Data Carpentry develops and teaches workshops on the fundamental data skills needed to conduct research. Participants will be encouraged to help one another and to apply what they have learned to their own research problems. For more information on what we teach and why, please see our paper "Best Practices for Scientific Computing".
Data Carpentry develops and teaches workshops on the fundamental data skills needed to conduct research. Participants will be encouraged to help one another and to apply what they have learned to their own research problems. For more information on what we teach and why, please see our paper "Best Practices for Scientific Computing".
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“Coming out, going out, photographing, and being photographed were intertwined activities through which new forms of queerness and community became visible.” - excerpt from current TUAG exhibition description for As the World Burns: Queer Photography and Nightlife in Boston.
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An interactive session on elements and principles of poster design. Additionally, we'll be looking at different formats and the reasons you might chose one or the other, from the standard paper-on-a-page to emerging formats including visual abstracts that focus on networking or quickly spreading ideas. This session will focus on design strategies for scientific conference posters, but these strategies are applicable for other disciplines as well.
You have a presentation coming up. You’ve dusted up your talking points and rehearsed what you’re going to say. But you’re concerned about the visual aid for your presentation—does it look good? Will it convey your message? Maybe it’s a slide deck. Maybe it’s a poster. Maybe it’s a physical object, or writing on a whiteboard. Maybe you haven’t even decided if you’re going to have a visual aid at all.
Location: Africana Center
How we organize (or don’t) the various media we collect can help to either facilitate or obscure connection. In this workshop we’ll start by looking at Homosaurus, an international LGBTQ+ vocabulary to enhance discoverability of LGBTQ+ resources, as an example for making connections and worlds visible. We’ll introduce best practices for file management, then focus specifically on organizing images using two different applications (Tropy and Adobe Bridge) for researchers and photographers.
This workshop moves beyond the basics of Zotero. In this workshop you will learn to...