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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Foundations Seminar: Fundamentals of Digital Scholarship
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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Tidy Data for Researchers: Or, How to Get Your Spreadsheets to Actually Tell You Something
Cole Crawford and Jeremy Guillette will be giving the next workshop in the Alwaleed Bin Talal Research Methods in Islamic Studies series. In "Tidy Data for Researchers: Or, How to Get Your Spreadsheets to Actually Tell You Something," researchers will learn how to organize, manipulate, and visualize... Continue reading →
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Data And/In the Humanities
DSSG member Carol Chiodo is the next speaker in the Harvard-Yenching Library Forum's East Asian Digital Humanities Series. She will be speaking on "Data And/In the Humanities." Please RSVP to Feng En Tu at hyl@eadh.gmail.com. ... Continue reading →
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DSSG Office Hours, Spring 2019 (Wednesdays)
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 →
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DSSG Office Hours, Spring 2019 (Thursdays)
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 →
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DataFest 2019
DataFest is a two-day workshop held during J-term and developed by data practitioners and researchers from across the university. Hosted by the Institute for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS), the purpose of the workshop is for participants to develop skills in working with data. It is structured a... Continue reading →
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Foundations Seminar: Digital Teaching Methods
Join the Digital Scholarship Support Group for the Digital Teaching Methods workshop, a one–day seminar in the DSSG's Foundations Series that focuses on the thoughtful integration of digital tools and methods in teaching and learning. This iteration of the event is part of the Bok Center's Winter Te... Continue reading →
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AR/VR Open House: Cabot Library
Visit Cabot Library's new AR/VR studio! Cabot Library will be holding an open house for its new AR/VR studio on the second floor.... Continue reading →
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Library Carpentry 2019
The Library Learning Initiative is hosting a two-day Library Carpentry workshop on Tuesday and Wednesday, January 15-16, 2019, from 10:00-4:30 both days, including lunch and a coffee break. The workshop will cover the following in-depth, hands-on modules: Introduction to Data; the UNIX Shell; Tidy D... Continue reading →
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Using Web APIs with Python (Fall 2018)
[] Comfortable with basic Python and want to expand your digital toolkit? Interested in querying and analyzing real-time data or faceted big data? Want to process data using web services or create data mashups? This workshop will help participants integrate RESTful APIs into their data processing wo... 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.