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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Working Group in Political Psychology and Behavior (WoGPoP)
Join the WoGPoP email list to receive the Zoom link. You can subscribe here: https://lists.hmdc.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/pol_psych. Today's presenter: Ashley Jardina, Duke University The Working Group in Political Psychology and Behavior (WoGPoP) is an interdisciplinary forum for the presentatio... Continue reading →
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Program on Political Economy Seminar
Zoom links for Political Economy Seminar are distributed via the seminar's mailing list. You can sign up for the list using this link: https://lists.iq.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/ppe_list All interested faculty and students are invited to attend. Today's presenter: Paola Sapienza (Northwestern Uni... Continue reading →
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Workshop in Applied Statistics
You can attend this workshop via this link: https://harvard.zoom.us/j/99424949004 If you would like to be added to the email list to receive reminders and information about the series, please send your email address to Soichiro Yamauchi (syamauchi@g.harvard.edu). Today's presenter: Yiling Chen (Harv... Continue reading →
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Python Web-Scraping (flipped classroom)
This hands-on workshop will introduce basic techniques for web-scraping using popular Python libraries. This is an intermediate-level, and somewhat challenging, workshop appropriate for those who have been using Python for at least a few months. You should be familar with all of the material in the ... Continue reading →
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The Academia Sinica Digital Humanities Research Platform
Launched in October 2018, the Academia Sinica Digital Humanities Research Platform (https://idh.ascdc.sinica.edu.tw/member/) is an one-stop platform of source materials, digital tools, and collaboration that enables big data analysis for innovative research. Combining open access and crowd collabora... Continue reading →
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Program on Political Economy Seminar
Zoom links for Political Economy Seminar are distributed via the seminar's mailing list. You can sign up for the list using this link: https://lists.iq.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/ppe_list All interested faculty and students are invited to attend. Today's presenter: Andy Eggers (University of Oxfor... 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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Visual Eloquence: A Participatory Workshop on Creating Effective Data Visualizations (Fall 2020)
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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Workshop in Applied Statistics
You can attend this workshop via this link: https://harvard.zoom.us/j/99424949004 If you would like to be added to the email list to receive reminders and information about the series, please send your email address to Soichiro Yamauchi (syamauchi@g.harvard.edu). Today's presenter: Fabian Pfeffer (U... Continue reading →
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Python Introduction
This hands-on workshop introduces the basic elements of Python by working through an example of how to analyze text data. Python is a general purpose programming language commonly used for data cleaning, analysis, visualization, and other applications. Note that the focus of the workshop is on how t... 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.