Ever wonder how your professor writes mathematical symbols, equations, and formulas so easily for your assignments? Ever been frustrated with the limitations and clumsiness of Microsoft's Equation Editor when writing your lab assignments? Is the technical and aesthetic formatting of your senior thesis driving you crazy? The solution to all these problems is to learn LaTeX, a document preparation system that makes writing mathematics simple and creates consistent formatting.

In this workshop, we will step through the set-up of getting started with Overleaf to compile your first document. The first half of the workshop will go through the basics of LaTeX and writing math equations so you can start turning in clear solutions to your homework assignments online. The second half delves into formatting and referencing sections, displaying figures, using packages, and citing sources, enough to produce a professional senior thesis or publishable manuscript.

Pre-requisites

There is no prior experience needed to attend this workshop.

Instructor: Dr. Bhaven Mistry

Participants

All CMC Students, Faculty, and Staff, and All Claremont Colleges Students, Faculty, and Staff.

View on site | Email this event

Agenda:

Version Control systemsGit and GitHubCreate an organizationCreate a repositoryCreate issuesForking a repositoryCloning a repositoryBranching a projectContributing to a repositoryCode review and merging

Pre-requisites:

Internet use: Introductory levelGitHub account

Instructor: Daniel Perez

Participants:

All CMC Students, Faculty, and Staff, and All Claremont Colleges Students, Faculty, and Staff.

View on site | Email this event

Agenda:

Version Control systemsGit and GitHubCreate an organizationCreate a repositoryCreate issuesForking a repositoryCloning a repositoryBranching a projectContributing to a repositoryCode review and merging

Pre-requisites:

Internet use: Introductory levelGitHub account

Instructor: Daniel Perez

Participants:

All CMC Students, Faculty, and Staff, and All Claremont Colleges Students, Faculty, and Staff.

View on site | Email this event

Ever wonder how your professor writes mathematical symbols, equations, and formulas so easily for your assignments? Ever been frustrated with the limitations and clumsiness of Microsoft's Equation Editor when writing your lab assignments? Is the technical and aesthetic formatting of your senior thesis driving you crazy? The solution to all these problems is to learn LaTeX, a document preparation system that makes writing mathematics simple and creates consistent formatting.

In this workshop, we will step through the set-up of getting started with Overleaf to compile your first document. The first half of the workshop will go through the basics of LaTeX and writing math equations so you can start turning in clear solutions to your homework assignments online. The second half delves into formatting and referencing sections, displaying figures, using packages, and citing sources, enough to produce a professional senior thesis or publishable manuscript.

Pre-requisites

There is no prior experience needed to attend this workshop.

Instructor: Dr. Bhaven Mistry

Participants

All CMC Students, Faculty, and Staff, and All Claremont Colleges Students, Faculty, and Staff.

View on site | Email this event

This is a workshop designed for beginners, so no prior knowledge of Python or any programming language is needed.

Learning Objectives

Python Programming EnvironmentJupyter NotebookFunctionsVariablesData StructuresListsDictionariesFor LoopsConditional Statements (if… else…)Hands-On Task (if time permits for the second workshop)

Prerequisites

This is a Level 1 Workshop, so no programming knowledge is assumed.

Instructor: Joan Zheng

Participants

All CMC Students, Faculty, and Staff, and All Claremont Colleges Students, Faculty, and Staff.

View on site | Email this event

Participants will explore prompting, iteration, and troubleshooting while creating a "proof-of-concept" live product. Bring your own idea, or use the instructor-led sandbox for inspiration and experimentation. Expect to try things, break things, and learn what works!

Learning Objectives

Introduction to Generative AI and GeminiWriting better promptsCreating bespoke solutions with AIIterating and testing AI-generated resultsBuilding "proof-of-concept" projects with AI

Prerequisites

Having some basic programming knowledge is encouraged, but not required. No prior experience with AI is required. Participants should have access to a Google Gemini account.

