“Crafting with Data” explores data analysis and visualization from a data feminist perspective, examining methods for critical making and physicalization through arts and crafts. Data physicalizations create tangible, embodied representations of data, engaging both creators and audiences in the labor behind the data, its contents, and presentation.
Instructors: Kaylen Dwyer, Digital Humanities Librarian & Kylie Burnham, Digital Media Specialist
Are you interested in developing creative, alternative assignments for your classes? Whether you’re dreaming of a podcast, map, digital archive, exhibit, or multimodal publication, this workshop will walk through the basics of designing a digital project for your course. We will discuss a range of activities and projects, tools and technologies, how to match digital projects to your course objectives, scaffolding, and creative assessment.
Do you need research help? Stop by to meet with a librarian who can help with things such as:
There is no appointment needed! Drop in at any time.
Can’t make it to this drop-in date? More dates for the semester include:
Thursday, February 20th 2-4pm
Wednesday, February 26th 2-4pm
Friday, March 7th 3-5pm
Instructor: Peter Nadel, Natural Language Processing Specialist
Have you ever wanted to build a search engine for your own data? Whether it be archival material, personal notes or anything other kind of text, a search engine can give you the tools to do your work more efficiently. Join us in this workshop as we study the inner-workings of search engines and how we can use them for our own research.
No programming experience required. To follow along, you will need a laptop.
Instructors: Anna Kijas, Assistant Director, Digital Scholarship & Lilly Music Library; Kaylen Dwyer, Digital Humanities Librarian
Instructor: Kaylen Dwyer, Digital Humanities Librarian
If you need to transcribe handwritten documents such as letters or manuscripts so you can search, analyze, or publish them, we can help get you started. This workshop will provide a gentle introduction for automating the transcription process with Transkribus, a multilingual, customizable AI-powered text-recognition tool.
You will need a laptop. No programming experience required.
Douglass Day is an annual program that marks the birth of Frederick Douglass a leader in the American 19th century abolitonist movement. Join us in person on Friday, February 14, 2025 for a transcribe-a-thon to help create new & freely available resources for learning about Black history.
Do you need research help? Stop by to meet with a librarian who can help with things such as:
A writing consultant from the StAAR Center will also be present for writing support.
There is no appointment needed! Drop in at any time.
Snacks and beverages provided!
Can’t make it to this drop-in date? More dates for the semester include:
In this workshop you will learn the formatting fundamentals for submitting your thesis or dissertation to ProQuest. Additionally, you will learn about embargoes, open access options, and other relevant copyright considerations as they relate to theses/dissertations.
This workshop is part of the Graduate Workshop Series for an AS&E graduate student audience, but we invite all members of the Tufts community to join us at this workshop if you're interested!
Do you need research help? Stop by to meet with a librarian who can help with things such as:
There is no appointment needed! Drop in at any time.
Can’t make it to this drop-in date? More dates for the semester include:
Tuesday, February 11th 11am-1pm *
Thursday, February 20th 2-4pm