Past Events
Data Driven Careers
Penn Career Services will be partnering up with the College Alumni Mentoring Series (CAMS) for a discussion on data driven careers. See this for more info and to register for the event. Time: 6-7:30pm Location: Hall of Flags
Penn Mapping and GIS Club
The Penn Libraries Mapping & GIS club (PennMGIS) presented by Research Data & Digital Scholarship team at the Penn Libraries is a group that meets to discuss, learn, and collaborate on topics and projects related to mapping, geospatial data processing, visualization, and analysis…
Intro to ArcGIS Pro
In this workshop, we will explore GIS data models and formats, various components of ArcGIS Pro interface and tools, creating a new map, adding data layers, changing layer symbol and display properties; creating map layouts with legends, titles, north arrows, and other map…
R Advanced: Write and Publish in Markdown
Tired of jumping between R and a text editor? This workshop will get you started using R Markdown to write and export a formatted paper. In this workshop you will: Structure text, including sections and citations Format code, visualizations, and tables Export a publication…
R Basics: Prepare Data for Modeling and Analysis
Eager to analyze data? This hands-on introduction will help you organize and format data, supporting your modeling or machine learning workflow. In this workshop, you will: Import and wrangle real-world data Explore data properties Format data for statistical tests and…
User Experience Design for Scholarly Storytelling
What is user experience design, and why should scholars working in digital scholarship care about it? This introduction-level workshop will introduce participants to key concepts in UX design, including wireframing, prototyping, iteration, and user testing. Participants are…
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…
R Basics: Get Started in RStudio
Never worked in R? Get a jump on your business or academic career by exploring this powerful statistical programming language and its popular environment, RStudio. in this workshop, you will: Navigate RStudio Work with objects Use functions and libraries Note: Install R and…
Intro to Text Analysis
Computational text analysis (or text mining) is finding, extracting, and analyzing patterns while processing large amounts of text. Attendees will learn an array of computational text analysis concepts, tools, platforms, and resources for getting started with your research. We…
Intro to QGIS
In this workshop, we will explore GIS data models and formats, various components of the free and open source QGIS interface and tools, creating a new map, adding data layers, changing layer symbol and display properties, creating map layouts with legends, titles, north arrows…