Clark Library Workshops on Data Visualization, Network Analysis, and GIS this semester

Subject: Workshops on Data Visualization, Network Analysis and GIS

 

The Clark Library* is offering workshops on GIS, Excel, and data visualization this term.

 

*The Clark Library for Maps, Government Information and Spatial and Numeric Data Services (SAND, including SAND North).

 

Find and register for a workshop at http://www.lib.umich.edu/clark-library/services/classes-workshops .

These workshops are free and open to anyone on campus. As always, consultations on data visualization, finding data, and using software are available, including topics not covered in workshops this term, such as finding and using Census data, and more advanced features of ArcGIS. See http://lib.umich.edu/clark-library for contact information or to make an appointment!

 

Workshops for winter 2014:

Cytoscape for Social Science and Humanities, Fri, 3/28, 10:00 am-12:00 pm
Data Visualization Strategies with R, Thu, 4/3, 2:00 pm-3:30 pm
Intro GIS with ArcGIS for Desktop, Tue, 3/25, 4:00 pm-5:30 pm and Wed, 4/9, 10:00 am-11:30 am
Mapping Strategies for Complex Data, Tue, 4/1, 2:00 pm-3:30 pm
GIS Learning Roadmap Workshop, Wed, 4/23, 1:00 pm-3:00 pm

The Data Infrastructures of Thinking and Making

Jamie Allen, artist and Head of Research at CIID (the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design), discusses the relationship between technology, data, truth and representation. His projects deal with the material of media and its infrastructure (http://heavyside.net).

Abstract:
Technologies which manipulate data compose a new media, a new technical image, that is no longer a photograph of some presumed real, but an infinitely inferential and interpretable rendering of supposedly "raw knowledge" from a highly distributed network of spinning platters of silicon. As spheres of representation expand to include the psychic and biological interiorities of our lives, we increasingly see ourselves reflected in this data, not even as others see us, but as machines of collection and interpretation do. Claims of beauty and truth telling that the data body bring forth are not new: these are always the claims made by the apostles of any new media. There is not more truth in data than there is elsewhere, only newly warped reflections. As we examine the data from the mount on our new digital tablets, we are best to ask how this data reflects, rather that what new truth it holds.

MLibrary Emergent Research events are aimed at better understanding the various types of research undertaken across campus, particularly as they relate to library services and support, opportunities for collaboration, data management and preservation, and beyond.

 

Event Details

Date & Time:

August 9, 2013 - 1:00pm to 2:30pm

Location:Gallery, Hatcher Graduate Library

Workshops on Data Visualization, GIS

The Clark Library is offering workshops on data visualization with R or Cytoscape and mapping with GIS software this term.

The Clark Library is a new library combining the Map Collection, the Government Information Collection, and Spatial and Numeric Data Services (SAND, including SAND North).

Find and register for a workshop at http://www.lib.umich.edu/clark-library/services/classes-workshops.

These workshops are free and open to anyone on campus. As always, consultations on finding data and using software are available, including topics not covered in workshops this term, such as finding and using Census data, and more advanced features of ArcGIS. See http://lib.umich.edu/clark-library for more information or email clarklibrary@umich.edu to make an appointment!

Workshop titles for winter 2013:

Data Visualization Strategies with R
Mapping Strategies for Complex Data
Intro to GIS
Cytoscape for Network Analysis and Visualization

MLibrary Emergent Research Series - Starts Monday Jan.28th

Please join us for the first event in the MLibrary Emergent Research Series on Monday, January 28, from 10:00am-11:30am in the Hatcher Gallery.
Our first speaker will be Professor Finn Brunton from the School of Information, with a talk titled, "The Accidental Archive: Or, Researching criminals, otherkin, cipher anarchists, spammers and the online history that doesn't want to be kept."

Professor Brunton engages in a wide range of inquiry that includes: the digital humanities, the history of technology, STS, "dead media", Internet culture, and network politics. Professor Brunton will respond to a series of prepared questions related to his research process(es), followed by Q & A from the audience. Light refreshments will be served.

We look forward to learning with you!

The Clark Library is offering workshops on GIS, Excel, and data visualization

The Clark Library is a new library combining the Government Information and Map Collections and Spatial and Numeric Data Services (SAND, including SAND North).

Find and register for a workshop at http://www.lib.umich.edu/clark-library/services/classes-workshops.

These workshops are free and open to anyone on campus. As always, consultations on finding data and using software are available, including topics not covered in workshops this term, such as finding and using Census data, and more advanced features of ArcGIS. See http://lib.umich.edu/clark-library for contact information or to make an appointment!

Workshop titles for fall 2012:

Intro to GIS
Data Visualization Strategies
Mapping Strategies for Complex Data
Excel: Beyond the Basics