This workshop consists of two sessions focusing on the fundamentals of programming in Python. This course is intended for absolute beginners or anyone wanting to review the basics. This series lays the foundation for attendees to understand Python code and begin writing scripts that apply to their work.
Events Calendar
Jan
19
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Join us for this three-part virtual workshop series. This workshop covers Excel skills such as handling dates as data, basic quality control, data manipulation in spreadsheets and exporting data from spreadsheets.
Jan
19
1:00pm to 3:00pm
Please join the UO Libraries in this 3 part workshop series on getting familiarized with WordPress! There is no previous experience needed, and the University of Oregon even hosts your WordPress site for you. We’ll be exploring how to use WordPress together via UO Blogs. This remote workshop will introduce learners to digital humanities projects built with WordPress, identifying different elements of WordPress websites, setting up a WordPress website using UO Blogs, and making WordPress pages and menus.
Jan
21
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Join us for this virtual workshop! If you have been looking at any of the Covid-19 data from Lane County, Oregon over the last year, you might have noticed that it is all done use the statistical graphing software Tableau. Given its ease of use, we are offering an introductory workshop that will guide users on how obtain and load Tableau, graph data sets from Excel, and add error bars for statistical inference.
Jan
22
12:00pm to 1:30pm
Have you been curious about R but hesitatant to dive in? Would you like to develop reproducible code for processing, cleaning, and visualizing your data? Join us for a 60-minute introductory workshop about data table manipulation in R Studio using the tidyr package. Tidyr is part of the tidyverse, a coherent system of packages for data manipulation, exploration, and visualization that share common design philosophy. Tidyr provides a set of functions that help you structure data in ways that will make it easier to analyze and visualize. Part 3 of a 6 part workshop series, Master the Tidyverse.
Jan
25
12:00pm to 1:30pm
This workshop consists of two sessions focusing on the fundamentals of programming in Python. This course is intended for absolute beginners or anyone wanting to review the basics. This series lays the foundation for attendees to understand Python code and begin writing scripts that apply to their work.
Jan
26
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Join us for this three-part virtual workshop series. This workshiop covers Excel skills in visualization such as basic charts, combo charts, the best practices in building data visualizations and a preview of PivotTables and PivotCharts.
Jan
26
1:00pm to 3:00pm
Please join the UO Libraries in this 3 part workshop series on getting familiarized with WordPress! There is no previous experience needed, and the University of Oregon even hosts your WordPress site for you. We’ll be exploring how to use WordPress together via UO Blogs. This remote workshop will introduce learners to adding text and images to pages and posts, embedding video and documents, and basic accessibility considerations (using of headings, alt tags, colors, contrast, and type size).
Jan
28
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Join us for this virtual workshop! If you have been looking at any of the Covid-19 data from Lane County, Oregon over the last year, you might have noticed that it is all done use the statistical graphing software Tableau. Given its ease of use, we are offering an introductory workshop that will guide users on how obtain and load Tableau, graph data sets from Excel, and add error bars for statistical inference.
Jan
29
12:00pm to 1:30pm
Have you been curious about R but hesitant to dive in? Would you like to develop reproducible code for processing, cleaning, and visualizing your data? Join us for a 60-minute introductory workshop about reading data into RStudio using the readr package. Readr is part of the tidyverse, a coherent system of packages for data manipulation, exploration, and visualization that share common design philosophy. The goal of readr is to provide a fast and friendly way to read rectangular data (like CSV, tsv, and fwf). It is designed to flexibly parse many types of data found in the wild while still...
Feb
1
12:00pm to 1:30pm
This two-part workshop series introduces and demonstrates packages commonly used in data science, including NumPy, pandas, and matplotlib. This series will also expand on the basic concepts from the workshop series Introduction to Python.
Feb
2
12:00pm to 1:30pm
Join us for this virtual workshop! Qualtrics is a popular and powerful tool used for conducting web-based surveys and data collection. This workshop will introduce the basic guidelines of online data collection, set up a project in qualitrcs, and what to do with the data you collect. Participants will learn how to set up a survey in qualitrcs, the various question types available, share and collaborate on survey projects, and the options available for exporting the data.
Feb
2
1:00pm to 3:00pm
Please join the UO Libraries in this 3 part workshop series on getting familiarized with WordPress! There is no previous experience needed, and the University of Oregon even hosts your WordPress site for you. We’ll be exploring how to use WordPress together via UO Blogs. This remote workshop will introduce learners to customizing the website theme (changing layout, using footer, widgets, and buttons) and using drag and drop page builder for additional flexibility and versatility.
Feb
5
12:00pm to 1:30pm
Have you been curious about R but hesitant to dive in? Would you like to develop reproducible code for processing, cleaning, and visualizing your data? Join us for a 60-minute introductory workshop about data manipulation in RStudio using the dplyr package. Dplyr is part of the tidyverse, a coherent system of packages for data manipulation, exploration, and visualization that share common design philosophy. Dplyr is a grammar of data manipulation, providing a consistent set of verbs that help solve the most common data manipulation challenges. Part 5 of a 6 part workshop series, Master the...
