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Stokes Viz Hub

The Stokes Visualization Hub is a space and service, that responds to the evolving digital research, data visualization, and qualitative analysis needs of the Princeton Students and Faculty, with a focus on SPIA and the related social sciences.

Citation Management with Zotero

Date & Time: 9/25/2024 @ 1:00pm-1:45pm

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/zoterof2024asvh

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.

Citation Management with Zotero

Date & Time: 10/9/2024 @ 1:00pm-1:45pm

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/zoterof2024bsvh

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.

Intro to R for Social Sciences

Date & Time: 10/21/2024 @ 3:00Pm - 4:30pm

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/Rintroaf2024

Description: Are you new to R? Curious about applications within the social sciences? All are welcome to attend this introductory-level workshop to learn how to program in R Studio. Attendees will gain hands-on experience with: inputting and analyzing data, creating simple tables, visualizing information, and reproducing a social science research paper using R. No advance preparation needed. 

Working with R tidyr and dplyr Packages

Date & Time: 10/23/2024 @ 1:30pm - 3:00pm

Instructor: Boriana Pratt, Statistical Programmer, Office of Population Rese

Location: Stokes Viz Hub - Donald E. Stokes Library, Room 070

Reserve your spot: https://libcal.princeton.edu/calendar/events/Rtidyversef2024

Description: This workshop introduces two modern R packages, both part of R's"tidyverse" that provide intuitive tools for handling common data management tasks. The first package, tidyr, provides functions that reshape data. The second package, dplyr, provides a set of functions (referred to as "verbs") that allow you to easily subset observations, reorder observations, select specific variables, add new variables, group observations, and summarize groups of observations.

Intro to R for Social Sciences

Date & Time: 10/28/2024 @ 3:00Pm - 4:30pm

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/Rintrobf2024

Description: Are you new to R? Curious about applications within the social sciences? All are welcome to attend this introductory-level workshop to learn how to program in R Studio. Attendees will gain hands-on experience with: inputting and analyzing data, creating simple tables, visualizing information, and reproducing a social science research paper using R. No advance preparation needed. 

Introduction to ArcGIS

Date & Time: 10/30/2024 @ 1:30pm - 3:00pm

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/IntroArcgisf24

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.

Data Visualization with R - Introduction to ggplot

Date & Time: 11/6/2024 @ 1:30pm-3:00pm

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/Rggplotf2024

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.

Working with Excel Functions

Date & Time: 11/14/2024 @ 1:00pm-2:00pm

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/ExcelFunctionsf2024

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.

Excel PivotTables

Date & Time: 11/21/2024 @ 1:00pm-2:00pm

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/PivotTablesf2024

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.

Qualitative Analysis with MAXQDA

Date & Time: 11/22/2024 @ 10:00pm - 11:30pm

Instructor: Rachel Brown-Weinstock, Sociology Department, Princeton University

Location: Stokes Viz Hub - Donald E. Stokes Library, Room 070

Reserve your spot: https://libcal.princeton.edu/calendar/events/qualmaxqdaf24

Description: This workshop will introduce students to qualitative data analysis using MAXQDA software. Students will learn how to import and organize their text data; develop and implement thematic “codes” to classify text segments and discover emergent patterns; and build their empirical “story” by writing analytic memos and synthesizing codes. We will also explore several tools in MAXQDA that help researchers “see” and chart patterns in their data.