Our physical space will remain closed to the public as we re-imagine
how to best make use of our physical space on the 3rd floor of the social sciences building.
Soon we will have regular consulting drop-in hours at our virtual frontdesk.
In the meantime, our consultants are now available by appointment
which can be scheduled once you submit a consulting request.
- Blog Post -
Understanding how organizational structures interact with psychology to influence academic-related behavior by Michael Ruiz
The ways in which educational organizations develop programs, approach pedagogy, and emphasize community building result in similarities and differences across different organizations’ structures. However, past research hasn’t developed a conceptual framework for understanding how differences in organizational structures might influence the educational outcomes of students from different backgrounds. The D-Lab NSF IUSE (Improving Undergraduate STEM Education) team sought to develop such a framework by leveraging past research from the fields of education, history, psychology, and sociology.
Publish Digital Books &
Open Educational Resources with Pressbooks
Sep 14 | 11am-12:30pm | Register for Zoom link
If you're looking to self-publish work of any length and want an easy-to-use tool that offers a high degree of customization, allows flexibility with publishing formats (EPUB, PDF), and provides web-hosting options, Pressbooks may be great for you. Pressbooks is often the tool of choice for academics creating digital books, open textbooks, and open educational resources, since you can license your materials for reuse however you desire. Learn why and how to use Pressbooks for publishing your original books or course materials. You'll leave the workshop with a project already under way!
Interested in digital mapping and GIS (geographic information science), but not sure where to start? Have some experience, but want to learn more about what the campus has to offer? This virtual workshop is for you! We'll provide an overview of the GIS and digital mapping landscape as a whole, including: which tools are out there and how to choose the right one for your needs; common terms used in the field; resources for learning how to get started mapping; and where to go to find data to create your first project.
No experience or special software is required to participate in this workshop.
This two-part workshop will introduce methods for working with geospatial data in QGIS, a popular open-source desktop GIS program that runs on both PCs and Macs as well as linux computers. Participants will learn how to load, query and visualize point, line and polygon data. We will also introduce basic methods for processing spatial data, which are the building blocks of spatial analysis workflows. Coordinate reference systems and map projections will also be introduced.
It is said that 80% of data analysis is spent on the process of cleaning and preparing the data for exploration, visualization, and analysis. This R workshop will introduce the dplyr and tidyr packages to make data wrangling and manipulation easier. Participants will learn how to use these packages to subset and reshape data sets, do calculations across groups of data, clean data, and other useful tasks.
Python Data Wrangling and Manipulation with Pandas
Sep 20 | 1pm-4pm | Register for Zoom link
Pandas is a Python package that provides fast, flexible, and expressive data structures designed to make working with 'relational' or 'labeled' data both easy and intuitive. It enables doing practical, real world data analysis in Python. In this workshop, we'll work with example data and go through the various steps you might need to prepare data for analysis.
Python Text Analysis Fundamentals: Parts 1-3
Sep 21, 23, 28 | 10am-1pm | Register for Zoom link
This three-part workshop series will prepare participants to move forward with research that uses text analysis, with a special focus on humanities and social science applications.
Qualtrics is a powerful online tool available to Berkeley community members that can be used for a range of data collection activities. Primarily, Qualtrics is designed to make web surveys easy to write, test, and implement, but the software can be used for data entry, training, quality control, evaluation, market research, pre/post-event feedback, and other uses with some creativity.
Keep an eye on our events calendar for many more new workshops!
The New Media Working Group presents Refamiliarization, a week-long show of artworks at Platform Artspace that speculate on practices and technologies that interrupt the habituation compelled by COVID-era domestic data extraction and quotidian mediations.
A century ago, Viktor Shklovsky introduced the concept of “defamiliarization” to describe art’s revolutionary potential. Facing a world beset by habituation, automatism, and alienation, he proclaims that art “exists so that one may recover the sensation of life.”.... Refamiliarization brings together works of art — from performances and installations to videos and sculptures — that speculate on and give form to new versions of what could be “familiar.”
- Other Campus Opportunities -
STEP Program Coordinator Hiring
Student Affairs IT/Student Technologies is hiring for an Administrative Officer 2 to serve as our STEP Program Coordinator through the end of June 2022.
The AO2 position provides an exciting opportunity to work closely with students, contribute to technology equity efforts, and build their professional experience in a supportive workplace. Responsibilities include managing the day-to-day operations of the Student Technology Equity Program, communicating with student applicants, supervising a team of student employees, and partnering with campus departments to ensure that high-need students receive critical technology support.
This is a 9-month contract appointment with possibility of renewal. Apply at jobs.berkeley.edu (job ID 23486); first review date is 9/16/21. For questions, contact Cristóbal Olivares (cmo@berkeley.edu).
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