Love Data Week’s theme this year focuses on data as an agent of change, specifically bringing attention to how a community might use data to bring about meaningful change to policy or society. Data activism is a specific type of social activism that aims to make affirmative use of data and technology for advocacy and…
Category: Data Visualization
Love Data Week!
Welcome to Love Data Week! Be sure to check out the Love Data Week Guide for resources, activities and challenges. We’ll also be sharing a few Engage posts on issues surrounding the theme of data as an agent of change. Today’s post looks at the relationship between data literacy and data justice. Data literacy is…
Get Ready for International Love Data Week!
Next week, February 13 – 17, Connecticut College will participate in International Love Data Week. Love Data Week is a global celebration of data, taking place every year during the week of Valentine’s Day. Universities and colleges, nonprofit organizations, government agencies, corporations and individuals are encouraged to host and participate in data-related events and activities. …
NVivo for Audio Transcription and Data Analysis
post contributed by Lydia Klein ’22, Digital Scholarship Assistant The Digital Scholarship and Curriculum Center (DSCC) now offers NVivo for qualitative data analysis. NVivo allows you to import research data from virtually any source, centralize and organize your data, and analyze unstructured text, audio, video, and image data, including interviews, focus groups, surveys, social media,…
Plan Your Open Access Week Schedule Now!
Learn something new for your teaching or research every day during Open Access Week! All workshops will be online; join us from the comfort of your office or home. MONDAYData Visualization I: Explore and Clean Data with OpenRefineMonday, Oct 25th at 1:15pm This workshop will introduce OpenRefine, a powerful but user-friendly program for exploring and…
Announcing the Connecticut Digital Scholarship Exchange
The Connecticut Digital Scholarship Exchange is a year-long collaborative program hosted by Connecticut College and Trinity College. Designed to create opportunities for faculty to learn about digital scholarship, both institutions will host workshops, tours, and other events to introduce faculty to different digital scholarship tools and approaches and discuss core competencies in project management and sustainability. Workshops this fall include mapping with ArcGIS…
Back-to-School: What the Digital Scholarship & Curriculum Center (DSCC) Can Do for You
We are looking forward to welcoming everyone back to campus this month and would like to highlight all the services available at the Digital Scholarship & Curriculum Center, located on the lower level of Shain Library. The DSCC is staffed weekdays from 8:30am-5pm during the semester and 8:30am-4pm during the summer and breaks. Please feel…
Opportunity to attend the University of Victoria’s Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DSHI) for free online in June
Each June, the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada hosts the largest, longest-running Digital Humanities Summer Institute, which offers about 40-50 intensive week-long workshops on a wide variety of tools, methods, and topics related to the digital humanities. As a two-time past participant, I can highly recommend this professional development opportunity for faculty interested…
We Have Data! Workshop Recap
Thank you to Andrew Lopez and Kathy Gehring for offering a useful, informative, and fun workshop. If you missed the workshop, or if you are just curious about what data is available to you and to your students for research and class projects, read on! And for any questions about finding and using data, contact…
We Have Data!
The library provides access to a surprising amount of data that can be used to teach quantitative reasoning. Join us this Thursday to explore some of the many data resources available to you and to your students and to develop exercises using Census data, social data, voting data and more. In this workshop, we will…
