Data-Driven Research & Digital Scholarship Training Hub

Recorded Workshops & Tutorials

Getting Data

• Creating a Dataset: DIY Data and Building a Dataset from the Ground Up by Cassandra Hradil
• Scraping Open Data from the Web with Beautiful Soup by Jajwalya Karajgikar

Working with Data: Computational Text Analysis and Text Mining

• Text Mining at Penn Libraries by Jajwalya Karajgikar
• Introduction to Text Analysis Workshop by Jajwalya Karajgikar
• Analyzing and Visualizing Text with Constellate and ProQuest TDM Studio by Emily Esten
• Creating a Minimal Web Server by Andy Janco
• Datasets for Text Mining by Scott Enderle
• Topic Modeling Tool Quick Start Guide by Scott Enderle

Working with Data: Qualitative Data Analysis Software

• Introduction to the Qualitative Data Repository by Lynda Kellam and Joanna Thompson
• Introduction to NVivo Software for Qualitative Data Analysis by Lynda Kellam
• Exploring Qualitative Data in NVivo by Lynda Kellam

Working with Data: Data Management, Reproducibility, and Literacy

• Research Data Management for Teams by Lauren Phegley
• Introduction to Data Curation by Lauren Phegley
• DMPTool for Data Management Plans by Lauren Phegley
• Data Cleaning Using OpenRefine by Lauren Phegley 
  • Blog Post - Data Wrangling with OpenRefine by Emily Esten
• Writing a Data Management Plan by Lauren Phegley
• Planning for Your Data: Organization and Storage Tips by Margaret Janz
• Creating Inclusive Surveys by Margaret Janz
• What’s Going On in this Graph? Environmental Data Visualization Literacy Workshop With R by Jajwalya Karajgikar

Looking for more Data Management Support? Check out our Data Management Resource page.

Working with Data: Mapping and GIS

• Visualizing Space: Mapping with Leaflet by Cassandra Hradil
• Visualizing Space with ArcGIS and QGIS by Girmaye Misgna
• Learn to create a Geo-Heat Map by Girmaye Misgna

Looking for more ArcGIS and Mapping? Check out our GIS and Mapping page.

Telling Stories with Data: Creating Interactive Data Visualizations

• Creating Interactive Web Visualizations with D3 by Cassandra Hradil
• Interactive Web Visualization with R Shiny by Jajwalya Karajgikar
• Interactive Web Visualization with Tableau by Emily Esten
• Network Visualization with R by Jajwalya Karajgikar

Telling Stories with Data: Exhibits and Story Maps

• Mukurtu CMS by Jennifer Garcon
• Digital Storytelling with Timelines and StoryMaps by Jennifer Garcon
• Get Started with ArcGIS StoryMaps by Girmaye Misgna

Digital Research Workflow

• Command Line Basics by Sasha Renniger and Scott Enderle (see Command Line Resources in GitHub)
• Basics of Versioning with Git by Sasha Renniger and Scott Enderle (see Git Resources in GitHub)
• Simplify Your Archival Research Workflow by Jennifer Garcon
• LaTeX Fundamentals by our Science and Digital Initiatives Librarian, Lauren Gala

Research Communication

• You Do What Now? Explaining your research to non-specialists by Margaret Janz