getting-started

Notes to work with after week one

About meet-n-greet

Your name matters!

Here's a tool to use when introducing your name

Important checks after week 2

• Pay Stubs
• More info on Pay and benefits
• WFM

Internet connection

• Public Wi-Fi is not recommended
• Password for healthguest changes each month.
  • Consider checking the password before heading to office

Lunch rooms

• DAS kitchen on 2nd floor
• Basement's Lane Lecture Hall (end of hallway on the left side)
• Student lounge on 1st floor

Favourite places

• Starbucks
• Shoppers
• Bubble tea
• Banana Leaf
• Cactus Club Cafe

Room-booking

• Consider booking enclosed rooms for meeting via Outlook or ARCHIBUS

  • "Hotelling desks are becoming noisier", per discussions at DAS monthly meeting 2024-09-23
  • Link is accessible once you've signed in through VPN Remote Access

• Room by floor:

  • Basement floor (Environmental Health) has following rooms:
    • Room Earth
    • Room Fire
    • Room Water
  • First floor
    • Room TB (room with window)
    • Room IMMS (room without window), closest to foyer
    • Room Moose usually for big meetings
  • Second floor
    • Tom Cox - usually for big meetings but feel free to book for short meetings when you see it idle
    • UBC/CDC board room (close to DAS kitchen)

• Room Hamlet: info pending

Book rooms through ARCHIBUS

1. login to ARCHIBUS
2. Search for BCCDC building this way:

Book through Outlook

1. Send a meeting invite to a meeting room
2. Optionally, add CDC rooms' availablity onto your calendar. To do so:
   1. On Outlook, click on the calendar tab
   2. Right-click on "Add Calendar" on the sidebar
   3. Choose "From Room List"
   4. Enter "CDC use only"
   5. Double-click those marked with "CDC use only - Room..." (n=9)

Phone

• Form to request phone be attached to your Teams account
  • Check with DAS admin for more info

Computing

Network drives

• U: drive is private to you
• O: drive is shared and accessible to other members

VPN Remote Access

• https://vpn.healthbc.org/logon/LogonPoint/tmindex.html

Cloud computing (external resources)

• Digital Research Alliance / Compute Canada: Registration webform
• UBC Sockeye: info pending

Requesting accesses

One would need to ask for permission to gain access to...

• O: drive - To get access to this drive, please email the person who provided your orientation

• Git

  • GitHub notes
  • GitLab quick notes
    • See guide to get access

• Posit Cloud

  • For R and Python users

Note also that SharePoint materials are ready-only by PHSA-member.

Policies on Leaves

Non-contract: https://pod.phsa.ca/workplace-resources/policies-procedures/acrossPhsa/C-99-11-20216.pdf

Working with Python

• Installing Python + creating virtual env without Anaconda, last tested on 2024-10-02
• Posit Workbench, last tested on 2024-10-04

Meetup's / Resources

• Data Science Rounds (bi-weekly)
• Papers reviewed at the Biostatistician affogato [in-person journal club](\phsabc\root\BCCDC\Groups\Analytics_Resources)
• Grand rounds
• Monday virtual book club
• R working group (last Thursday of each month)
• Internal:
  • PANDAS monthly meeting
  • PAWS weekly meetings

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