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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IACS Computefest: Korali
Registration In this workshop we will focus on Bayesian inference as well as optimizationand sampling with application to the Lotka-Volterra predator-prey system ofnon-linear ordinary differential equations (ODEs). The first half of theworkshop will focus on the theoretical foundations for the prob... Continue reading →
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IACS Computefest: Bedrock Data Science Workshop
Fundamentals for Courses in Machine Learning, Data Science, and AIVirtual WorkshopJanuary 10-21, 2022 Registration The objective of the 2022 ComputeFest: BEDROCK DATA SCIENCE is to provide you with the fundamental skills in math, statistics, and programming that you will need in order to undertake a... Continue reading →
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Statistical Cluster Analysis and Space-Time Analysis Workshop
This event is part of the Harvard Affiliate Only Spatial Data Science Workshop Series. Date: 1/21/2022Time: 12:00 PM ETLength: 2 hours of presentation with an hour for open discussion/office hours afterwards Registration A link to the ArcGIS Pro project for the first workshop is now available here... Continue reading →
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Discovery Series: Emotion in Data Visualization
Speakers: Martin Wattenberg and Fernanda Viégas Join us for the first event in our spring 2022 Discovery Series! Martin Wattenberg and Fernanda Viégas, leaders of Google’s PAIR (People+AI Research) initiative and new SEAS faculty, will speak on Emotion in Data Visualization. Zoom registration The r... Continue reading →
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Digital Teaching Workshop: Tools for Assignments and Activities
The Digital Teaching Methods seminar provides a hands-on introduction to several approaches that have been used successfully at Harvard, all grounded in specific pedagogical examples and use cases. Whether you will be teaching with digital tools for the first time in the coming semester, or have alr... Continue reading →
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Data Science Education Panel: Leading the conversation and the democratization of data science
Registration Topic: Who drives the conversation and how do we democratize data science? Moderated by: Cathy ChuteExecutive Director, Harvard Institute for Applied Computational ScienceAssistant Dean for Professional Programs, Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Panelists: Jo B... Continue reading →
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Open Access as a Game Changer for Digital Scholarship
Come hear practicing digital scholarship librarians (and DSSG members!) Carol Chiodo and Hugh Truslow talk about the transformative impact that Open Access, Open Data, and Open Software have had on digital scholarship in the humanities and social sciences. This event is part of the Harvard Library's... Continue reading →
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Discovery Series: Opportunities Beyond Bars
Speaker: Jenn Halen Can Virtual Reality be used in a time of extreme isolation to connect undergraduate students from Harvard with mentees in a juvenile detention center in meaningful ways? Will this service-learning environment be as fulfilling as in person work? How can VR provide unique education... Continue reading →
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Ethical Reasoning for Computer Scientists
In a follow-on to HILT's 2021 Conference, we will learn how Embedded EthiCS meets the challenge of making ethical reasoning integral to computer science education. We'll explore how embedding philosophers directly into computer science courses helps students learn how to think through the ethical an... Continue reading →
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Text Analysis with HathiTrust Digital Library and Research Center Analytics
The HathiTrust Digital Library and HathiTrust Research Center's suite of analytical tools offer rich opportunities for researchers to explore the HathiTrust corpus of texts, including those still under copyright protection. Come learn how to build collections of texts and analyze them, even without ... 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.