The Libraries welcome you to celebrate Love Data Week from February 14-18, 2022! This provides the UAlbany community time to celebrate data and engage with this year’s theme, “Data is for everyone.”
In addition to highlighting the Libraries' Data Services, we are pleased to be offering several workshops throughout the week. Consider adding as many to your calendar as your schedule permits!
Research Data Management: Tools and Tips
Wednesday, February 16, 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
For every research project there are associated data.
Whether you are working with images, text corpora, numerical measurements, or survey results, your research can benefit from sound research data management practices and plans. Documenting how you will manage, describe, and analyze your data, as well as how you plan to share and preserve it benefits you, your research, and the larger scholarly enterprise.
If you’re required to submit a data management plan (DMP) to a funder, or you’re looking to better manage your data and aren’t sure where to start or what to include, then this session is for you.
Introduction to Tableau for Data Visualizations
Thursday, February 17, 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
No experience required. Tableau Public is the free version of Tableau, a user-friendly data analytics and visualization program. If you're looking for a way to visualize data without learning to program, Tableau may be right for you! We'll start with the basics of importing data, making basic charts, maps, dashboards, and more.
Data Cleaning and Management Using Python
Friday, February 18, 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
No experience required! We'll go over the basic principles of Python and work through some ways to clean and manage data, ending with a visualization. Personal laptop required. Please install python ahead of time, we'll send a python installation guide along with a reminder of the upcoming session.