Upcoming Events
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Advanced Data Cleaning for GIS
In this workshop, we will practice working through common problems that arise when preparing mapping data for spatial analysis. You will leave with strengthened foundational GIS skills. We will also provide example approaches to especially challenging GIS data problems. We will use the open source d... Continue reading →
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Web Scraping (Part 2 of 2)
This two-day workshop teaches participants how to automate the extraction of data from websites and other online repositories into a well-formatted, locally stored dataset, for later analysis. Web scraping tools make the process of collecting large amounts of online information more efficient, and h... Continue reading →
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Web Scraping (Part 1 of 2)
This two-day workshop teaches participants how to automate the extraction of data from websites and other online repositories into a well-formatted, locally stored dataset, for later analysis. Web scraping tools make the process of collecting large amounts of online information more efficient, and h... Continue reading →
Past Events
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Intro to GIS
This workshop is an introductory primer into using GIS for simple mapmaking projects. We will learn the basic file formats, how to import and style data, and we will make a map. No experience necessary. Students, faculty, and staff who have taken this workshop have said: Workshop sessions are limite... Continue reading →
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DSSG Lab Session
The Digital Scholarship Support Group invites you to come work on your projects in a collaborative environment with DSSG members and other scholars. In these informal, drop-in lab sessions, you can bring your questions, or just have a supportive environment in which to get your work done. For Spring... Continue reading →
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Fundamentals of Digital Scholarship
Fundamentals of Digital Scholarship introduces participants to the core stages of digital scholarship’s research workflow: the acquisition, manipulation, analysis, and presentation of data. This two-day seminar serves as a springboard for faculty, students, and staff who wish to explore the potentia... Continue reading →
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Adversity Reporting in Counselor Recommendation Letters
Our study provides a survey of the various framing devices that counselors use to share students' adversities in their recommendation letters. Admission officers use contextual data about students' background, personal qualities, and interests to inform their assessment of applicants' achievement an... Continue reading →
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The Hedera Project: Reading that Fits
Ivy Livingston and Bill Barthelmy will present Hedera. Hedera is an online language learning environment inspired by research on how people acquire language, particularly the role of extensive reading in linguistic development. Hedera gauges the readability of texts based on the words a learner know... Continue reading →
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Introduction to Text Mining in Japanese
Workshop Instructors: JUNGEUN (JUNE) LIM, Japan Digital Fellow, Japan Digital Research Center, Reischauer Institute KATHERINE MATSUURA, Japan Digital Scholarship Librarian Japan Digital Research Center, Fung Library Workshop summary: Led by Jungeun “June” Lim (Japan Digital Fellow at the Reischauer ... Continue reading →
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Cancelled: Fundamentals of Digital Scholarship
CANCELLED: Fundamentals of Digital Scholarship introduces participants to the core stages of digital scholarship’s research workflow: the acquisition, manipulation, analysis, and presentation of data. This two-day seminar serves as a springboard for faculty, students, and staff who wish to explore t... Continue reading →
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Visual Eloquence: A Participatory Workshop on Creating Effective Data Visualizations
Are you interested in using data visualizations to explore your data or as part of your research output, but unsure of where to start? Are you already using data viz, but want to learn to create more effective presentations with different applications or programming languages? Consider attending Vis... Continue reading →
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Hermeneutics in the Age of Big Data
Data collection and interpretation are necessary parts of any kind of scholarly research. The extent and character of the data collected by a researcher has always been dependent on the types of tools and corpora known to the researcher. With the advent of technological advancements in the fields of... Continue reading →
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Working with Data (Fall 2022)
In this workshop, you will get a sense of what is possible working with humanities data and understand how humanities scholars approach “data”. We will introduce multiple scenarios with different datasets to help you develop strategies for organizing and cleaning data. Tools may include OpenRefine, ... Continue reading →
About the Harvard Discovery Series
The Harvard Discovery Series brought scholars on the frontiers of digital knowledge-making to a Harvard audience in an intimate and interactive setting. From an archaeologist reconstructing tombs in virtual reality, to scholars challenging power differentials through data feminism, to a quantum astrochemist using high-performance computing to search for life among the stars, these presentations of disparate topics demonstrated the unifying potential of digital methods and tools in scholarly and pedagogical pursuits. The series went online in 2020 and was sunset in 2022.