Upcoming Events
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Advanced Data Cleaning for GIS
In this workshop, we will practice working through common problems that arise when preparing mapping data for spatial analysis. You will leave with strengthened foundational GIS skills. We will also provide example approaches to especially challenging GIS data problems. We will use the open source d... Continue reading →
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Web Scraping (Part 2 of 2)
This two-day workshop teaches participants how to automate the extraction of data from websites and other online repositories into a well-formatted, locally stored dataset, for later analysis. Web scraping tools make the process of collecting large amounts of online information more efficient, and h... Continue reading →
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Web Scraping (Part 1 of 2)
This two-day workshop teaches participants how to automate the extraction of data from websites and other online repositories into a well-formatted, locally stored dataset, for later analysis. Web scraping tools make the process of collecting large amounts of online information more efficient, and h... Continue reading →
Past Events
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Foundations Seminar: Digital Teaching Methods - Tools for Assignments and Activities (Winter 2021)
Join the Digital Scholarship Support Group for Digital Teaching Methods: Tools for Assignments and Activities, an event in the DSSG's Foundations Series that focuses on the thoughtful integration of digital tools and methods in teaching and learning. The Digital Teaching Methods seminar provides a h... Continue reading →
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Data Literacy and Digital Humanities Lecture Series
The lecture series on „Data Literacy and Digital Humanities“ is an integral part of the lecture series “Digital Humanities – Theorie und Methodik”, which was founded in the Wintersemester 2014/15 by Elisabeth Burr with the aim to fill the term “Digital Humanities” with meaning by presenting the broa... Continue reading →
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East Asian Digital Scholarship Community Hour: Cool Tools for Online Teaching
The second East Asian digital scholarship community hour will start at 7:30 PM EST on 13 January 2021. The theme is "Off the Beaten Track: Cool Tools for Online Teaching." So far, we have flash presentations about mmhmm (https://www.mmhmm.app), Gather (https://gather.town), and Congregate (https://w... Continue reading →
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GIS for Humanities and Social Sciences
Lead Instructor: Jeff Blossom For more information, go to https://gis.harvard.edu/event/gis-humanities-and-social-sciences-fall-2020 See https://gis.harvard.edu/gis-humanities-and-social-sciences for description and fees. How to Apply: For Harvard Affiliates, please submit your application by click... Continue reading →
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GIS for Humanities and Social Sciences (Fall 2020)
Taught via live Zoom conference Lead Instructor: Jeff Blossom See https://gis.harvard.edu/gis-humanities-and-social-sciences for description and fees. How to Apply: For Harvard Affiliates, please submit your application by clicking the green 'HARVARD APPLY' button below (HUID login required). For N... Continue reading →
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The Intersection of Art, Technology and Activism
Recording link: https://harvard.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=2f44ca03-401e-46dc-9a52-ac8b0075e878 We need to rethink whom we, as a society, are choosing to memorialize in the form of public statues and monuments. “The People’s Memorial Project” is a campaign to rethink the future ... Continue reading →
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Working Group in Political Psychology and Behavior (WoGPoP)
Join the WoGPoP email list to receive the Zoom link. You can subscribe here: https://lists.hmdc.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/pol_psych. Today's presentation: Fall 2020 Graduate Student Session The Working Group in Political Psychology and Behavior (WoGPoP) is an interdisciplinary forum for the prese... Continue reading →
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Workshop in Applied Statistics
You can attend this workshop via this link: https://harvard.zoom.us/j/99424949004 If you would like to be added to the email list to receive reminders and information about the series, please send your email address to Soichiro Yamauchi (syamauchi@g.harvard.edu). Today's presenter: Kristen Hunter (H... Continue reading →
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Thanksgiving Break
University offices are closed today.... Continue reading →
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Version Control with Git / GitKraken
Version control software allows you to save “versions” of files -- scripts, text files, web pages, data, etc. -- which show the changes that were made to the files over time, and allows you to backtrack if necessary and undo those changes. The ability alone – of being able to compare two versions or... 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.