Date & Time: 2/5/2025 @ 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/ExcelFunctions2025
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: 2/6/2025 @ 1:00pm-2:00pm
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/Zoteros25a
Description: This workshop will cover the basics of Zotero, including:
Date & Time: 2/12/2025 @ 1:30pm-2:30pm
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/PivotTables25
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: 2/13/2025 @ 1:00pm-2:00pm
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/Zoteros25b
Description: This workshop will cover the basics of Zotero, including:
Date & Time: 2/19/2025 @ 1:00pm-2:30pm
Instructors: Ameet Doshi, Head Stokes Library
Location: Stokes Viz Hub - Donald E. Stokes Library, Room 070
Reserve your spot: https://libcal.princeton.edu/calendar/events/IntroRs25a
Description: All are welcome to attend this introductory-level workshop on how to analyze social science survey data from Roper iPoll using R. Attendees will learn the basics of inputting and cleaning data, running summary statistics, and running a simple analysis. No prior experience is needed.
Date & Time: 2/26/2025 @ 10:00am-11:30am
Instructors: Ameet Doshi, Head Stokes Library
Location: Stokes Viz Hub - Donald E. Stokes Library, Room 070
Reserve your spot: https://libcal.princeton.edu/calendar/events/IntroRs25b
Description: All are welcome to attend this introductory-level workshop on how to analyze social science survey data from Roper iPoll using R. Attendees will learn the basics of inputting and cleaning data, running summary statistics, and running a simple analysis. No prior experience is needed.
Date & Time: 2/27/2024 @ 1:00pm-2:00pm
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/AdvancedZoteros25
Description: This workshop will cover more advanced Zotero topics, including:
The session will end with an ask-me-anything, allowing attendees to explore more targeted topics, such as integrating Zotero into software like LaTex. Please send requests to cover specific software to Brittany Norwood (bn3929@princeton.edu) ahead of the session.
Date & Time: 2/28/2025 @ 10:30am-12:00pm
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/MaxQDAs25
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.
Date & Time: 2/28/2025 @ 2:00Pm-3:30pm
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/Rggplots25
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: 3/24/2025 @ 10:00am-11:00am
Instructors: Ameet Doshi, Head Stokes Library
Location: Stokes Viz Hub - Donald E. Stokes Library, Room 070
Reserve your spot: https://libcal.princeton.edu/calendar/events/VOSViewers25
Description: All are invited to attend this in-person, hands-on workshop using library databases and VOS Viewer software to create informative and 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: 3/27/2025 @ 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/IntroArcgiss25
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.