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Speaker Series On Childhood Migration from Central America--In Conversation with Javier Zamora Tune in for a special conversation with New York Times bestselling author Javier Zamora as he chats with us about his riveting tale of survival and perseverance as told in his award-winning memoir Solito. Zamora’s adventure is a three-thousand-mile journey from his small town in El Salvador, throu... Thursday, November 14, 2024, 4:00 - 5:00 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 15, 2024, 3:00 - 4:00 PM - Online
Workshop Digital Privacy An introduction to tools and techniques for protecting your digital privacy. Registration link: https://go.rutgers.edu/DigitalPrivacy Monday, November 18, 2024, 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM - Online
Workshop Text Analysis with the Gale Digital Scholar Lab The Gale Digital Scholar Lab is a platform that allows researchers to do text analysis on archival collections available through Gale (see list below). In this workshop, we’ll cover the workflow for using the Lab, focusing on the Build, Clean, and Analyze steps. We’ll review curating and creating a ... Wednesday, November 20, 2024, 10:00 - 11:30 AM - Online
Public Event Mapathon for Humanitarian Relief Location: Hatchery Innovation Studio in Alexander Library 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 a... Wednesday, November 20, 2024, 4:30 - 6:30 PM - New Brunswick
Speaker Series Native Rights and Culture in Fiction–A Conversation with Mona Susan Power You’re invited to join us as Mona Susan Power chats about her newest novel A Council of Dolls. This conversation highlights how her work explores Native Rights and Native American culture, in particular using an important symbol that anchors comfort and companionship in Native life: dolls. From the... Wednesday, November 20, 2024, 7:00 - 8:00 PM - Online
Workshop Fundamentals of SAS: Statistical Analysis Software This workshop will teach students how to explore and access SAS data sets, import and export non-SAS file formats, and manipulate data with formulas and assignment statements. All skill levels are welcomed! Instructor: Jonathan Torres (Business Librarian) Thursday, November 21, 2024, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM - Online
Workshop Text Analysis with the Gale Digital Scholar Lab The Gale Digital Scholar Lab is a platform that allows researchers to do text analysis on archival collections available through Gale (see list below). In this workshop, we’ll cover the workflow for using the Lab, focusing on the Build, Clean, and Analyze steps. We’ll review curating and creating a ... Thursday, November 21, 2024, 2:00 - 3:30 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... Thursday, November 21, 2024, 3:00 - 4:00 PM - Online
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... Tuesday, November 26, 2024, 12:00 - 1:30 PM - Online