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Workshop ArcGIS Web Apps and Dashboards Most people can relate to and understand "where" when sharing information. In this short, interactive workshop, we will explore sharing and engaging with your research using dashboards and other applications that integrate work done in ArcGIS Online. Previous knowledge of geographic information syst... Wednesday, November 11, 2026, 12:00 - 1:00 PM - Online
Speaker Series How Money Became God: Rethinking Wealth and Greed in Modern Society with Paul Vigna Join us for an eye-opening conversation with veteran journalist Paul Vigna as we examine his provocative book, The Almightier: How Money Became God, Greed Became Virtue, and Debt Became Sin, in which he explores the question: how did money go from a tool of commerce into the dominant faith of modern... Wednesday, November 11, 2026, 2:00 - 3:00 PM - Online
Lecture Revolutionary Tales for Veteran's Day: Examples of New Jersey's Surviving Soldiers The American Revolution in New Jersey lasted for eight long years and was accompanied by considerable violence and destruction. This was not a place anyone here today would have wanted to be. On this Veteran's Day, a noteworthy 250 years after the Declaration of Independence, it is appropriate to lo... Wednesday, November 11, 2026, 4:00 - 6:00 PM
Workshop Managing References in the Age of AI: Promises and Pitfalls AI is changing how researchers read, organize, and cite scholarly literature. This workshop explores how AI can support reference management, from interacting with PDF articles and generating summaries to organizing sources and creating citations. Participants will see practical examples of AI tools... Thursday, November 12, 2026, 12:00 - 1:00 PM - Online
Workshop Fundamentals of Tableau Students will learn how to use Tableau for creating data visualization formats and real-time data analytics features using business datasets. Learn how to prepare, analyze, and share your data. Instructor: Jonathan Torres (Business Librarian) Friday, November 13, 2026, 3:00 - 4:00 PM - Online
Workshop Data Publication 1 This session covers how to create reproducible research and literate programming documents using knitr, Sweave, Quarto, blogdown, and bookdown. The RStudio environment enables the easy creation of documents in various formats (HTML, DOC, PDF) using Rmarkdown, while knitr allows the incorporation of ... Tuesday, November 17, 2026, 2:00 - 3:30 PM - Online
Workshop Navigating the Blank Search Box: Not All Generative AI is Doing the Same Job Type the same question in a library database with AI search built in and in ChatGPT, and you'll often get very different answers, not because one is "better," but because they're built to find different things. This workshop looks at what's shaping the results you see when you use generative AI for ... Tuesday, November 17, 2026, 3:00 - 4:00 PM - Online
Workshop Accessibility and Network Analysis Learn analytical GIS techniques through these key topics: Buffer analysis Proximity and accessibility Service coverage analysis Attendees will develop a spatial analysis result with decision-based insight. (GIS & Spatial Analytics, Workshop 5) Instructor: Terri-Ann Grant Tuesday, November 17, 2026, 4:00 - 6:00 PM - Online
Workshop Capstone Lab and Portfolio Project (Applied Data Science) The capstone session will be structured as a guided lab where participants transform workshop outputs into a cohesive, portfolio-ready project using pre-configured datasets and notebooks to ensure completion within a two-hour session. Key topics during the workshop include: Structuring a data proje... Wednesday, November 18, 2026, 1:00 - 3:00 PM - Online
Workshop Visualizing Demographic Data in QGIS Many fields study historic and contemporary data about people and the places in which they live, work, and travel. In this workshop, we’ll explore the basic building blocks of geospatial visualizations, including data types, file formats, as well as some ways of manipulating and analyzing data using... Wednesday, November 18, 2026, 3:00 - 4:30 PM - New Brunswick