Register for Data Carpentry 🔧
August 17 & August 18
9:00AM-4:30PM
Wexner 434
This workshop is open to all.
Every semester, the HKS Library hosts a two-day, beginner-friendly workshop that will give you the foundational knowledge to pursue data-intensive research with confidence.
In our Fall 2023 Data Carpentry workshop, you'll learn:
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Spreadsheets - how to enter, format, and organize your data
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OpenRefine - how to clean and fix errors in your data
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R - how to analyze your data in a reproducible way
Coffee, light breakfast, and lunch is provided on both days. | | | | |
UPCOMING WORKSHOPS, EVENTS, AND OFFICE HOURS 🗓️ |
HOLLIS: Streamlining Your Research & Finding What You Need
A Harvard ID is required to register for these workshops.
HOLLIS is Harvard's online library catalog. Through it, you can access over 20 million resources from dozens of libraries in almost 500 languages. HOLLIS is an ideal place to start your research, whether you're working on a course assignment, digging into a policy problem, or writing your capstone project. In these workshops, we'll teach you how to get the most out of HOLLIS. | | | | | |
Zotero: Organizing & Citing Your Research
A Harvard ID is required to register for these workshops.
Zotero is a free software tool that automatically formats citations and bibliographies, helps you keep your resources in one place, and allows you to collaborate with others on research projects. It can save you a huge amount of time and effort by ensuring that you can devote most of your energy to researching and writing rather than wrangling citations. In this workshop, we'll teach you how to get the most out of Zotero. | | | | | |
Data + Donuts // Hong Qu on Social Media Misinformation Discourse
Friday, September 8, 2023
10:30AM-11:30AM
Wexner 434 & Zoom
This event is open to all.
Hong Qu is an Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School, teaching courses on data visualization. He also serves as a research fellow at the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy. Hong was one of the first engineers on YouTube’s startup team, building key features like video sharing, channels, and skippable ads. At this session of Data + Donuts, Hong will speak about his research on social media misinformation discourse. | | | | | |
Programming + Pizza
Wednesday, September 27, 2023
5:00PM-7:00PM
Rubenstein 414
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 on writing and debugging your code, cleaning your data, implementing analytical methods, visualizing your data, and conducting spatial analysis in R. | | | | | |
R & Python Office HoursEvery Wednesday starting September 6, 2023
1:30PM-2:30PM
Library Commons
A Harvard ID is required to attend office hours.
Join your Research & Data Librarians every Wednesday for customized, expert support on R, Python, and other programming languages. Whether you're learning programming in a course, using it for an assignment, or wanting to build skills for a competitive job market, our team is here to help.
If you can't make it to office hours or if there are a lot of attendees, you can always make an in-person or virtual appointment for one-on-one support. | | | | | |
GIS Office HoursEvery Tuesday starting September 26, 2023
9:00AM-11:00AM
Littauer G-16 (HKS Library Office)
A Harvard ID is required to attend office hours.
Join Belle Lipton, GIS Outreach Librarian at the Harvard Map Collection, every Tuesday to get personalized support on GIS and mapping projects. You can discuss GIS tools and data, and meet others using GIS in their work. You don't need to have a specific question or project to attend - just an interest in GIS!
Depending on how many people attend, you may still need to book a personal consultation for in-depth advice. | | | | | |
New Book Display: Equality at Every Size 📚
The HKS Library's August book display explores the theme Equality at Every Size. This type of activism seeks to challenge sizeism, the mistreatment of and discrimination against people based on their perceived body size, weight, or shape.
This display features books on the experiences of people who identify as fat, and on the politics, activism, and sociology of weight.
Special thanks to Sarah McClain, Faculty Assistant at HKS, who first envisioned the display, led its curation, and offered key insights at every stage in its creation.
Explore the display online or in person in the HKS Library. | | | |
GIS and Map Survey from Harvard Library 🗺️
Harvard Library is seeking to better understand how members of the Harvard community use geospatial resources. These resources include maps (paper and scanned), GIS tools, and geospatial data. Your feedback will help staff expand and improve services.
This survey should take no longer than 15 minutes to complete. It is completely anonymous, unless you'd like to be entered to win a $25 Amazon gift card.
Take the Harvard Library GIS and Map Survey. | | | |
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