Data and Visualization Services is happy to announce its Fall 2016 Workshop Series. Learn new ways of enhancing your research with a wide range of data driven research methods, data tools, and data sources.

Can’t attend a session? We record and share most of our workshops online. We are also happy to consult on any of the topics above in person. We look forward to seeing you in the workshops, in the library, or online!

Data Sources

Web Scraping and Gathering Data from Websites (Sep 27)

Data Cleaning and Analysis

OpenRefine: Data/Text Cleaning, Mining and Transformations (Sep 9)

Regular Expressions (Sep 26)

Data Analysis

Introduction to Stata (Two sessions: Sep 21, Oct 18)

Introduction to R: Data Transformations, Analysis, and Data Structures (Sep 13)

Mapping and GIS

Introduction to ArcGIS (Two sessions: Sep 14, Oct 13)

Introduction to QGIS (Sep 29)

ArcGIS Online (Oct 17)

Data Visualization

Data Visualization with Excel (Sep 19)

Designing Academic Figures and Posters (Sep 20)

Making Data Visual (Sep 29)

Advanced Tableau (Data Structures) (Oct 5)

Graphic Design for Conceptual Diagrams (Oct 7)

Adobe Illustrator for Diagrams and Visualizations (Oct 14)

Visualizing Qualitative Data (Oct 19)
Visualizing Basic Survey Data in Tableau – Likert Scales (Nov 10)

SPRING 2016: Data and Visualization Workshops

Interested in getting started in data driven research or exploring a new approach to working with research data? Data and Visualization Services’ spring workshop series features a range of courses designed to showcase the latest data tools and methods. Begin working with data in our Basic Data Cleaning/Analysis or the new Structuring Humanities Data workshop. Explore data visualization in the Making Data Visual class. Our wide range of workshops offers a variety of approaches for the meeting the challenges of 21st century data driven research. Please join us!