Worth a look if you are on the market for free access to training resources : https://education.github.com/pack?sort=popularity&tag=Learn. You can find the filtered list of educational offers halfway down the page.
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This inventory of digital humanities workshops prepared by H-France may be of interest to those looking for learning content to replace the soon-to-be discontinued series at Constellate: https://h-france.net/h-france-dh-workshops/
I just ran across this user group that might be of interest to those of you who are dealing with the technical challenges of using open-source/freeware research tools: Ottawa PC Users’ Group. As per the group’s History page, this group was founded in the pre-World Wide Web era of restricted Internet access were peer-support was an important factor in gaining access to software, training, and connectivity. I would encourage researchers to think about user groups that might be pertinent to their work; downloading software is easy today but training is extremely expensive and operating systems often introduce glitches that are not present in controlled lab environments.
There are a lot of data literacy and data science courses available online. I am sure you have your own favourites! I was impressed today to learn that the courses on CoginitiveClass.ai are both free and grant users Credly badges on completion. Academic students of data science typically don’t worry about certifying their programming skills. However, hiring managers don’t have the time to read through a paper to find out if the author used sophisticated quantitative skills or not. So get certified! And ask probing questions about applicants’ skills profile (if you are hiring)! It takes a lot of work just to find the appropriate online learning resource. Just because applicants don’t have a sticker on their CV doesn’t mean they haven’t taken training in using a program.
Lucas Jerusalimiec 