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Programming + Pizza next Tuesday 🍕
Individual accounts with Bloomberg.com 📰
Prison Book Program donations at HLS 📚
Political Buttons collection featured in BuzzFeed 🗳️

Programming + Pizza next Tuesday 🍕

Maximizing imperfect data for decision-making

Programming + Pizza is an open, free-form space for those interested in programming tools and computational research to build skills and community. Folks of all experience levels are welcome to bring their data-centric questions, insights, and projects to these semi-monthly events, to learn from and collaborate with one another (and eat free pizza, of course).

Each session of Programming + Pizza also features a presentation from a person or team working on an interesting data project. This session will feature Courtney Hall, the Director for Impact Assessment and Evaluation at the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative at the Bloomberg Center for Cities. Courtney will address the common issue that in practice, the data we have to work with is rarely perfect – yet we still need to use them to make actionable recommendations to decision makers. Courtney will discuss ways to maximize the quality of survey and interview data, maintain rigor in analysis, and develop insights that are understandable and actionable for decision makers.

Tuesday, November 15, 2022
5:00-7:00PM
Library Commons

Details & Registration

Individual accounts with Bloomberg.com 📰

All Harvard affiliates can now create individual accounts for Bloomberg.com. This is an exciting new form of access to Bloomberg's online news and media. With an individual account, you have unlimited access to the Bloomberg app, audio versions of all Bloomberg.com articles, unlimited streaming of live Bloomberg TV, and subscriber-only newsletters.

To create your account:

Visit www.bloomberg.com/account/create-account
Create an account using your Harvard email address
Verify your email

Prison Book Program donations at HLS 📚

The Harvard Law School (HLS) Library has partnered with the HLS Prison Legal Assistance Project on a book drive for the Prison Book Program in Quincy, MA. The Prison Book Program supports people in prison across the country by sending them free, high-quality books and resources that meet their needs and interests. Only paper books are accepted, and used books are welcome. Visit the Prison Brook Program website for more information on donation guidelines, and for a wish list of specific books.

Drop off new and gently used paperback books in the HLS Library lobby through Wednesday, November 30.

Banner of buttons from the Political Buttons at HKS collection, used as a header in the BuzzFeed article.

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Political Buttons collection featured in BuzzFeed 🗳️

Just in time for the 2022 midterm elections, our Political Buttons at HKS collection was featured extensively in a BuzzFeed News story on the history of campaign pins. Our thousands of campaign pins from throughout the 20th century show both how much and how little has changed in politics. Check out the story for buttons from the 1960s through today, on issues from abortion to the Vietnam War to nuclear power.