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Tisch College’s 1+4 Bridge-Year Program provides incoming Tufts students the opportunity to participate in a year of full-time service prior to beginning their academic studies at Tufts. These photographs capture the experience of our 2018-19 Tufts 1+4 Fellows as they immersed in communities in... more
Tisch has a new online exhibit highlighting 18th and 19th century New England almanacs from our Special Collections. The almanacs are a great source of historical information about weather, tides, astronomical occurrences... more
On January 1 of this year, works of art, literature, music, film, and more fell into the public domain in the United States for the first time since 1998. Works in the public domain are no longer copyrighted... more
Learn about new web-based tools that help make attractive posters!
Wouldn’t it be great if ArcMap was less expensive, open source, and more versatile? Never fear, QGIS is here!... More about An Introduction to GIS in QGIS
Want to download lots of info from a website, but copy and paste won’t cut it? This workshop will teach you the basics of web scraping, or extracting text from a website with the programming... More about Web Scraping with Python
In this workshop you will learn audio editing tools and strategies to build a short project. We will use GarageBand but skills are translatable to software such as Audition and ProTools. We will... More about Making Meaning: Sound Editing Basics
Are you planning to incorporate images, text, data, or other material created by someone else into a project, and wondering what’s allowed? Are you interested in learning more about your rights to... More about Can I Use This Stuff? Rights & Licensing for Digital Projects
GPS is changing the way users collect and manage geographic data. From handheld units to smart phones, GPS units make it extremely convenient to record locations in the field while simultaneously... More about Field Data Collection using GPS Handheld Units
Charts, graphs, maps, and infographics are a great way to communicate research, but not all visualizations are created equal. In this workshop we will talk about the ways that you can create... More about Data Visualization & Tableau
This workshop is a breif introduction of the structure of the Tufts HPC cluster, as well as the basic usage of it's scheduler "SLURM".
**Required** This is a hands-on workshop and we will... More about Introduction To Tufts HPC Cluster Workshop
Just when you finally get ArcMap down, they develop a new platform for ArcGIS! A new ribbon based and map centric product, ArcGIS Pro has all the tools you’ve come to know and love, plus it’s... More about ArcGIS Pro: The New & Improved ArcMap
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In conjunction with the Pittsburgh Supercomputer Center (PSC), Tufts is offering a two day OpenMP workshop. This workshop is intended to give C and Fortran... More about XSEDE Workshop: Multicore Programming in C & Fortran Using OpenMP
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In conjunction with the Pittsburgh Supercomputer Center (PSC), Tufts is offering a two day OpenMP workshop. This workshop is intended to give C and Fortran... More about XSEDE Workshop: Multicore Programming in C & Fortran Using OpenMP
Twitter data is all the rage when it comes to cutting edge social science research. But getting it and using can be a little tricky. You will come out of this workshop with a good grasp of the... More about Accessing & Using Twitter Data
Charts, graphs, maps, and infographics are a great way to communicate research, but not all visualizations are created equal. In this workshop we will talk about the ways that you can create... More about Data Visualization & Tableau
Data is an essential part of your research, but keeping track of it can be tricky and data management plans are an increasingly important component of project planning. In this workshop we will... More about Research Data Management
This is a hands-on workshop designed to get you started analyzing data using Python and Jupyter Notebooks. We will provide a whirlwind overview of what Python is (and isn't) and why you might want... More about An Intro to Python for Data Analysis
You will be guided through several methods for automatically assessing the positive or negative sentiment in a piece of text. The methods will range from simple binary classification based on a “... More about Sentiment Analysis with Python
Information and Registration is available at: https://tufts-carpentries.github.io/2019-11-15-tufts/.... More about Software Carpentry – Tufts Medford Campus
Information and Registration is available at: https://tufts-carpentries.github.io/2019-11-15-tufts/.... More about Software Carpentry – Tufts Medford Campus
Information and Registration is available at: https://tufts-carpentries.github.io/2019-11-15-tufts/.... More about Software Carpentry – Tufts Medford Campus
Learn to systematically organize, code, and interpret qualitative data – data that is words, images, texts, video and more - using NVivo
Sick of using only PowerPoint to make presentations?... More about Story Maps: Not Your Average Presentation
Information and Registration is available at: https://tufts-carpentries.github.io/2019-11-15-tufts/.... More about Software Carpentry – Tufts Medford Campus
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In conjunction with the Pittsburgh Supercomputer Center (PSC), Tufts is offering a two day Big Data workshop. This workshop will focus on... More about XSEDE Workshop: Big Data Using Python and Spark
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In conjunction with the Pittsburgh Supercomputer Center (PSC), Tufts is offering a two day Big Data workshop. This workshop will focus on... More about XSEDE Workshop: Big Data Using Python and Spark
This course will cover some examples of using the Tufts High Performance Compute Cluster (HPC) to manipulate Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) data. Tufts HPC hosts many different tools and... More about Intro to Bioinformatics for NGS Data Using Tufts Compute Cluster
Ready to de-stress take your mind off studying for finals?! Unwind and lift your spirits as some adorable therapy animals will be visiting the library on Friday, December 6th from 3PM - 5PM in... More about Pause for Paws: Therapy Animals Visit Tisch Library!