Winter is the season to analyze data! If you'd like to freshen up your data analysis skills, or learn a new skill or tool, check out these upcoming training opportunities from the Informatics and GIS Statewide Program and UC Love Data Week.
IGIS
The Informatics and GIS (IGIS) group is UC ANR's own GIS and data analysis shop. Part of our mission is to share what we learn through our research and service center projects with the rest of the ANR community through workshops.
Below is our spring schedule of trainings. It includes our foundational series of getting started with ArcGIS products, as well as some more specialized topics including Deep Learning for Drone Imagery, Building Decision Support Tools, and Agroclimate Metrics (and don't forget to save the date for DroneCamp!)
- Introduction to ArcGIS Pro | 01.30.26 | 1:00 - 4:00pm PT | online
- Building Place-Based Decision Support Tools with Shiny for R | 02.06.26 | 1:00 - 3:00pm PT | in-person at UC Berkeley
- Building Decision Support Web Apps with R/Shiny | 02.12.26 | 2:00 - 4:00pm PT | online
- Deep Learning with Drone Imagery in ArcGIS Pro | 02.13.26 | 1:00 - 3:00pm PT | online
- Introduction to ArcGIS Online | 02.27.26 | 1:00 - 4:00pm PT | online
- Computing Agroclimate Metrics in R | 04.17.26 | 1:00 - 3:00pm PT | online
- Introduction to ArcGIS Story Maps | 04.24.26 | 1:00 - 4:00pm PT | online
- DroneCamp 2026 | 08.03 - 08.07.26 | Monterey
UC Love Data Week
UC Love Data Week might just be the greatest kept secret in the UC system. Each year during the week of Valentine's Day, data wizards from almost all of the UC campuses (including UC ANR!) come together to run a series of online trainings on a wide range of topics related to data.
This year's lineup of Love Data Week workshops includes:
- Introduction to Public Health Data
- Web Scraping, Data Repository Finders
- Moving Your Data Around with RClone
- Making Research Software Citable and Discoverable
- Creating Publication-Ready Data Tables in R
- Publishing a Quarto website on GitHub
- Introduction to Data Cleaning with Python and Pandas
- and many others!
For the complete line-up and registration links, visit the UC Love Data Week website (and don't be late - popular workshops fill up early!).
