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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Tidying Data with Google Sheets, OpenRefine, and Python (Remote Delivery)
[This workshop will be delivered via Zoom due to the COVID-19 pandemic] In his paper "Tidy Data," Hadley Wickham riffs on Tolstoy: "Like families, tidy datasets are all alike but every messy dataset is messy in its own way." When we spend 75% of our "analysis" time cleaning and preprocessing data, i... Continue reading →
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Scalar in the Classroom (Remote Delivery)
Introducing multimedia assignments into a class for the first time can seem intimidating. In this workshop, we will help you remediate an existing assignment in Scalar, a free, open source authoring and publishing platform designed to make it easy for authors and instructors to create born-digital s... Continue reading →
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[Postponed] ArtTechPsyche VI
Postponed: this event has been postponed due to university guidelines on the coronavirus. Don't worry - ArtTechPsyche will return next year. Now in its sixth year, ArtTechPsyche celebrates human expression at the intersection of technology and the arts through numerous immersive digital experiences,... Continue reading →
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[Postponed] Text Analysis in R with Quanteda
Postponed: this event has been postponed due to university guidelines on the coronavirus. We will be rescheduling the talk for later in the semester, in a format yet to be determined (virtual or in-person). Are you interested in using natural language processing or text analysis in your research? R ... Continue reading →
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The Hedera Project: Reading that Fits
Postponed: this event has been postponed due to university guidelines on the coronavirus. We will be rescheduling the talk for later in the semester, in a format yet to be determined (virtual or in-person). Hedera is an online language learning environment inspired by research on how people acquire ... Continue reading →
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Visual Eloquence: A Hands-On Workshop for Creating Effective Data Visualizations (Spring 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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Foundations Seminar: Fundamentals of Digital Scholarship (Spring 2020)
Fundamentals of Digital Scholarship is a two-day seminar designed to introduce participants to the core stages of digital scholarship’s research workflow: the acquisition, manipulation, analysis, and presentation of data. This seminar is intended to serve as a springboard for faculty, students, and ... Continue reading →
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DSSG Office Hours, Spring 2020 (Wednesdays)
Due to the impacts of the coronavirus, we are only able to offer remote office hours. These will be held at the same times as in-person office hours. Please fill out the same Google Form linked above so that we can ensure we have enough volunteers on hand to handle both Zoom sessions and in-person c... Continue reading →
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DSSG Office Hours, Spring 2020 (Thursdays)
Due to the impacts of the coronavirus, we are only able to offer remote office hours. These will be held at the same times as in-person office hours. Please fill out the same Google Form linked above so that we can ensure we have enough volunteers on hand to handle both Zoom sessions and in-person c... Continue reading →
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Datafest 2020
Numerous DSSG members will be leading workshops at DataFest 2020: DataFest 2020 is a collaboration among many Harvard institutions, including the following partners:... 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.