Welcome To The U of T Coders Group!
Let's Work Together
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What We Do

and you can too!

Skill Sharing

Share your favorite coding skills and tools with your friends and colleagues in friendly, no-pressure work-alongs.

Co-Working

Get together to work on your coding projects, help each other out and share your work.

Community Building

Meet new people in your field, organization or community - and find out what we can do when we work together.

Events

Unless otherwise stated, all our events run from 5:30-7 PM, and are open to everyone (i.e. no registration necessary, just show up!) and are held in CDRS (Collaborative Digital Research Space, MN 3230) at the Maanjiwe Nendamowinan building. The CDRS is at the north end of the third level. Once you go through the main entrance of MN, take the elevator to the third floor, turn left, and go all the way down the hall. The door should be open 10-15 minutes before the lesson. A list of all previous events and sessions can be found on the "Past Events" page.

Want to be notified of our upcoming events?

Head over to GitHub and watch our repository, like this:

A screenshot of the Watch settings in the top-right of the GitHub Events repo.
Look in the top right-hand corner of our repo, click 'Watch' and pick 'All Activity'
You can undo this at any time in the same place.

Subscribe to our events calendar!

We also invite you to follow our calendar, where events will be posted.

If you use Google calendar, you can add our calendar by pressing the "Google Calendar" button at the bottom-right of this page.

If you use another calendar app, you can copy and paste this address into any calendar product that supports the iCal format.

Come Say Hi

We use GitHub to get coding help, talk about events and share files. Join us there!

Talk To Us

We also use Google groups to send out emails of our events and weekly sessions.

Subscribe to our email list

We use Discord for chatting between virtual events and for co-working sessions.

Join our Discord

Who We Are

We are a diverse group hailing from multiple departments across the University and beyond.

Executive council

Yeshoda Harry-Paul

President

PhD, Cell and Systems Biology

Interests:
  •  R
  •  Python
  •  Bash

Margot Lautens

Co-working Coordinator

PhD, Molecular Genetics

Interests:
  •  R
  •  Python

Sophie Breitbart

RGASC Liaison

PhD, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Interests:
  •  R
  •  Git
  •  Markdown
  •  Visualization

Elliott Sales de Andrade

Technical Admin

PhD, Physics

Interests:
  •  Fortran
  •  Python
  •  Visualization

Vicki Zhang

Admin

PhD, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Interests:
  •  R
  •  Python

Madeleine Oman

Treasurer

PhD, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Interests:
  •  Python
  •  R
  •  Git
  •  Bash
  •  Bioinformatic workflows
  •  Machine learning

Denise (Denny) Maranga

Marketing Coordinator

PhD, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Interests:
  •  R
  •  Python
  •  Git

Contributors

Madeleine Bonsma

Physics

Lina Tran

PhD, Physiology

Interests:
  •  Python
  •  R

Ahmed Hasan

PhD, Biology

Interests:
  •  R
  •  Python
  •  LaTeX

Sara Mahallati

PhD, Biomedical Engineering

Interests:
  •  MATLAB
  •  LaTeX
  •  Python

James Santangelo

PhD, Biology

Interests:
  •  R

Lindsay Coome

Psychology

Nil Sahin

Molecular Genetics

Frances Wong

Faculty, Biology

Interests:
  •  R
  •  Git
  •  Markdown

Haidy Giratallah

PhD, Pharmacology

Interests:
  •  Python

Amin Banihashemi

PhD, IMS

Interests:
  •  Python
  •  R

Tara Henechowicz

PhD, Neuroscience

Interests:
  •  R
  •  Python

Kathy Chung

Digital Humanities

Zoe Francis

Derek Howard

Interests:
  •  Python

Serena Jeblee

Computer Science

Luke W Johnston

PhD, Nutritional Sciences

Interests:
  •  R

John Ladan

MMath, PhD Physics

Interests:
  •  Python
  •  Julia
  •  Javascript

Abigail Cabunoc Mayes

Mozilla Science Lab

Sarah Meister

Ian Dennis Miller

PhD, Psychology

Interests:
  •  Python
  •  R
  •  Social Network Analysis
  •  LaTeX
  •  Flask

Dano Morrison

Joel Östblom

PhD, Biomedical Engineering

Interests:
  •  Python
  •  Linux

Raul Samayoa

Brian Sutherland

Dawn Walker

MI, iSchool

Friends and Resources

Groups and resources for coding and research

  • Software Carpentry
    Introductory lessons on various topics in computing for research.
  • Internet Research Network
    An interdisciplinary network of researchers at UofT studying how the rise of the Internet is changing society, politics and the economy — and vice versa.
  • The University of Toronto Association for Computer Machinery
    The University of Toronto Association for Computer Machinery Student Chapter, affiliated with the Faculty of Information iSchool. They also host professional and research skills workshops open to people from outside iSchool.
  • Scientific Computing Fundamentals at CAMH
    This group occasionally has an intensive several days of training in computing skills, for the most part open to UofT graduate students.
  • Map and Data Library Workshops
    The Map & Data Library hosts workshops during the academic year, providing introductions to mapmaking in ArcGIS and QGIS, cartography, use of statistical software packages, data visualization, and creating and finding data.
  • St. George Library Workshops
    This site (LibCal) often has workshops that teach computing and coding skills. Check often!
  • Graduate Professional Skills program
    Like the LibCal workshops, this program often has workshops that teach computing and coding skills.
  • University of Toronto Machine Learning Club
    Join the Machine Learning Club to work through machine learning tutorials. No pre-requisite knowledge of machine learning is required. The club will aim to encourage students to pursue and also share their interests in the field of data science and machine learning.
  • freeCodeCamp Toronto
    Weekly meetups for community members to work on coding projects together plus technical workshops and guest speakers.