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Installing Zotero

This video goes over installing the Zotero application and the Zotero Connector for the first time.

Data Management 101 Workshop

This workshop will teach the foundational principles of good research data management. If you struggle with file naming, understanding your files after time has passed, or planning your research process, this session is for you! Learners will be able to diagram a data lifecycle of their research process, learn how to develop a file naming process, and learn how to construct documentation for their research. This session is suited for graduate students and faculty conducting research, though…

Analyzing and Visualizing Text with Constellate and TDM Studio

Interested in working with large volumes of published content from news, scholarly and other publications? Constellate and ProQuest TDM Studio are library services that allow researchers to mine data from a variety of sources and start visualizing, analyzing, and exporting data right away. In this workshop, we'll compare these two platforms, perform searches, and learn about text mining more generally.

Writing a Data Management Plan Workshop Recording

This workshop teaches researchers how to approach writing a data management plan (DMP). After this session, learners will understand the basic requirements of a DMP, understand how to utilize DMPTool to streamline their DMP writing, and recognize on campus data management support.The main audience for this session is researchers who are writing a DMP for a grant proposal, but those who are interested in writing a DMP for project management purposes, such as for lab or team environments, and not…

NVivo Short Introduction

This is the brief workshop on NVivo from the Earth Week Data Jam.

Aman Kaur, Librarian for Community Health and Engineering

Workshop on the Qualitative Data Repository

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries recently became an institutional member of the Qualitative Data Repository, a dedicated repository for storing and sharing qualitative and multi-method data. Our institutional membership supports the curation and preservation of 20 data projects deposited by Penn faculty, students, and research staff. In addition to providing support for data deposit, QDR provides expert guidance on informed consent, writing data management plans for qualitative data,…

Data Wrangling with Open Refine

Wrangling your data with various tools allows you to restructure information so that it can be easily understood by people and analyzed by machines. Want to efficiently clean your data? In this week's workshop, we'll work in OpenRefine, a powerful tool for working with data. Learn about tidying your data, transforming it from one format to another, and extending it with various web services. This workshop is part of the (Open) Data Jam hosted by the Libraries' Research Data and…