Upcoming Events
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Data Carpentry
REGISTER FOR DATA CARPENTRY (Harvard email required) Data Carpentry is a two-day, beginner-friendly workshop that will give you the foundational knowledge to take on data-intensive research with confidence. Data and technical skills are in high demand in the public policy field and beyond. You'll be... Continue reading →
Past Events
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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 →
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What to Do with Millions of Books: The HathiTrust Digital Library & Research Center
Glen Worthey, from the HathiTrust Research Center, will speak on the center's latest initiatives in text and data mining. Registration and presentation via Zoom. Glen Worthey is Associate Director for Research Support Services in the HathiTrust Research Center, based in the University of Illinois ... Continue reading →
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Working with Data (Fall 2021)
In this two-day 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 Open... Continue reading →
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Discovery Series: Living in Data
Speaker: Jer Thorp To live in data is to be incessantly extracted from; to be classified and categorized, statisti-fied, sold and surveilled. Data (our data) is mined and processed for profit, power and political gain. Our clicks and likes and footsteps feed new digital methods of control. In this t... 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.