Date & Time: 2/1/2023 @ 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/introrpolbnmsvhs23
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 seminal social science paper using R. No advance preparation needed. This workshop will be held in-person at Stokes Library E-classroom.
Date & Time: 2/3/2023 @ 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/rsentimentanalysiss2023
Description: All are welcome to attend this introductory-level workshop about conducting sentiment analysis in R. We will be analyzing the sentiment of published news articles over time. During this hands-on workshop attendees will learn the basics of detecting affective emotions in text, as well as relevant R packages and code to run the analysis on their own news data sources.
Date & Time: 2/7/2023 @ 2:00pm - 3:00pm
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/introdars2023
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 conduct a basic multiple linear regression in R using a policy-relevant data set. No advance preparation needed.
Date & Time: 2/10/2023 @ 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/introrpolcnks2023
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 seminal social science paper using R. No advance preparation needed.
Date & Time: 2/15/2023 @ 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/tableaus2023
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: 2/24/2023 @ 1:30pm - 3:00pm
Instructor: Katie Donnelly, Sociology Department, Princeton University
Location: Stokes Viz Hub - Donald E. Stokes Library, Room 070
Reserve your spot: https://libcal.princeton.edu/calendar/events/qualanalysiss2023
Description: This workshop offers an overview of qualitative research methods. It discusses the difference between qualitative and quantitative research, the different types of qualitative research (including ethnography, interviews, and archival research), and techniques for data collection and analysis. Specifically, it goes over methods and techniques for: operationalizing concepts of interest, sample selection, recruitment, gaining entree to field sites, interviewing participants, and transcribing and coding data. Students who attend the workshop will have the opportunity to practice some of these techniques in the session and ask methodological questions about their own research projects.
Date & Time: 3/3/2023 @ 1:30pm - 3:00pm
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/introstatas2023
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: 3/22/2023 @ 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/introarcgiss2023
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.
Date & Time: 3/24/2022 @ 2:00pm - 3:30pm
Instructor: Ofira Schwartz-Soicher, Social Sciences Data & Sociology Librarian, Stokes Library
Location: Stokes Viz Hub - Donald E. Stokes Library, Room 070
Reserve your spot: https://libcal.princeton.edu/calendar/events/rggplots2023
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: 3/27/2023 @ 1:00pm - 2:00pm
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/bibliometricrs2023
Description: Are you interested in using R to understand the literature of any field? All are welcome to attend this introductory-level workshop to learn how to use a state-of-the-art tool for bibliometric analysis within R Studio. Attendees will gain hands-on experience with: advanced searching in Scopus, finding the top journals and papers in any scientific domain, and visualizing scholarly networks of researchers and scientists.
Date & Time: 4/6/2023 @ 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/visualconnections2023
Description: All are invited to attend this in-person, hands-on workshop using library databases and VOSViewer 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.