Feb
8
12:00pm to 1:30pm
This two-part workshop series introduces and demonstrates packages commonly used in data science, including NumPy, pandas, and matplotlib. This series will also expand on the basic concepts from the workshop series Introduction to Python.
Feb
9
12:00pm to 1:30pm
Join us for this virtual workshop! Part 2 of our introduction to Qualtrics series will review more advanced topics such as custom survey flow and logic, data analysis in Qualtricsrics, custom reports, and integration with R. You do not need to have attended part 1 but should be familiar with Qualtrics already.
Feb
11
12:00pm to 1:00pm
This just-beyond-intro class will cover how to load GPS data points in R, display them by latitude and longitude, and generate a heatmap of clustered data points. Students should already have R and R-studio loaded onto their machines. We will cover the rest.
Feb
12
12:00pm to 1:30pm
Have you been curious about R but hesitatant to dive in? Would you like to develop reproducible code for processing, cleaning, and visualizing your data? Join us for a 60-minute introductory workshop about data manipulation in RStudio using the dplyr package. Dplyr is part of the tidyverse, a coherent system of packages for data manipulation, exploration and visualization that share a common design philosophy. Dplyr is a grammar of data manipulation, providing a consistent set of verbs that help solve the most common data manipulation challenges. Part 6 of a 6 part workshop series, Master the...
Feb
18
12:00pm to 1:00pm
This just-beyond-intro class will cover how to load GPS data points in R, display them by latitude and longitude, and generate a heatmap of clustered data points. Students should already have R and R-studio loaded onto their machines. We will cover the rest.
Feb
25
12:00pm to 1:00pm
This just-beyond-intro class will cover how to load GPS data points in R, display them by latitude and longitude, and generate a heatmap of clustered data points. Students should already have R and R-studio loaded onto their machines. We will cover the rest.
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Current Exhibits
Yōkai Senjafuda is a digital exhibition about ghosts and monsters in Japanese votive slips. Meet the ogres, demons, enchanted animals, and animated objects that haunt the UO’s world-class collection of senjafuda, little woodblock prints made to be collected and shared. Yōkai Senjafuda is led by Associate Professor Glynne Walley and co-sponsored by the JSMA and UO Libraries, with generous support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
From imperial robes and religious vestments to interior furnishings, this digital exhibition invites you to explore Chinese textiles from the collection of Gertrude Bass Warner, a unique treasure housed at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art. The Artful Fabric of Collecting is led by Associate Professor Ina Asim and co-sponsored by the JSMA and UO Libraries, with generous support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
UO Libraries Special Collections and University Archives presents a new Spotlight exhibit, Remarkable Works by Women Authors, of which trailblazing women are the key center point. Explore milestone works by women authors from the 17th century to the 20th century, exemplary of both literary genius and the steadfast commitment to social evolution.
The Eugene Lesbian History Project is a community-based, digital humanities project that preserves and shares the unique history of the lesbian community in Eugene, Oregon. The project includes filmed oral histories with 83 narrators, a digital exhibit, and a short documentary film.
This exhibit celebrates the centennial of the passage of that federal amendment while also highlighting the history of woman suffrage in Oregon. It examines the contributions of Abigail Scott Duniway and her contemporaries, including many women of color in the suffrage movement.
The digital exhibition The March is the result of a collaborative project led by David A. Frank (Professor of Rhetoric and Mellon Faculty Fellow), the University of Oregon Libraries, and the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, with individual contributions by members of both institutions (see below). This exhibition received inspiration and support from The James Blue Project, a research interest group at the University of Oregon devoted to creating a “living archive” from materials relating to the James Blue papers in UO Libraries’ Special Collections and University Archives.
Experience the story of the color red situated within global perspectives that tell stories about objects from UO Libraries, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, and UO Museum of Natural and Cultural History. Red Thread is a digital guide created by Vera Keller, associate professor of history, through the Digital Scholarship Center Faculty Grants Program.
Tekagami and Kyōgire is a digital exhibition featuring the collection of fragmented calligraphy at the University of Oregon. Follow Japanese calligraphy from the 8th to the 17th century in the tekagami, or “mirror of hands,” and its stunning display of virtuosity. Examine and celebrate this album of cultural reflection and innovation and its history as one of the treasures in the UO collections. Tekagami and Kyōgire is the result of a collaboration between UO Libraries and the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, with generous support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Madness Outside In is a digital project that helps tell the story of Morningside Hospital in Portland during the 1950s and 60s and how tensions over psychiatry and evolving treatment for mental distress overlap with tensions about statehood, governance, expansion, land use, and the meanings of citizenship. Led by Professor Mary Wood, Department of English, and Professor Kristin Yarris, Department of Global Studies, the Madness Outside In curriculum is the result of a collaboration between UO Libraries and the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, with generous support from The Andrew W. Mellon...
United Collections explores the similarities and differences between how museums and archives approach building, accessing, preserving, and digitizing collections using examples from the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art and Special Collections and University Archives. The United Collections curriculum is the result of a collaboration between UO Libraries and the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, with generous support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.