Apply now! The Data Science and Visualization Institute for Librarians is accepting applications from December 12, 2016 through January 27, 2017. Applicants will be notified of their acceptance status no later than February 17, 2017.
The Institute will be held April 24 - 28, 2017 at the James B. Hunt Jr. Library, North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina.
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The Data Science and Visualization Institute for Librarians is a week-long course providing the opportunity for librarians passionate about research and scholarship to immerse themselves in learning about data science and visualization in collaboration with academic peers. Participants will develop knowledge, skills, and confidence to communicate effectively with faculty and student researchers about their data and be able to provide initial consultancy on the course topics. Led by expert instructors, sessions will be interactive and will focus on mastery of core concepts, with hands-on exposure to select open source and highly used commercial tools. Sharing of practices and experiences across institutions will be encouraged.
The Institute will include topics such as:
Data Exploration and Statistical Analysis
Bibliometric Analysis
Data Visualization
Version Control with Git and GitHub
Data Description, Sharing, and Reuse
Data Cleaning and Preparation
Web Scraping
Analyzing Textual Data
Mapping and Geospatial Visualization
Publisher and Funder Data Use Agreements
The Data Science and Visualization Institute for Librarians is offered through a collaboration between the NCSU Libraries and the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI).