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If you would prefer to reach out to a particular DSG member, please see below for a summary of each person’s specialties. To see a full directory of DSG members and affiliates, see our People page.

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  Jess Cohen-Tanugi

  DSG Staff Chair

  Visualization Specialist
  Harvard Library

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  Topics

  • data visualization
  • building dashboards
  • data cleaning
  • data manipulation
  • mapping (non-GIS)
  • text analysis

  Software

  • Tableau
  • R
  • RStudio
  • ggplot2
  • OpenRefine
  • Quanteda
  • Google Looker Studio
  • Gephi
  • OpenRefine
• 

  Gabriel Pizzorno

  DSG Faculty Chair

  Senior Lecturer on History
  Department of History

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  Brandon Bentley

  Senior Instructional Technologist
  Academic Technology for FAS

• 

  James Capobianco

  Research & Data Librarian
  Harvard Kennedy School

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  Topics

  • data analysis
  • machine learning
  • statistical methods
  • NLP (natural language processing)
  • data visualization

  Software

  • Python
  • R
  • RStudio
  • Tableau
  • ArcGIS
  • OpenRefine
  • Jupyter
  • Google Colab
• 

  Emily Coolidge Toker

  Digital Pedagogy Librarian
  Lamont Library

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  Cole Crawford

  Senior Software Engineer, Humanities Research Computing
  Arts & Humanities Research Computing

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  Topics

  • database design
  • software engineering
  • text analysis
  • NLP (natural language processing)
  • data visualization
  • web development
  • APIs
  • cloud computing
  • DevOps
  • code review
  • data analysis

  Software

  • Python
  • JavaScript
  • PHP
  • R
  • Vue
  • React
  • Drupal
  • WordPress
  • Scalar
  • Omeka
  • Django
  • Flask
  • Astro
  • AWS
  • GitHub
  • GitHub Actions
  • NLTK
  • spacy
  • Quanteda
  • D3
  • Elasticsearch
  • MongoDB
  • Postgres
  • AWS ECS
  • AWS CDK
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • JavaScript
• 

  Rashmi Singhal

  Director
  Arts & Humanities Research Computing

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  Topics

  • IIIF
  • database design
  • APIs
  • software engineering

  Software

  • Python
  • Django
  • GitHub
  • Elasticsearch
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • JavaScript
• 

  Hugh Truslow

  Head, Social Sciences and Visualization
  Harvard College Library

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  Topics

  • data visualization
  • data cleaning
  • OCR (optical character recognition)
  • text analysis
  • network analysis
  • qualitative data analysis
  • research data management

  Software

  • Tableau
  • R
  • RStudio
  • OpenRefine
  • NVivo
  • Quanteda
  • Gephi
  • ABBYY FineReader