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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Speaking to Millions: User Experience Writing in Big Tech
Join us for Speaking to Millions: User Experience Writing in Big Tech presented by Amelia Warren, Senior UX Writer at Amazon. In this presentation, Amelia will be covering: Amelia has worked to communicate with millions of users at Google, Amazon, and others, specializing in user privacy and inclusi... Continue reading →
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Visual Eloquence: A Participatory Workshop on Creating Effective Data Visualizations (Fall 2021)
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 is designed to introduce participants to the core stages of digital scholarship’s research workflow: the acquisition, manipulation, analysis, and presentation of data. This seminar is intended to serve as a springboard for faculty, students, and staff who wish to ... Continue reading →
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Discovery Series: Figures in the Sky Initiative
The Figures in the Sky Initiative (FITSI) is a digital public history project under development at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics’ Wolbach Library. FITSI’s main goal is to connect people with resources to help them understand and appreciate different astronomical cultures, as well a... 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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Dataverse Open Office Hours
Weekly office hours are open to Harvard researchers and staff to provide support for Dataverse 5.8. Demo of 5.8 will begin promptly at 11am. Open Hours: Wednesdays, 11AM - 1PM RSVP required to: support@dataverse.org For any questions on how to share your data with Dataverse, contact: support@dataver... Continue reading →
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East Asian Digital Scholarship Series: CrossAsia Integrated Textrepository Workshop
Speaker: Brent Hou-Ieong HO, East Asia Department, Berlin State Library (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin) At the April meeting of the East Asian Digital Scholarship Series, Matthias Kaun, director of Berlin State Library’s East Asia Department, introduced the CrossAsia platform (https://crossasia.org) to... Continue reading →
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GIS Institute Summer 2021
GIS Institute Instructors: Scott Bell and Jill Kelly Registration Schedule: Application deadline: Friday, March 19, 2021, 11:59 pm (Late applications can join the waitlist.) Notification of acceptance: Friday, April 2, 2021 Registration fee due ($100 for Harvard affiliates and $3,150 for other... Continue reading →
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Cartography Workshop (spring 2021)
Location: Northwest Building B129 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 applican... Continue reading →
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Would We Know Life If We Saw It?
Presentation Recording Over the last few decades, scientists have found thousands of planets beyond our own. Some of those planets might be habitable, and perhaps even inhabited already; but how can we tell? Clara Sousa-Silva (Center for Astrophysics | Harvard-Smithsonian) looks for signs of life on... 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.