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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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 →
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CGA Virtual Forum 2022: The Uneven Geography of Climate Change
A changing climate impacts everyone’s ability to feed and support themselves, but not equally and not randomly. As the largest agricultural workforce in the world, farmers in India demonstrated in late 2021 that radical and inclusive democratic mobilization can be a force for foundational change in ... Continue reading →
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Cartography Workshop (spring 2022)
Lead Instructor: Jeff Blossom See https://gis.harvard.edu/cartography-workshop for description and fees. How to Apply: For Harvard Affiliates, please submit your application by clicking the green 'HARVARD APPLY' button(HUID login required). For Non-Harvard applicants, please submit your application... Continue reading →
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Cartography Workshop (CGA)
Lead Instructor: Jeff Blossom See https://gis.harvard.edu/cartography-workshop for description and fees. To Apply, visit the CGA website.... Continue reading →
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Web Scraping with Python
This workshop will introduce a number of tools that are useful in web scraping. When the data that you need is on a website with no download option and no API access, scraping data from the web can be your best option. This workshop assumes a basic working knowledge of Python. If you have worked wit... Continue reading →
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Industry Seminar: Toyota
Speaker: Ram Chandra Check back for details.... 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.