Instructor: Joan Zheng

Participants

All CMC Students, Faculty, and Staff, and All Claremont Colleges Students, Faculty, and Staff.

View on site | Email this event

Learning Objectives: (You will learn how to)

Understand the R-Studio environment on the cloudUse the console for basic statistics toolsProduce documents with plots of your data findings

Pre-requisites

Posit Cloud account; if you don't have one yet, please create a new account at https://posit.cloudNo prior experience with R or any programming is needed.

Instructor: Daniel Perez

Participants

All CMC Students, Faculty, and Staff, and All Claremont Colleges Students, Faculty, and Staff.

View on site | Email this event

GIS (or Geographic Information System) is a computer system that creates, analyzes, and displays geographic information and location-based data through maps. Thanks to massive data availability these days, GIS has become one of the most important tools for data-driven decision making. See some examples of how GIS is used: https://www.esri.com/en-us/what-is-gis/overview. Through this workshop (basics and data exploration), you will learn about the basics of ArcGIS and create a special map using its analysis tool.

Target Audience

This workshop is designed for beginners to GIS. No prior knowledge is needed.

Required Software/Account

ArcGIS: To create an ArcGIS online account, please see this instructions page at https://libguides.libraries.claremont.edu/c.php?g=1171259&p=8555912. Students, faculty and staff at CMC have free access to a wide variety of Esri GIS products. To learn more about the other tools, please contact Dr. Jeanine Finn at the Claremont Library.

Agenda

What is GIS?Classic ArcGIS online overviewBase and LayersAnalysisEditsSave and Send to New ArcGIS OnlinePrint and ShareEndnotes

Pre-requisites

This workshop is designed for beginners to GIS. No prior knowledge is needed.

Before you start

Bring Computer with internet connection

Data

Layers from ArcGIS online and Atlas

Instructor: Daniel Perez

Participants

All CMC Students, Faculty, and Staff, and All Claremont Colleges Students, Faculty, and Staff.

View on site | Email this event

GIS (or Geographic Information System) is a computer system that creates, analyzes, and displays geographic information and location-based data through maps. Thanks to massive data availability these days, GIS has become one of the most important tools for data-driven decision making. See some examples of how GIS is used: https://www.esri.com/en-us/what-is-gis/overview. Through this workshop (basics and data exploration), you will learn about the basics of ArcGIS and create a special map using its analysis tool.

Target Audience

This workshop is designed for beginners to GIS. No prior knowledge is needed.

Required Software/Account

ArcGIS: To create an ArcGIS online account, please see this instructions page at https://libguides.libraries.claremont.edu/c.php?g=1171259&p=8555912. Students, faculty and staff at CMC have free access to a wide variety of Esri GIS products. To learn more about the other tools, please contact Dr. Jeanine Finn at the Claremont Library.

Agenda

What is GIS?Classic ArcGIS online overviewBase and LayersAnalysisEditsSave and Send to New ArcGIS OnlinePrint and ShareEndnotes

Pre-requisites

This workshop is designed for beginners to GIS. No prior knowledge is needed.

Before you start

Bring Computer with internet connection

Data

Layers from ArcGIS online and Atlas

Instructor: Daniel Perez

Participants

All CMC Students, Faculty, and Staff, and All Claremont Colleges Students, Faculty, and Staff.

View on site | Email this event

Some topics we’ll cover in this 2-hour lesson include:

Learn how to move around the Excel EnvironmentLearn how to move data around with SortLearn how to highlight and hide data with Filter and Conditional FormattingMake a simple search feature with VLOOKUP (exact match)Make simple Calculations about your dataPut data in bins for visuals with Frequency (note: we will try to get to this)

Pre-requisites

No prior experience with Excel is needed. Attendees are asked to have a local installation of Microsoft Excel or access to Excel Online through Office on their own computers for the workshop.

Instructor: Joan Zheng

Participants:

All CMC Students, Faculty, and Staff, and All Claremont Colleges Students, Faculty, and Staff.

View on site | Email this event