Past Events

  • 2023 Dec 13

    Data Cleaning with OpenRefine

    10:00am to 11:30am

    Location: 

    Countway Library

    Fall 2023 Research Data Management Seminar Series

    A part of the data workflow is preparing the data for analysis. Some of this involves data cleaning, where errors in the data are identified and corrected or formatting made consistent. This step must be taken with the same care and attention to reproducibility as the analysis.

    OpenRefine is a powerful free, open-source tool with a graphical user interface (GUI) to clean and organize data – no coding required! Many people comment that this tool saves them literally months of work trying to make...

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  • 2023 Dec 12

    Data Management Virtual Office Hours

    12:00pm to 1:00pm

    Location: 

    Online Via Zoom

    Drop in any time during the hour to ask your data management questions!

    Countway's Data Services Librarian will be ready to support you.

    Get help with:

    • Data Management Plans -- including writing NIH Data Management and Sharing Plans
    • Data organization strategies -- get help with your file and folder names
    • Data standards -- what IS metadata?
    • Data tools -- get started with protocols.io or Electronic Lab Notebooks
    • Data repository support -- including Harvard Dataverse and Open Science...
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  • 2023 Dec 06

    Keeping Data Safe & Secure

    12:00pm to 1:00pm

    Location: 

    Online Via Zoom

    Fall 2023 Research Data Management Seminar Series

    Research involves increasingly complex arrangements for the storage and transmission of research data. Data privacy and security planning are necessary to protect research subjects and to safeguard sensitive, personally identifiable information. You must keep in mind the formats your data are stored in, the devices and locations in which they are stored, as well as methods for keeping your data secure.

    During this online seminar, we will discuss Harvard data classification levels, ...

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  • 2023 Nov 21

    Data Management Virtual Office Hours

    12:00pm to 1:00pm

    Location: 

    Online Via Zoom

    Drop in any time during the hour to ask your data management questions!

    Countway's Data Services Librarian will be ready to support you.

    Get help with:

    •  Data Management Plans -- including writing NIH Data Management and Sharing Plans
    •  Data organization strategies -- get help with your file and folder names
    •  Data standards -- what IS metadata?
    •  Data tools -- get started with protocols.io or Electronic Lab Notebooks
    •  Data repository support -- including Harvard...
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  • 2023 Nov 15

    Securely Managing and Publishing Sensitive Data

    12:00pm to 1:00pm

    Location: 

    Online Via Zoom

    Fall 2023 Research Data Management Seminar Series

    Many funding agencies and publishers require researchers to publicly share data from their completed projects. If your research involves human participants, this requirement can be challenging. How do you manage and protect sensitive data? Can you responsibly share your data while protecting the rights of your research participants?

    This webinar will review utilizing the repository Dataverse for appropriate data sharing. We will demonstrate how the deposit process works and provide ...

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  • 2023 Nov 14

    Preparing for Qualitative Data Analysis

    11:00am to 12:00pm

    Location: 

    Online

    Digging into data analysis can be intimidating. There are key decisions to make: whether or not to use data analysis software, how to navigate the myriad of methodological and theoretical approaches, etc. There are best practices to consider: how to maintain alignment or realign your process in the context of relevant literature that informs your study. If you're new to coding data, creating a codebook, querying, visualizing, and themeing your data, or simply want to compare notes with other qualitative researchers, please join us. You will discover how specific library collections,...

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  • 2023 Nov 07

    Writing a Data Management Plan with DMPTool: Tools, Tips, and Tricks

    10:00am to 11:30am

    Location: 

    Countway Library

    Fall 2023 Research Data Management Seminar Series

    A 2-page Data Management Plan (DMP) will be required as part of the new NIH Data Management & Sharing Policy. The Plan will set you up for long-term research success.

    This hands-on workshop will run through the components of a good data management plan and introduce the DMPTool, an online (and Harvard-customized) tool for crafting funder-specific data management plans. Please bring your own laptop if available!

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  • 2023 Nov 03

    Text Analysis in R with Quanteda

    9:00am to 12:00pm

    Location: 

    Lamont Library

    Are you interested in using natural language processing or text analysis in your research? R is one of the most recommended languages for TA/NLP, partly because of an ecosystem of libraries designed to tackle common tasks such as corpus creation, cleaning and preprocessing, modeling, analysis, presenting, and exporting. In this workshop, we will compare some of these options (tm and tidytext for R, NLTK and Spacy for Python, etc.) before...

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