Looking for that lightbulb moment? Library workshops are an excellent way to level up your research skills, and did we mention they’re free?? Whether you prefer to attend in-person or virtually, we have options that will work for everyone’s schedule. We also have a wide selection of pre-recorded workshops that can be viewed asynchronously at your convenience: mann.library.cornell.edu/workshops. Don’t see what you’re looking for? You can request a workshop by filling out our Workshop Request Form. This semester we’re excited to offer the Data Den, a new workshop series from our colleagues in Research Data and Open Scholarship (RDOS). See the list below or view all available library workshops at spaces.library.cornell.edu/calendar/CULworkshops
Data Den Workshop Series
Research Data and Open Scholarship is excited to be hosting the Data Den, a series of data skills workshops, this semester. Each workshop will introduce participants to a different tool or skill used for data collection, analysis, and sharing. All workshops are open to learners of all levels, with no prior experience required. Workshops will be offered hybrid (both in person and online) in Stone Classroom (Mann 103) unless otherwise specified. Find more information and register here: bit.ly/DataDen2025
- Web Scraping and API’s (Hybrid) Thursday, September 11, 2:00pm – 3:30pm
- Exploring Data with Excel (Hybrid) Thursday, September 25, 2:00pm – 3:30pm
- Processing Data with OpenRefine (In-person only) Thursday, October 2, 2:00pm – 3:30pm
- Processing Data with OpenRefine (Virtual only) Thursday, October 9, 2:00pm – 3:30pm
- Introduction to GitHub for Solo Projects (Hybrid) Thursday, October 16, 2:00pm – 3:30pm
- Introduction to GitHub for Collaborative Projects (Hybrid) Thursday, October 30, 2:00pm – 3:30pm
- Introduction to Data Visualization with Datawrapper (Hybrid) Thursday, November 6, 2:00pm – 3:30pm
- Establishing a Researcher Profile (Hybrid) Thursday, November 20, 2:00pm – 3:30pm
In addition to the data skills workshop series, there are several other workshops being offered this semester:
- CLI Basics: A Beginners Crash Course (In-person) Tuesday, September 23, 2:00 – 3:30pm
- CLI Basics: A Beginners Crash Course (Virtual) Tuesday, November 11, 2:00 – 3:30pm
- Intro to QGIS (In-person) Wednesday, October 1, 2:00 – 4:00pm