The Libraries welcomes you to celebrate Love Data Week from February 13-17, 2023! This provides the UAlbany community time to celebrate data and engage with this year’s theme, “Data: Agent of Change.”
We are pleased to be offering several workshops:
Research Data Management: Tools and Tips
Tuesday, February 14, 12:00-1:00
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
Wednesday, February 15, 12:00-1:00
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.
Predicting the Weather with Machine Learning
Wednesday, February 15, 2:00-3:00
In this Python workshop, we’ll be going over how to use a data set of recorded weather variables to help predict future climate conditions by making a machine learning model.
Introduction to Voyant Tools for Text Analysis
Thursday, February 16, 12:00-1:00
Voyant Tools is a free, web-based tool for analyzing and visualizing text. It can be used to analyze the frequency of words in a text, the context of text surrounding a keyword, keywords and terms that occur in close proximity, phrases, correlations, and more. Popular visualizations include word clouds, bubble lines, scatterplots, trend line graphs, and more.
Coffee Hour on Research Data Management: Data Use Agreements
We also encourage the UAlbany community to attend the Division for Research and Economic Development’s Coffee Hour on Research Data Management: Data Use Agreements on Thursday, February 16, 3:00-5:00.
Attendees will learn about the newly established process for obtaining approval and signatures for data use agreements, resources available for preparing a data management plan, and summary of secure systems available to store and process data.
As you think about the ways you can use data to bring about changes that matter to you, remember that the University’s Data Services Team is always available to provide support for finding, managing, analyzing, and sharing and preserving your research data. Get in touch!
We hope you will consider following the conversation about #LoveData23 we’ll be hosting @UAlbanyLibs and join us for one of our events!