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Workshop Digitization Basics Questions to ask, and things to think about before starting a digital project. Registration link: https://go.rutgers.edu/fg4btz2m Tuesday, April 8, 2025, 1:00 - 1:30 PM - Online
Workshop Data Sources 1 (major data resources, locating data, with focus on diversity and data for minoritized and underrepresented groups) Overview of major data resources, methods of locating data, with focus on diversity and data for minoritized and underrepresented groups Workshop conducted via Zoom. Register at https://libcal.rutgers.edu/event/13353227 to receive the Zoom link with instructions on how to connect. Supplemental mate... Thursday, April 10, 2025, 3:00 - 4:30 PM - Online
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. [RBS Ph.D. students only] Instruc... Friday, April 11, 2025, 4:00 - 5:00 PM - Online
Workshop Building Intelligent Recommendation Systems Dive into the fascinating world of recommender systems, the backbone of personalized experiences in today’s digital age. In this workshop, you’ll uncover how platforms like Netflix, Amazon, and Spotify predict what users want. Participants will gain insights into popular algorithms, including collab... Monday, April 14, 2025, 2:00 - 3:30 PM - Online
Workshop R Data Wrangling with dplyr, tidyr, readr, and more Some of the tidyverse's most powerful features are its abilities to import, filter, and otherwise manipulate data. This session reviews major packages within the tidyverse that relate to the essential data handling steps required before (and during) data analysis. Workshop conducted via Zoom. Regi... Thursday, April 17, 2025, 3:00 - 4:30 PM - Online
Workshop Uncovering the Findings: A Data-Diverse Perspective on AI Literacy in Korean Immigrant Families In this culminating workshop, participants will review key research findings on AI literacy within Korean immigrant families, considering how cultural context and data diversity affect AI adoption and understanding. The discussion will highlight implications for designing inclusive, culturally respo... Tuesday, April 22, 2025, 2:00 - 3:30 PM - Online
Workshop R for Reproducible Scientific Documents: knitr, rmarkdown, and Beyond The RStudio environment enables the easy creation of documents in various formats (HTML, DOC, PDF) using Rmarkdown, while knitr allows the incorporation of executable R code to produce the tables and figures in those documents. This session introduces these concepts and other packages and practices ... Thursday, April 24, 2025, 3:00 - 4:30 PM - Online
Stressbusters Woof Wednesday Ruff day? Stop in to the Paul Robeson Library during free period and take a break with therapy dogs from PAWS for People. Wednesday, April 30, 2025, 11:20 AM - 12:20 PM - Camden
Workshop Data Publication 2 (publishing to data repositories and creating R packages) 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... Thursday, May 1, 2025, 3:00 - 4:30 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, May 9, 2025, 3:00 - 4:00 PM - Online