Past Events
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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 →
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DSSG Lab Sessions
The DSSG Lab Session on Friday, May 20th will be remote-only due to a planned power outage in the Science Center. Please do still join us via the Zoom link below. The Digital Scholarship Support Group invites you to come work on your projects in a collaborative environment with DSSG members and othe... 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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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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Keynote: Trust in Science
Speaker: Kate Crawford (Research Professor of Communication and STS @ USC Annenberg) Registration Professor Kate Crawford is a leading international scholar of the social and political implications of artificial intelligence. Her work focuses on understanding large-scale data systems in the wider co... 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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Discovery Series: An Update on Virtual Harvard
Speaker: Rus Gant As we move forward with an ever rapidly increasing on-line component to everyday education at Harvard it is clear from the experience of the last two years that we need new ways to deliver a high-quality pedagogical product to our students be they remote or residential. While appli... Continue reading →
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From Analysis to Action: Engaging Through Storytelling Workshop
This event is part of the Harvard Affiliate Only Spatial Data Science Workshop Series.Date: 2/4/2022Time: 12:00 PM ETLength: 1.5 hours of presentation with an hour for open discussion/office hours afterwardsRegistration link. Panelists: Lauren Bennett Alberto Nieto Ross Donihue Jennifer Bell Course ... 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.