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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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 presenter: Cecilia Mo, UC Berkeley The Working Group in Political Psychology and Behavior (WoGPoP) is an interdisciplinary forum for the presentation and di... Continue reading →
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Program on Political Economy Seminar
Zoom links for Political Economy Seminar are distributed via the seminar's mailing list. You can sign up for the list using this link: https://lists.iq.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/ppe_list All interested faculty and students are invited to attend. Today's presenter: David Broockman (UC Berkeley) Ab... Continue reading →
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Program on Political Economy Seminar
Zoom links for Political Economy Seminar are distributed via the seminar's mailing list. You can sign up for the list using this link: https://lists.iq.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/ppe_list All interested faculty and students are invited to attend. Today's presenter: David Broockman (UC Berkeley) Ab... 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: Tyler VanderWeele... Continue reading →
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Do Less Work by Using the Unix Shell
This hands-on workshop will introduce you to the Unix shell, a power tool that allows people to do complex things with just a few keystrokes, combine existing programs in new ways, and automate repetitive tasks. The Unix shell (command line) has been around longer than most of its users have been al... Continue reading →
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The Big Data Turn in the Humanities: Sailing into Uncharted Waters
The total amount of data created by 2020, if stored in a stack of single-layer Blu-ray discs, would reach seven times the distance between the Earth and the Moon. In 2019 alone, content creators uploaded 30,000 years of video to YouTube, and Naver's flagship data center, Kak, handles more informatio... Continue reading →
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Program on Political Economy Seminar
Zoom links for Political Economy Seminar are distributed via the seminar's mailing list. You can sign up for the list using this link: https://lists.iq.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/ppe_list All interested faculty and students are invited to attend. Today's presenter: Katia Zhuravskaya (Paris School ... Continue reading →
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Veterans Day (obs. for staff)
University offices are closed today. Classes will still be held.... 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: Cory McCartan (Ha... Continue reading →
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Python Natural Language Processing
This hands-on workshop will introduce foundational concepts in natural language processing (NLP) as well as techniques for analyzing text (natural language) data using Python's Natural Language ToolKit (NLTK) library. We will work through an entire basic NLP workflow covering acquiring text corpora ... 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.