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Workshop Using SAS and WRDS Students will learn how to use, retrieve, export, and parse datasets with Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS). WRDS is a web-based business data management system that allows researchers to retrieve information from financial, economic, and marketing data sources. This workshop is limited to RBS P... Friday, November 6, 2026, 3:00 - 4:00 PM - Online

Workshop Evaluating AI Output: How to Discern Accuracy, Reasoning, and Framing Generative AI tools produce output that sounds confident and well-reasoned — but sounding right and being right are not the same thing. This workshop introduces Discernment, one of four core competencies in the AI Fluency Framework, as a structured way to evaluate AI-generated content across three d... Tuesday, November 10, 2026, 3:00 - 4:00 PM - Online

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 Incorporating AI in Research, Literature Review, and Classroom Assignments In this workshop, college students will be introduced to the transformative potential of Artificial Intelligence (AI) such as ChatGPT and Gemini in research and literature review. Participants will learn how to effectively harness AI tools and learn about different AI applications that can be used i... Friday, November 20, 2026, 2:00 - 3:00 PM - Online

Workshop Data Publication 2 Sharing your data and code is the essential step in maximizing the impact and usefulness of your research. This workshop first reviews repositories for data publication such as Dataverse, ICPSR, OSF, Zenodo, and more. Then we turn to a detailed discussion of building R packages. R Packages are an ex... Tuesday, November 24, 2026, 2:00 - 3:30 PM - Online

Workshop Altmetrics: What Are They and How to Use Them Effectively for Research Impact Designed for faculty, researchers, graduate students, and other academic professionals, this workshop introduces Altmetrics and explores how they can be used to understand and communicate research impact beyond traditional citation counts. Participants will learn how Altmetrics track online attentio... Wednesday, December 2, 2026, 1:00 - 2:00 PM - Online