Fall 2020 – CDVS Research and Education During COVID-19

The Center for Data and Visualization Sciences is glad to welcome you back to a new academic year! We’re excited to have friends and colleagues returning to the Triangle and happy to connect with Duke community members who will not be on campus this fall.

This fall, CDVS will expand its existing online consultations with a new chat service and new online workshops for all members of the Duke community. Since mid-March, CDVS staff have redesigned instructional sessions, constructed new workflows for accessing research data, and built new platforms for accessing data tools virtually. We look forward to connecting with you online and working with you to achieve your research goals.

In addition to our expanded online tools and instruction, we have redesigned our CDVS-Announce data newsletter to provide a monthly update of data news, events, and workshops at Duke. We hope you will consider subscribing.

Upcoming Virtual CDVS Workshops

CDVS continues to offer a full workshops series for the latest strategies and tools for data focused research. Upcoming workshops for early September include:

R for data science: getting started, EDA, data wrangling
Thursday, Sep 1, 2020 10am – 12pm
This workshop is part of the Rfun series. R and the Tidyverse are a data-first coding language that enables reproducible workflows. In this two-part workshop, you’ll learn the fundamentals of R, everything you need to know to quickly get started. You’ll learn how to access and install RStudio, how to wrangle data for analysis, gain a brief introduction to visualization, practice Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA), and how to generate reports.
Register: https://duke.libcal.com/event/6867861

Research Data Management 101
Wednesday, Sep 9, 2020 10am – 12pm
This workshop will introduce data management practices for researchers to consider and apply throughout the research lifecycle. Good data management practices pertaining to planning, organization, documentation, storage and backup, sharing, citation, and preservation will be presented using examples that span disciplines. During the workshop, participants will also engage in discussions with their peers on data management concepts as well as learn about how to assess data management tools.
Register: https://duke.libcal.com/event/6874814

R for Data Science: Visualization, Pivot, Join, Regression
Wednesday, Sep 9, 2020 1pm – 3pm
This workshop will introduce data management practices for researchers to consider and apply throughout the research lifecycle. Good data management practices pertaining to planning, organization, documentation, storage and backup, sharing, citation, and preservation will be presented using examples that span disciplines. During the workshop, participants will also engage in discussions with their peers on data management concepts as well as learn about how to assess data management tools.
Register: https://duke.libcal.com/event/6867914

ArcGIS StoryMaps
Thursday, September 10, 2020 1pm – 2:30pm
This workshop will help you get started telling stories with maps on the ArcGIS StoryMaps platform. This easy-to-use web application integrates maps with narrative text, images, and videos to provide a powerful communication tool for any project with a geographic component. We will explore the capabilities of StoryMaps, share best practices for designing effective stories, and guide participants step-by-step through the process of creating their own application.
Register: https://duke.libcal.com/event/6878545

Assignment Tableau: Intro to Tableau work-together
Friday, September 11, 2020 10am – 11:30am
Work together over Zoom on an Intro to Tableau assignment. Tableau Public (available for both Windows and Mac) is incredibly useful free software that allows individuals to quickly and easily explore their data with a wide variety of visual representations, as well as create interactive web-based visualization dashboards. Attendees are expected to watch Intro to Tableau Fall 2019 online first, or have some experience with Tableau. This will be an opportunity to work together on the assignment from the end of that workshop, plus have questions answered live.
Register: https://duke.libcal.com/event/6878629