Events that may be of interest to our research community that are sponsored by organizations outside of NC TraCS.

SHIRE 101: Introducing UNC’s New Platform for Data-Driven Clinical Research

Thursday, December 11, 2025 10:00 am - 11:00 am

Join the UNC School of Medicine Office of Research for the fourth session in the AI in Research series as Emily Pfaff, Paul Kovach, and JP Powers, present an in-depth look at SHIRE.

As of November 3, the Secure Health Informatics Research Environment (SHIRE) is the default environment for data-driven research using UNC Health’s electronic health record data.

In this webinar, presenters will demonstrate everything you need t...

Odum Institute: Analyzing Large Datasets with the Julia Language

Monday, January 26, 2026 12:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Every 2 Days until January 28, 2026

This course will teach participants how to use the programming language Julia to load, clean, plot, and analyze social-science data. Julia is a newer programming language with a focus on high-performance scientific computing, and allows efficient manipulation of large datasets. The course will cover the basics of loading tabular data; cleaning, filtering, and joining that data; calculating descriptive statistics; and estimating statistica...

Odum Institute: Analyzing Large Datasets with the Julia Language

Wednesday, January 28, 2026 12:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Every 2 Days until January 28, 2026

This course will teach participants how to use the programming language Julia to load, clean, plot, and analyze social-science data. Julia is a newer programming language with a focus on high-performance scientific computing, and allows efficient manipulation of large datasets. The course will cover the basics of loading tabular data; cleaning, filtering, and joining that data; calculating descriptive statistics; and estimating statistica...

Odum Institute: Analyzing Qualitative Data for Applied Contexts

Friday, January 30, 2026 10:00 am - 4:00 pm

It’s Monday morning and you open your qualitative research project folder. Thousands of pages of text, distributed across 90 in-depth interviews, await. What’s next? This workshop provides a roadmap for conducting an applied thematic analysis, through all major steps in the analytic process. Participants will learn the benefits of writing a qualitative data analysis plan, to ensure that the data collected are analyzed in a way that ...

Odum Institute: Multi-Item Scale Development - Part 1

Wednesday, February 04, 2026 9:00 am - 3:00 pm

This course is the first is a two-part scale development course series that introduces students to the systematic process of developing multi-item scale measures and survey instruments. Examples include measures of various social and psychological variables that might be assessed in health, medicine, journalism, or other related research areas. After a brief theoretical introduction to topics such as defining a construct and types of va...