Past Events
Data Science Lunch: Vijay Balasubramanian
Understanding the field of data science
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.
Drop-in Digital Scholarship Lab
Don't know how to get started on a digital scholarship project? Having trouble choosing a tool, method, or library for a data visualization or digital exhibition? Just want some people to code or build with? Drop in to our Thursday open lab! Location: Van Pelt-Dietrich Library…
Building Interactive Web Maps
In this workshop, we will explore how to build interactive web maps and applications using various desktop and online software tools. To register, please visit this site.
Finding Places in Text with the World Historical Gazeteer
Researchers often need to be able to search a corpus of texts for a defined list of terms and certain places named in a text or texts. This lesson details how to programmatically search documents for a list of terms, including place names and then how to obtain coordinates and…
Data Ethics and Data Sharing
What are some of the ethical challenges researchers face when choosing to work with data? This session will help you assess the potential benefits and risks of collecting, analyzing, and sharing data and provide you with some practical tools to help you assess data needs and…
NIH Data Management & Sharing Policy
This workshop will provide information and guidance for researchers on the new National Institute of Health (NIH) Data Management & Sharing Policy being implemented on January 25, 2023. Since the University of Pennsylvania is a major recipient of NIH funding, it is vital that…
Data Science Lunch: Dimitrios Tanoglidis
Classifying stars and galaxies
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.
PUG@Penn (Python Users Group)
PUG@Penn (Python Users Group) brings together members of the Penn community interested in or already working with the popular open-source programming language Python. This drop-in, informal, collaboratively-oriented group meets once per month to experiment and explore the many…
NVivo 2: Exploring Data
You've learned the basics of NVivo, but want to do more exploration. Come to this workshop to learn about code management, cases and classifications, and get started with complex queries. We will also touch on teamwork in NVivo. Prerequisites: Participants need to have attended…
Writing a Data Management Plan
This workshop teaches researchers how to approach writing a data management plan (DMP). After this session, learners will understand the basic requirements of a DMP, understand how to utilize DMPTool to streamline their DMP writing, and recognize on campus data management support…