This event is part of Love Data Week 2025, co-sponsored by SFU, UBC, UNBC, and UVic. Registration is open to everyone.

Using Abacus, UBC's data repository, explore basic concepts of using R to search for and download data via an API. Using an API to access data provides a unique way to explore the repository and to script repetitive tasks. Topics covered will be applicable to other APIs. This workshop assumes some level of comfort with R for the purposes of data wrangling; code will be described in plain language to guide participants through the process, but this will not be a 'how to' wrangle data.

Mathew Vis-Dunbar is the Data and Digital Scholarship Librarian at UBC Okanagan Library.

Nick Rochlin is the Data Science Librarian at the University of Victoria Libraries, and supports the departments of Chemistry, Math, Physics & Astronomy, and Statistics.