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Behavioral Science of LLMs with Antonios Stamatogiannakis, IE Business School, IE University

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Led by Antonios Stamatogiannakis (IE Business School, IE University), this intensive workshop examines whether and how contemporary Large Language Models emulate well‑documented human biases and heuristics, situating the inquiry within decision theory, behavioral science, and applied AI. Ten...

Generative AI for Data Analysis with Kimberly Fessel, Dr Kim Data | Data Science Consultancy

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This workshop teaches practical, research-focused applications of generative AI—integrating ChatGPT with Jupyter/Python—to accelerate exploratory data analysis, data cleaning, visualization, and synthetic data generation for teaching purposes. Participants will produce reusable, well-documented...

WEBINAR: Getting started with spatial omics

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This record includes training materials associated with the Australian BioCommons webinar ‘Getting started with spatial omics’. This webinar took place on 10 September 2025.
Event description
Spatial omics provides unprecedented opportunities for the understanding of cells, tissues and systems by...

Learn to Program: Python at UOA Online

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Python has deservedly become a popular language for scientific computing. It has all the friendly features and conveniences you’d expect of a modern programming language, and also a rich set of libraries for working with data.

We teach using Jupyter notebooks, which allow program code,...

Surveying with Qualtrics at WSU Online

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Needing to collect data from people in a structured and intuitive way? Have you thought about using Qualtrics?

Qualtrics in a powerful cloud-based survey tool, ideal for social scientists from all disciplines. This course will introduce the technical components of the whole research...

Introduction to Machine Learning using R: Introduction & Linear Regression at WSU Online

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Machine Learning (ML) is a new way to program computers to solve real world problems. It has gained popularity over the last few years by achieving tremendous success in tasks that we believed only humans could solve, from recognising images to self-driving cars. In this course, we will explore...

WEBINAR: AIcrs: AI-Designed Anti-CRISPRs as Programmable CRISPR Inhibitors

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This record includes training materials associated with the Australian BioCommons webinar ‘AIcrs: AI-Designed Anti-CRISPRs as Programmable CRISPR Inhibitors’. This webinar took place on 12 August 2025 and is part of the series “Leveraging deep learning to design custom protein-binding...

TERN Educational Resources

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TERN education aims to advance understanding and contribute to managing Australia’s environment and unique ecosystems through awareness raising of our long-term environmental monitoring programs, protocols and data products.

We will do this by providing learners, educators, and, end-users,...

ARDC Digital Research Skills Strategy Tool

Material

This is a decision tool to help you determine components of a digital research skills strategy.
When you create a skills strategy, you need to work out:

Which people
Need which skills
At what level
Delivered how

This tool helps you:

Create typical user roles that outline groups who need...

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R for reproducible science

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A collection of training events and materials that relate to using R to provide training and background on helping me make my research reproducible.