Tuesday, September 27, 2022

Libraries offering data services workshop series

The data services workshops are designed to provide faculty and students training in data management, software platforms for data visualization and analysis, and finding data resources.

Introduction to Research Data Management
This workshop will show you how to manage research data throughout its life cycle: creation, processing, analysis, preservation and reuse. Topics covered include organizing data, using file naming conventions, writing a data management plan and preparing to share data.

Open Science Licensing Your Data
If I deposit data from my own experiment, can I control how other people use it? Can data be copyrighted? Why should I openly license my data? In this online workshop, we will explore questions such as these, and give suggestions on data sharing and reuse, as well as why openly licensing your data can avoid copyright issues for international collaboration.

Writing about Data: A Scientific Writing Workshop
This workshop will explain the conventions of writing about data, including integrating tables and graphs, using the passive voice and writing successful summaries.

Finding Social Science Datasets
This workshop will introduce two of the leading repositories of social science research data: the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research and the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research.

First Steps with Python for Data Analysis
This workshop will introduce participants to using Python for data analysis. No prior programming knowledge is required, just a basic understanding of computer files and folders.

Special Topic in Python: Exploratory Data Analysis using Pandas
This workshop will introduce participants to Python tasks such as reading data, analyzing data and plotting data. Participants are expected to have attended the First Steps with Python workshop or to have some basic knowledge of using Python.

Special Topic in Python: Scrape Twitter
This workshop will introduce participants to using Python to scrape Twitter. Participants are expected to have attended the First Steps with Python workshop or to have some basic knowledge of using Python.

Special Topic in Python: Using APIs to Scrape Government Information
This workshop will introduce participants to using Python to bulk scrape official publications from all three branches of the federal government from the resource govINFO. Participants are expected to have attended the First Steps with Python workshop or to have some basic knowledge of using Python.

Special Topic in Python: Text Mining with HathiTrust
In this workshop participants will learn how to do moderately advanced text mining analysis approaches using the extracted features datasets generated from the HathiTrust Research Center and apply Python scripts to the data. Participants are expected to have attended the First Steps with Python workshop or to have some basic knowledge of using Python.

The 2023 NIH Data Management and Sharing Policy
The new 2023 NIH Data Management and Sharing Policy will go into effect January 25, 2023. Find out how it will impact applying for and complying with NIH grants, and learn more about important considerations when creating a data management and sharing plan for your grant application.

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