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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
Public Event Mapathon for Humanitarian Relief Celebrate GIS Day and Geography Awareness week! Together with fellow Rutgers students, staff, and faculty, you will contribute geospatial data to OpenStreetMap, a free and editable map of the world that is used by communities, organizations, and governments worldwide to address local development cha... Wednesday, November 18, 2026, 4:00 - 6:00 PM - New Brunswick
Workshop Intro to Amarel HPC Cluster This short course helps everyone make those first few steps toward productively using a Linux cluster for research — all members of the Rutgers community have free access to the Amarel Cluster. The workshop covers the basics of HPC Cluster, Web access to the cluster, SLURM, File System and Storage, ... Thursday, November 19, 2026, 1:00 - 2:30 PM - Online
Workshop The Literature Review for Beginners The Literature Review for Beginners: It's been said that a problem well-stated is a problem half solved.  Formulating a focused, workable research question supplies a roadmap for research and writing.  And almost all graduate-level writing projects, whether in nursing, history, psychology, or any ot... Thursday, November 19, 2026, 1:00 - 2:00 PM - Online