Date & Time: 2/8/2024 @ 2:00pm-2:45pm
Instructors: Brittany Norwood, Policy and International Affairs Librarian
Location: Stokes Viz Hub - Donald E. Stokes Library, Room 070
Reserve your spot: https://libcal.princeton.edu/calendar/events/zotero1s24
Description: Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool for reference management. Once we have Zotero installed and running, you will learn how to collect your research sources and organize them into a single, searchable interface. We will show you how to create a document and insert the footnotes with the click of a button. You will learn how to, instantly, create the bibliography in ANY of the popular citation styles.
Date & Time: 2/15/2024 @ 11:00am-12:00am
Instructors: Ofira Schwartz, Social Sciences Data & Sociology Librarian
Location: Stokes Viz Hub - Donald E. Stokes Library, Room 070
Reserve your spot: https://libcal.princeton.edu/event/11666675
Description: Are you curious to learn more about Excel? Interested in refining your Excel skills? Wondering if you can use it more effectively? Join us for this introduction to Excel functions workshop. We will discuss using Excel functions, as well as working with text and dates. No previous knowledge required.
Date & Time: 2/22/2024 @ 11:00am-12:00pm
Instructors: Ofira Schwartz, Social Sciences Data & Sociology Librarian
Location: Stokes Viz Hub - Donald E. Stokes Library, Room 070
Reserve your spot: https://libcal.princeton.edu/calendar/events/PivotTables24
Description: PivotTables are a powerful tool to calculate, summarize, and analyze data that lets you see comparisons, patterns, and trends in your data. This session will introduce participants PivotTables and their functionality. We will also discuss creating PivotCharts, a graphical representation of a data summary displayed in a PivotTable.
Date & Time: 2/22/2024 @ 4:30pm - 6:00pm
Instructor: Jerry Zhu is a LaTeX trainer in the Engineering Library
Location: Stokes Viz Hub - Donald E. Stokes Library, Room 070
Reserve your spot: https://libcal.princeton.edu/calendar/events/LaTeXs2024
Description: An introduction to the typesetting system LaTeX will be provided using the online editor Overleaf. LaTex allows advanced document preparation and typesetting of complex mathematical formulas. Overleaf offers advanced functionality like collaborative editing and versioning.
Date & Time: 2/27/2024 @ 2:00Pm - 3:30pm
Instructor: Ameet Doshi, Head Stokes Library
Location: Stokes Viz Hub - Donald E. Stokes Library, Room 070
Reserve your spot: https://libcal.princeton.edu/calendar/events/vizresearchs24
Description: All are invited to attend this in-person, hands-on workshop using library databases and freely available VOSViewer software to create informative (and aesthetically beautiful) visualizations of scientific domains. The workshop will take place in-person at Stokes Library. Space is limited so please register in advance.
Date & Time: 2/29/2024 @ 12:30pm-1:15pm
Instructors: Brittany Norwood, Policy and International Affairs Librarian
Location: Stokes Viz Hub - Donald E. Stokes Library, Room 070
Reserve your spot: https://libcal.princeton.edu/calendar/events/Zotero2s24
Description: Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool for reference management. Once we have Zotero installed and running, you will learn how to collect your research sources and organize them into a single, searchable interface. We will show you how to create a document and insert the footnotes with the click of a button. You will learn how to, instantly, create the bibliography in ANY of the popular citation styles.
Date & Time: 3/1/2024 @ 10:00am - 11:30am
Instructor: Ameet Doshi, Head Stokes Library
Location: Stokes Viz Hub - Donald E. Stokes Library, Room 070
Reserve your spot: https://libcal.princeton.edu/calendar/events/causalinferences24
Description: All are invited to attend this hands-on workshop to learn about causal inference methods using the R programming language. We will explore commonly applied methods for revealing causal relationships in public policy and social sciences including regression discontinuity. Attendees will be provided data and R code during the session.
Date & Time: 3/19/2024 @ 10:30pm - 12:00pm
Instructor: Ofira Schwartz, Social Sciences Data & Sociology Librarian
Location: Stokes Viz Hub - Donald E. Stokes Library, Room 070
Reserve your spot: https://libcal.princeton.edu/calendar/events/introstatas24
Description: Are you new to data analysis and/or Stata? Are you interested in using Stata for your research project? During this hands-on workshop will discuss data preparation (cleaning, merging, recoding, etc.), descriptive statistics, introduction to data visualization, and introduction to linear regression. No previous knowledge of data analysis and/or Stata is required.
Hardware/software prerequisites: Please make sure you have access to Stata prior to the workshop. Information about accessing data could be found here.
Date & Time: 3/21/2024 @ 2:00pm - 3:30pm
Instructor: Ofira Schwartz, Social Sciences Data & Sociology Librarian
Location: Stokes Viz Hub - Donald E. Stokes Library, Room 070
Reserve your spot: https://libcal.princeton.edu/calendar/events/IntroTableaus24
Description: Tableau is a data visualization tool that helps users create charts, graphs, maps and dashboards for visualizing and analyzing data. It provides a platform for understanding data, and for sharing insight discovered through the data with others.
This 90-minutes workshop offers a gentle introduction to data visualization with Tableau. Attendees will learn how to connect to and edit data sources; use the Tableau workspace to create data visualizations; build a range of chart types; create quick calculations; and build an interactive dashboard to present data insight. No prior programming knowledge is needed. Space is limited, please sign up early to reserve a spot.
Date & Time: 3/26/2024 @ 10:30am-12:00pm
Instructors: Ofira Schwartz, Social Sciences Data & Sociology Librarian
Location: Stokes Viz Hub - Donald E. Stokes Library, Room 070
Reserve your spot: https://libcal.princeton.edu/calendar/events/rggplots24
Description: All are invited to this hands-on workshop which will introduce attendees to the principles of data visualization using R’s ggplot package. Participants will learn how to make visually appealing plots in a well-informed way, understanding the basic steps and language of the ggplot package. Previous knowledge of R is not required but may be helpful.
Date & Time: 3/28/2024 @ 10:30am - 12:00pm
Instructor: Wangyal Shawa, Geographic Information Systems Librarian, Digital Map and Geospatial Information (GIS) Center
Location: Stokes Viz Hub - Donald E. Stokes Library, Room 070
Reserve your spot: https://libcal.princeton.edu/calendar/events/IntroArcGISs24
Description: In this introduction to GIS workshop, you will use ArcGIS Pro software to explore geographic data, tables and create maps. This workshop will also show how to use the GIS Portal site that Princeton University Library hosts to add geographic data downloaded over the internet, and analyze data and create maps and then share them with the public. No previous GIS experience is needed to take this workshop.
