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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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 →
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Industry Seminar: Toyota
Speaker: Ram Chandra (Principal Data Scientist) Registration Check back for details.... Continue reading →
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Placing Virtual Reality: Japan’s Alternative VR History
This talk tracks the emergence of virtual reality during the “VR boom” of the early 1990s, exploring how the cultural understanding of VR transformed as it crossed the Pacific and was taken up in Japan. Japan's embrace of VR shifted it away from both its early military contexts and American-style te... Continue reading →
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From Portable Studio to Digital Archive: Otto Piene's Sketchbooks
Speaker: Lauren Hanson and Jeff Steward The Harvard Art Museums was recently gifted more than seventy sketchbooks by artist Otto Piene (1928–2014), a pioneer in multimedia and technology-based art. Piene was long interested in optical perception and kinetic forces, resulting in a body of work that e... Continue reading →
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Industry Seminar: DraftKings
Speaker: Bradley Fay (Director, Data Science Engineering) Registration Check back for details.... Continue reading →
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Working with Data (Spring 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 →
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.