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GIS Drop-In Hours

04/16/2020 - 1:00pm
https://www.library.northwestern.edu/libraries-collections/government-collection ... virtual drop-in in Zoom: https://northwestern.zoom.us/j/2459006499 GIS staff from Geospatial and Data ... Services at the Northwestern Libraries will be on hand to assist you with your research or homework ...
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Researcher's Toolkit: Resources for Text Mining and Analysis

01/24/2018 - 3:00pm
Business Librarian, Northwestern University Libraries Christina Maimone, Senior Computational Social ... Sciences Specialist, Research Computing Services Are you interested in creating a novel data set for your ... developing new research topics or supplementing your existing research with new types of data. Library and ...
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Social Science Data for Research

05/11/2020 - 2:30pm
Social Science Data for Research Northwestern University Libraries provides access to a variety of ... secondary research data resources in the social sciences, e.g. datasets created by researchers, government ... Social Explorer, data.census.gov, FRED/ALFRED, IndiaStat, China Data Online, etc. While quantitative data ...
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Social Science Data for Research

05/15/2020 - 1:30pm
Social Science Data for Research Northwestern University Libraries provides access to a variety of ... secondary research data resources in the social sciences, e.g. datasets created by researchers, government ... Social Explorer, data.census.gov, FRED/ALFRED, IndiaStat, China Data Online, etc. While quantitative data ...
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Introduction to Text Analysis with the HathiTrust Research Center

Introduction to Text Analysis with the HathiTrust Research Center (Online)

01/20/2023 - 11:00am
use of computational algorithms on unstructured text. It is used in the humanities and social sciences ... Digital Library collection, an online library of over 17 million digitized items. This workshop will focus ... to extract interesting data from historical resources, such as books, newspapers, plays, or poetry. ...
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Researcher's Toolkit: ICPSR: Resources and Services

02/21/2018 - 3:00pm
Government, Business & Geospatial Services, Northwestern University Libraries ICPSR, a data archive for ... the social and behavioral sciences, is a core resource for quantitative (and increasingly for ... Northwestern's ICPSR membership (maintained by the University Libraries). NU students, faculty, and staff have ...
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or libraries:  Art Library Galter Library (Health Sciences) Government and Geographic Information ... Herskovits Library (African Studies) Math Library McCormick Library of Special Collections and University ... library@northwestern.edu; questions are usually answered by the next business day. Live chat with a librarian Monday- Thursday: 8am- ...
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Researcher's Toolkit - Data Organization in Spreadsheets: Best Practices

05/02/2018 - 3:00pm
Maimone, Senior Computational Social Sciences Specialist, Research Computing Services Do you collect or ... Researcher's Toolkit- Data Organization in Spreadsheets: Best Practices Instructor: Christina ... store data in spreadsheets? Do you work with others who do? Then this workshop is for you. We'll ...
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Digital Collection

New digital collection interface makes browsing archives easy

efficient tools to view the voluminous digital collections held at the Libraries. The new Digital ... DigiCollectionSampler.jpg Posters from the Hamid Naficy collection, the Herskovits Library of African Studies, and the ... digitized by the Libraries. One digital collection has already been put to use in the classroom. Associate ...
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Visiting artist Jen Bervin weaves interdisciplinary stories across Northwestern

future art projects in the diverse collections of Northwestern University Libraries – from its John Cage ... Northwestern Libraries Collections,” an interdisciplinary writing workshop for faculty and students using the ... Library’s collections. This workshop will use the site of the library to explore fundamental questions about ...
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April forum: Data Governance

04/01/2019 - 12:00am
April forum: Data Governance Per the old adage, knowledge is power – and today’s knowledge is ... data. Subsequently,  this forum focuses on the field of data governance, a space that asks us to ... have discussed the commercial significance of data governance, largely focusing on its technological ...
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Tech Available for Checkout from University Library

To obtain the equipment necessary to conduct a research study requiring both robust data collection ... Tech Available for Checkout from University Library Student Conducts Research with Library iPads ... and easily accessible technology, School of Education and Social Policy senior Jamila Silver turned to ...
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Exploring the Readex Universe

06/04/2020 - 1:00pm
government publications. These collections cover over 350 years of content from the Americas. Northwestern ... current content, and exploring other collections such as Early American Imprints and the American ...
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TEACHxperts: Citizen Science: Engaging your Students and the Public in your Research

TEACHxperts: Citizen Science: Engaging your Students and the Public in your Research

04/25/2018 - 12:00pm
exploring data collection, manipulation, analysis, and interpretation. In this interactive session, we will ... real research and data collection Get Started Learning Communities Across Campus Speaker Series 2233 ... TEACHxperts: Citizen Science: Engaging your Students and the Public in your Research Citizen ...
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TEACHxperts: Citizen Science: Engaging your Students and the Public in your Research

04/25/2018 - 3:00pm
exploring data collection, manipulation, analysis, and interpretation. In this interactive session, we will ... real research and data collection Get Started Learning Communities Across Campus Speaker Series 2233 ... TEACHxperts: Citizen Science: Engaging your Students and the Public in your Research Citizen ...
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Chicago: City of Big Data

