Celebrate Love Data Week!

Love Data Week is an international event celebrating and engaging with important issues in data collection, sharing, reuse, and preservation. Each year during the week of Valentine's Day, institutions worldwide host data-related events sharing news and events on social media. Love Data Week 2023 takes place from February 13 to 17, and the social media hashtag is #LoveData23. In celebration of the event, Rutgers–New Brunswick Libraries is offering various coding, GIS, and data management workshops (see schedule below).

This year's Love Data Week theme is Data: Agent of Change. In the hope of inspiring you to use data for positive change, the Libraries assembled a list of sources with datasets that have been collected on social justice issues and marginalized groups (the list is not comprehensive but may be useful in thinking about data for change). Please view the list on Speaking of STEM's blog at this link.

Register for our Love Data Week workshops today!

Introduction to Creating Relational Databases and SQL
Tuesday, February 14, 12:00–1:00 p.m.
This workshop will introduce the relational database as an alternative to spreadsheets. We will use the self-contained SQLite database engine, practicing with both an easy-to-use graphical user interface (GUI) and exploring the corresponding SQL commands.
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R for Data Analysis: A tidyverse Approach
Wednesday, February 15, 2:30–5:00 p.m., in person in Alexander Library's JetStream (Room 404)
Join us for an in-person, hands-on version of this introduction to R statistical software focusing on the "tidyverse" set of packages. We will cover R basics, data analysis, data visualization, and data manipulation in a 3-hour session.
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NIH Data Management and Sharing Plans and Data Repositories
Thursday, February 16, 12:00–1:00 p.m.
In this one-hour session, we will hear from Rutgers Research and Sponsored Programs about the new National Institutes of Health (NIH) data management and sharing policy, review the plan elements and data repositories, and provide a brief demonstration of DMPTool for writing data management plans that can be used in your grant proposals.
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R for Interactivity: An Introduction to Shiny
Thursday, February 16, 3:00–4:30 p.m.
Shiny is an R package that enables the creation of interactive websites for data visualization. This session provides a brief overview of the Shiny framework and how to edit and publish Shiny sites in RStudio (with shinyapps.io).
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Geospatial Data in the BTAA Geoportal
Friday, February 17, 12:00–1:00 p.m.
The Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA) Geoportal is a discovery tool that connects scholars to regional geospatial resources, including GIS datasets, web services, and digitized historical maps. Rutgers is a member of the BTAA Geospatial Information Network (BTAA-GIN) and contributes to this endeavor.
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Introduction to NVivo
Friday, February 17, 1:30–3:00 p.m.
NVivo is qualitative data analysis software that helps researchers manage, code, and markup data for both mixed methods and qualitative studies. This workshop introduces the NVivo workspace and basic features, including organizing data, making mind maps, and getting acquainted with data coding. It also provides an overview of qualitative methods commonly used in the humanities and social sciences.
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For information on additional workshops, please visit libraries.rutgers.edu/workshops.