NEXT FRIDAY: DATA + DONUTS 🍩 |
Christina Langer on the Value of Apprenticeship Skills in the Labor Market
Friday, December 8, 2023
10:30AM-11:30AM ET
Rubenstein 414 (HKS Campus) & Zoom
This event is open to all.
Christina Langer is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Stanford Digital Economy Lab which belongs to the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI. She also serves as a Doctoral Researcher at the Project on Workforce at Harvard Kennedy School and is a Guest Researcher at the ifo Institute in Munich. Her research delves into the future of work, focusing on various aspects related to the supply and demand of skills and the evolving hiring practices of firms. She uses big, unstructured data like apprenticeship plan texts and online job postings as well as administrative data to estimate returns to skills and to investigate recent labor market trends like remote work or skills-based hiring. | | | | | |
NEXT WEDNESDAY: LAST PROGRAMMING + PIZZA OF 2023 🍕 |
Programming + Pizza
Wednesday, December 6, 2023
5:00PM-7:00PM ET
Rubenstein 414 (HKS Campus)
This event is open to all.
Programming + Pizza is a collaborative space for building computational research skills. Folks of all experience levels are welcome to bring their questions, insights, and projects. Our goal is to learn together (and also eat pizza). In addition to your peers, your Research & Data Librarians will be
there to provide expert support. Get help writing and debugging your code, cleaning your data, implementing analytical methods, visualizing your data, and creating maps and conducting spatial analysis in R. | | | | | |
ICYMI: Make an Appointment with a Peer Writing Tutor 📝
Peer Writing Tutors are back! Trained by an HKS faculty member, Tutors provide individualized support for HKS students working on writing projects.
Tutors are not copy editors or proofreaders. Instead, they will help you structure an argument to present your ideas effectively, and self-edit for clarify, concision, and style.
Find details and make an appointment with a Peer Writing Tutor. | | | |
EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION: DATA CARPENTRY 📊 |
Data Carpentry - Day 1 - Spreadsheets and R
Friday, January 26, 2024
9:00AM - 4:30PM
Wexner 434 (HKS Campus)
This workshop is open to all.
Every semester, the HKS Library hosts a two-day, beginner-friendly Carpentries workshop that will give you the foundational knowledge to pursue data-intensive research with confidence.
On Day 1 of our Spring 2024 workshops, you'll learn Spreadsheets and R: how to enter, format, and organize your data, plus how to analyze your data in a reproducible way. | | | | | |
Data Carpentry - Day 2 - OpenRefine and R
Friday, February 2, 2024
9:00AM-4:30PM
Wexner 434 (HKS Campus)
This workshop is open to all.
Every semester, the HKS Library hosts a two-day, beginner-friendly Carpentries workshop that will give you the foundational knowledge to pursue data-intensive research with confidence.
On Day 2 of our Spring 2024 workshops, you'll learn OpenRefine and R: how to clean and fix errors in your data, plus more on how to analyze your data in a reproducible way. | | | | | |
New Book Display: AI, Data, and Algorithmic Justice 🤖
Our December book display critically explores the role of artificial intelligence (AI) and the data and algorithms powering it in contemporary society.
The books in the display are divided into four topics:
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Power: How do AI and the people controlling it create or exacerbate systems of power, inequality, and socioeconomic control?
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Identity: Who bears the brunt of AI's consequences? What identity-based frameworks can help shape AI into a more just tool?
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Imperfection: What are the limits to AI's supposedly universal potential? Should quantitative optimization always be our ultimate goal?
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Humanity: What are the inherent ways humans shape AI? What human elements are difficult but necessary to harness in creating just AI?
As our lives become more and more intertwined with AI, automation, and behavioral data in sectors from communication to healthcare to incarceration, grappling with these questions will continue to be critical in shaping public policy. Scholars, policy makers, technologists, activists, and information professionals have been thinking about these questions long before ChatGPT and will continue to think about them long after.
Explore the digital display online, or the in-person display in the HKS Library. | | | | |
REGISTER FOR UNABRIDGED 📖 |
Unabridged: A Library Research Intensive
Thursday, January 8 - Monday, January 12, 2024
2-4 Hours Each Day
Lamont Library (Harvard Yard)
This workshop is open to all HUID holders who are studying or working at the graduate level (students, fellows).
Unabridged is a multi-day library research intensive for graduate students, designed to help you lay the groundwork for a career in academic research. Topics span the entire research process, and an array of expert instructors offer a multi-disciplinary perspective on research practices. The goal is to make visible to you the network of research support staff across campus, and to give you the tools you need to develop an effective, resourceful, and creative research practice. | | | | | |
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