor for U of T’s Institutional […]

Do you want to develop your R skills to advance your data science skills? R is a popular open-source statistical programming language that is popular in academia and industry. This workshop gently introduces users to intermediate level tools in R including the dplyr package for data manipulation, if statements, for loops, functions and the ggplot2 […]

Historical maps contain rich information about buildings, land use, and transportation networks, and provide novel insights into urban and spatial economics. However, this information is encoded into pixel values, and cannot be readily used for analysis. This paper investigates the evolution of French urban areas from a historical perspective. We implement a fully-convolutional neural network […]

We are delighted to welcome Edmonton’s current Poet Laureate, Titilope Sonuga, Ontario’s first Poet Laureate, Randell Adjei and former Halifax Poet Laureate, Rebecca Thomas to the table and we invite you to join us! Our speakers will engage in cross-national conversations that will touch on their identities and the stories that uniquely capture both their […]

With the rise of large language models such as ChatGPT, there is growing concern that students may use AI to partly or entirely write their assignments. Join us for an informative talk on how these models work, the potential cheating implications, and strategies to discourage their use. We will discuss methods to try to detect […]

“Crafting Legacy: Arts, Wellness, andIntergenerational Storytelling” with Professor Andrea Charise In this talk, I offer acritically-informed exploration of the emergence of health-related digitalstorytelling practices, with a particular focus on their applications to agingand the intergenerational context. Starting with a historically-attuned summaryof current scholarship in intergenerational storytelling, I turn to a recentexemplar: the Toronto-based, community-engaged digital […]

Part 3: Going Grey and Supplementary Search Techniques Audience: University of Toronto graduate students and faculty engaged in health science research. Date: Wednesday, March 1st, 2023 Time: 1:00pm - 4:00pm (+ mandatory pre-work module, approximately 60 minutes) Location: Robarts 4th floor e-Classroom   By the end of this 3-part workshop series, participants will: Understand the […]