Past Events
GIS Day presentations and keynote speaker
GIS presentations and a keynote address from National Audubon Society's Bird Migration Explorer Program Director, Melanie A. Smith focusing on the issue of mapping bird migration! For more information, go to https://guides.library.upenn.edu/c.php?g=553812&p=7060250 To register…
Creative Coding in p5.js
Come learn how to make cool, weird, creative things using code! p5.js is a JavaScript library for creative coding, with a focus on making coding accessible and inclusive for artists, designers, educators, beginners, and anyone else. In this workshop, we'll introduce the basics of…
GIS Day: Introduction to QGIS
Explores GIS data models and formats, and the various components of the free and open source QGIS software interface and tools. Location: Goldstein Electronic Classroom (Room 114), Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center For more information, go to https://guides.library.upenn.edu/c.php…
GIS Day: Building Interactive Webmaps
A hands-on tutorial on how to build interactive web maps in QGIS, and ArcGIS Web AppBuilder. Location: Goldstein Electronic Classroom (Room 114), Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center For more information, go to https://guides.library.upenn.edu/c.php?g=553812&p=7060250 To register, go…
GIS Day: Building 3D video game style fieldtrip with Unity and the Structural Geology Query Toolkit
Demonstrates steps in building a 3D video game from aerial images and elevation object files. Topics include installing Unity and the Structural Geology Query Toolkit, importing aerial images and digital data elevation, and publishing a final product. Location: Goldstein…
GIS Day: Finding Places in Text
GIS Day workshop: Demonstrates locating place names in a corpus, then geocoding for particular region and time period. Location: Goldestein Electronic Classroom (Room 114), Van Pelt Library Center. For more information, go to https://guides.library.upenn.edu/c.php?g=553812&p…
Data Science Lunch: Greg Ridgeway; Sam Dillavou
Model for predicting police officer features and rounds discharged in gun shootings; Friction: a short history and discussion about sparse, messy data
Amy Gutmann Hall, Room 615
3333 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104
During the academic year, our postdoctoral fellows meet most Tuesdays from 12pm – 1:30pm for an informal lunch with a Penn faculty guest speaker.
R Penn Group
You know what’s better than learning how to use R? Learning how to use R with other people! Bring your research, dream up a mini project, or learn how to think critically about relevant data with your peers. The R Penn Group (RPG) presented by the Research Data & Digital…
Python for Humanists
This short workshop will introduce humanists to the programming language Python and the numerous possibilities for its use for research in the humanities. No prior programming experience required! Having attended this workshop, participants can expect to be able to: set up a…
Data Science Lunch: David Brainard; Kieran Murphy
Computational modeling of visual processing; How to locate data and applications of machine learning to do so
Amy Gutmann Hall, Room 615
3333 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104
During the academic year, our postdoctoral fellows meet most Tuesdays from 12pm – 1:30pm for an informal lunch with a Penn faculty guest speaker.