Welcome to the first installment of Tartan Datascapes for 2022! While we’re continuing to find ourselves navigating the challenges of the pandemic, I’m heartened by the exciting things happening on our campus to help keep folks engaged and supported during this often-difficult time. We’re no exception at CMU Libraries, and in the data world, we have a whole slate of exciting workshops to offer our CMU community this semester! Whether you’d like to learn more about keeping your data tidy and organized, making neat visualizations for your presentations and research papers, writing fanfiction using data from an original popular culture source, creating arts and crafts about data, or even learn more about what Pokémon can teach us about data, we’ve got something for everyone! Many of them are taught by yours truly, and I can promise that my workshops are super low-key and have lots of popular culture puns (which may or may not be exciting to you, but still!).
Remember, “data” doesn’t have to just be numbers that live in a spreadsheet. Data can be images, audio, film, digital resources such as articles, physical items, notes, and a whole realm of other things that you may create and/or encounter in the process of your research and schoolwork! No matter what “data” looks like for you, you’ll find a helpful workshop from us at CMU Libraries. Check out direct links to our virtual and in-person offerings below, and feel free to reach out to us at data@cmu.libanswers.com if you have any questions! Space is limited, so register soon!
by Hannah Gunderman, Data, Gaming, and Popular Culture Librarian
Getting Started with Zotero
Tuesday, February 1, 2022
10:00am - 11:00am EST
In-person
Using LabArchives to Manage your Research
Thursday, February 3, 2022
12:00pm - 1:00pm EST
Virtual
Learn Data Management through Pokémon!
Tuesday, February 8, 2022
10:00am - 11:00am EST
Virtual
Data Visualization Recommended Practices
Thursday, February 10, 2022
12:00pm - 1:00pm EST
In-person
Data Management Fundamentals
Monday, February 14, 2022
10:00am - 11:00am EST
Virtual
Data Arts and Crafts - Session 1
Monday, February 14, 2022
3:00pm - 4:30pm EST
In-person
Data Visualization in R
Tuesday, February 15, 2022
10:00am - 11:00am EST
In-person
Getting Started with Writing Fanfiction
Wednesday, February 16, 2022
10:00am - 11:00am EST
Virtual
Cleaning Untidy Data with OpenRefine
Thursday, February 17, 2022
12:00pm - 1:30pm EST
Virtual
Develop Good File Naming Habits through 1980s Album Covers!
Friday, February 18, 2022
10:00am - 11:00am EST
Virtual
Data Arts and Crafts - Session 2
Friday, February 18, 2022
3:00pm - 4:30pm EST
In-person
Reproducible Plotting with Python in Jupyter Notebook
Tuesday, February 22, 2022
10:00am - 12:00pm EST
Virtual
Intro to R, R Studio, and OpenRefine
Wednesday, March 2, 2022
9:00am - 12:00pm EST
Virtual
Data Visualization in Tableau
Thursday, March 3, 2022
12:00pm - 1:00pm EST
In-person
Introduction to R
Tuesday, March 15, 2022
10:00am - 11:00am EST
In-person
Genomics Data Carpentry Workshop (3 Day Workshop)
Wednesday, March 23 - March 25, 2022
8:45am - 1:00pm EST
Virtual
Getting Started with Zotero
Thursday, March 31, 2022
7:00pm - 8:00pm EST
Virtual
Wanting to get help on a data-focused issue but not seeing the workshop for you? Feel free to email us at data@cmu.libanswers.com and we can chat about a personalized workshop session! You can also check out our full list of workshops for the semester on our website!