Upcoming Events
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Digital Presentation for Academics
In this workshop, participants will learn how to enhance their scholarly impact by learning: how to create better slides; which digital tools to use for different presentation tasks; how to create an interconnected digital scholarly presence. We'll go over graphic design principles and how to create... Continue reading →
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Visual Eloquence: A Hands-On 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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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 serves as a springboard for faculty, students, and staff who wish to explore the potential of digital sch... Continue reading →
Past Events
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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 →
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Text Analysis in R with Quanteda
Are you interested in using natural language processing or text analysis in your research? R is one of the most recommended languages for TA/NLP, partly because of an ecosystem of libraries designed to tackle common tasks such as corpus creation, cleaning and preprocessing, modeling, analysis, prese... 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 fall 2... 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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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 summer... Continue reading →
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GIS Institute Summer 2022
GIS Institute Instructors: Scott Bell and Jill Kelly Registration Schedule: Application deadline (extended): Friday, March 18, 2022, 11:59 pm (Late applications may join the waitlist) Notification of acceptance: Friday, April 1, 2022 Registration fee due ($100 for Harvard affiliates and $3,150... 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.