Upcoming Events
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Data Carpentry
REGISTER FOR DATA CARPENTRY (Harvard email required) Data Carpentry is a two-day, beginner-friendly workshop that will give you the foundational knowledge to take on data-intensive research with confidence. Data and technical skills are in high demand in the public policy field and beyond. You'll be... Continue reading →
Past Events
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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 →
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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: Roxane de la Sablonnière, University of Montreal The Working Group in Political Psychology and Behavior (WoGPoP) is an interdisciplinary forum fo... Continue reading →
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Julia Cage - 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: Julia Cage (Sciences Po Paris), ... Continue reading →
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Data Science Services Office Hours
The Data Science Services team is offering drop-in virtual office hours every Wednesday between 1pm-3pm EST on Zoom, as a way to access our FREE consulting service for short questions or problems related to statistics and/or programming. Details to drop in on DSS office hours... Continue reading →
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Foundations Seminar: Fundamentals of Digital Scholarship (Fall 2020)
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 seminar serves as a springboard for faculty, students, and staff who wish to explore the potential of dig... Continue reading →
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Data Feminism
Watch a recording of "Data Feminism" As data are increasingly mobilized in the service of governments and corporations, their unequal conditions of production, asymmetrical methods of application, and unequal effects on both individuals and groups have become increasingly difficult for data scientis... Continue reading →
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Medieval Texts and Modern Podcasts: Lessons in Digital Media Pedagogy
Edwin O. Reischauer Institute Japan Forum Lecture Series With increasing demands for remote learning and digitally-inflected pedagogy, how can educators deploy various types of online media in our teaching and scholarship? This virtual session will feature two scholars of Japan introducing how they ... Continue reading →
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Long Live the Digital Scholarship Project!
Presenters: Peter Bol, Harvard University, China Biographical Database Grace Fong, McGill University, Ming-Qing Women’s Writings Andrew Gordon, Harvard University, Japan Disasters Digital Archive Project Helen Hardacre, Harvard University, Constitutional Revision Research Project It is difficult to ... Continue reading →
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Digital Scholarship Office Hours
Do you have a digital scholarship project in mind but need some guidance on getting started with the research process? Drop in during Office Hours with questions and DSSG members will suggest tools, methodologies, and approaches that can benefit your work, and try to connect you with relevant resour... 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.