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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
Workshop A Guide to the Ethical Implications of Generative AI Generative AI has moved faster than our collective understanding of its consequences, from data privacy to environmental cost to how it shapes the way we think and learn. Our discussion will delve into the critical, ethical, and societal considerations of AI. We will examine how biases in training d... Tuesday, November 3, 2026, 3:00 - 4:00 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 welcome! Instructor: Jonathan Torres (Business Librarian) Thursday, November 5, 2026, 11:00 AM - 12:00 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. This workshop is limited to RBS P... Friday, November 6, 2026, 3:00 - 4:00 PM - Online