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Workshop The Environmental Impact of AI Join us to explore the environmental impact of generative AI, from the electricity and water that data centers consume to the pressure they put on power grids and the communities where they are built. We will examine what the current evidence shows about the scale of that impact. You'll also learn h... Wednesday, October 14, 2026, 3:00 - 4:00 PM - Hybrid
Workshop Which Citation Manager? This workshop will provide students with an overview of the main features of three of the most popular citation management software programs: RefWorks, Mendeley, and Zotero. Learn which may be best for your research purposes. Instructor: Jonathan Torres (Business Librarian) Thursday, October 15, 2026, 12:00 - 1:00 PM - Online
Workshop Wikidata Edit-a-Thon: Newark Artists, Activists, and Academics Join librarians from John Cotton Dana Library for a Wikidata Edit-a-Thon in honor of Rutgers University–Newark’s 80th anniversary. This edit-a-thon will focus on improving and expanding profiles in Wikidata for Activists, Artists, and Academics from and within Newark. Together, we will identify and ... Monday, October 19, 2026, 12:00 - 2:00 PM - Newark
Workshop Data Visualization 1 This workshop covers basic data visualization in R, with emphasis on ggplot2 and associated packages. The focus here is on R techniques, with a brief comparison to Python techniques for accomplishing similar tasks, such as seaborn and matplotlib. Part of the Data Topics series of workshops. Worksho... Tuesday, October 20, 2026, 2:00 - 3:30 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 ... Wednesday, October 21, 2026, 3:30 - 5:00 PM - Online
Workshop Growing Your Research Network: Using Academic Profiles to Connect and Be Found Your research doesn't speak for itself until people can find it and find you. This workshop introduces graduate students to the platforms researchers use to discover colleagues in their field, stay current on emerging work, and share their own research beyond the traditional journal article, includi... Tuesday, October 27, 2026, 12:00 - 1:00 PM - Online
Workshop Data Visualization 2 This session covers creating interactive visualizations with Shiny in RStudio, delivering Shiny visualizations on the web, and hosting a Shiny server. Workshop conducted via Zoom. Register to receive the Zoom link with instructions on how to connect. Supplemental materials are available at https://l... Tuesday, October 27, 2026, 2:00 - 3:30 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... Wednesday, October 28, 2026, 3:30 - 5:00 PM - Online
Workshop Avoiding Plagiarism with Style Learn strategies for writing and citing to avoid plagiarism while keeping your writing voice intact. Monday, November 2, 2026, 11:30 AM - 12:15 PM - Online
Workshop Data Sources 1 This session presents an overview of major data resources and methods of locating data with a focus on diversity and data for minorities and underrepresented groups. Workshop conducted via Zoom. Register to receive the Zoom link with instructions on how to connect. Supplemental materials are availab... Tuesday, November 3, 2026, 2:00 - 3:30 PM - Online