11/03/2016 - 5:00pm
Chicago: City of Big Data Cities have been collected data to manage day-to-day activities, such as ... data that extends beyond day-to-day management. The City of Chicago is using data science to drive ... events like food inspection issues, lead inspections and rodent outbreaks. Data science projects across ...
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Dr. Ruha Benjamin

TEACHx Keynote Speaker

About the Keynote Speaker Ruha Benjamin has studied the social dimensions of science, technology, and ... University and the author of  People’s Science: Bodies and Rights on the Stem Cell Frontier  and the ... "Classrooms as Labs for Social Change: Reimagining the Default Settings of Education," will aim to expand ...
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"How The Word is Passed:" Online Collection Talk

01/26/2023 - 12:30pm
collection that reckon with the history of slavery, white supremacy, symbols of nationhood, and social ... "How The Word is Passed:" Online Collection Talk Collection talk led by Corinne Granof, ...
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CSI Series: Sharing and Reusing Research Data

10/19/2016 - 11:30am
beneficial for other researchers. As a result, collecting, organizing and accessing research data are very ... CSI Series: Sharing and Reusing Research Data Scholars across different disciplines produce high ... volumes of data sets. These data sets are valuable not only for their own team research but also can be ...
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Salaam Cinema! 50 Years of Iranian Movie Posters

generously donate the entire collection to University Libraries, he also wanted to experiment with a new ... posters in the collection. The students used the Libraries’ Images Repository to do their research. They ... in collaboration with Northwestern University Libraries to create a draft of an exhibit of Iranian ...
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GIS for the Social Sciences

11/18/2020 - 12:00pm
GIS for the Social Sciences In celebration of GIS Day, we will be discussing the use of GIS as an ... analytical tool for the social sciences.  As access to geospatial technologies continues to increase, new ... Data Services Librarian at Northwestern University Libraries. He is also a Ph.D. candidate in the ...
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Segal Seminar Series: Professor Scott Klemmer, UC San Diego

10/23/2018 - 4:00pm
Segal Seminar Series: Professor Scott Klemmer, UC San Diego "Learning through Collective ... Intelligence" The ‘collective’ part of collective intelligence can feel simultaneously uplifting (“we all ... both fields is that we’re not restricted to choosing between expert innovation and collective ...
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Computational Skills for Researchers: Data Visualization with Python

11/15/2017 - 3:00pm
Maimone, Senior Computational Social Sciences Specialist, Northwestern IT Research Computing Services Are ... you using Python to analyze data? Then learn how to visualize it with the matplotlib plotting library ... . The pandas data analysis library has built-in support for matplotlib, but matplotlib works with other ...
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Hidden in plain sight: HathiTrust Digital Library and Emergency Access

02/01/2021 - 1:00pm
a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world. In addition to the access Hathi ... Hidden in plain sight: HathiTrust Digital Library and Emergency Access This session will introduce ... the HathiTrust Digital Library and the special provisions Hathi has put in place to help researchers ...
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Researcher's Toolkit - Visualization with Python: matplotlib and pandas

05/25/2017 - 12:00pm
Maimone, Senior Computational Social Sciences Specialist, Northwestern IT Research Computing Services Are ... you using Python to analyze data? Then learn how to visualize it with the matplotlib plotting library ... . The pandas data analysis library has built-in support for matplotlib, but matplotlib works with other ...
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An Introduction to Privacy Considerations in Research and Teaching

11/06/2018 - 12:00pm
privacy policies? With the survey software you are using, are you collecting more respondent data than you ... Public Policy Librarian, Northwestern University Libraries If you are teaching or conducting research, ... are intending? Do you use social media platforms for providing content to your students and to ...
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Researcher's Toolkit - An Introduction to Privacy Considerations in Research and Teaching

11/06/2018 - 12:00pm
privacy policies? With the survey software you are using, are you collecting more respondent data than you ... Instructor: Qiana Johnson, Librarian, Northwestern Libraries If you are teaching or conducting research, there ... are intending? Do you use social media platforms for providing content to your students and to ...
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The Researcher's Toolkit - Data Manipulation with Excel

04/18/2018 - 3:30pm
Assistant, Social Science Data Services, Northwestern University Libraries Have you ever wondered how you can ... The Researcher's Toolkit- Data Manipulation with Excel Instructor: Trang Nguyen, Graduate ... clean, manipulate data, and make them look as neat as possible in order to run the analyses you wanted? ...
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Researcher's Toolkit Series 2017: Sharing Your Research and Data with Arch

10/25/2017 - 3:00pm
problems with reproducibility in the social and life sciences. Conference presentations, lectures, ... Researcher's Toolkit Series 2017: Sharing Your Research and Data with Arch Grant funding ... agencies and journal publishers increasingly require data sets to be archived and publicly available ...
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Digital Humanities Fellows at Summer Workshop

Digital Humanities Fellows Report & Reflect on Summer Workshop

understandings of social science data in conversation with the humanities to consider the many non-measurable, ... construction of data.  By collecting and connecting archives and resources, adding metadata to each resource ... Galya Ben-Arieh Senior Lecturer of Political Science, and Director of the Center for Forced Migration ...
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