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Events
Getting to know ArcGIS Notebooks
This session will introduce users to ArcGIS Notebooks in ArcGIS Pro. ArcGIS Notebooks are based on Jupyter Notebooks and help users integrating python functionality into their workflows. A sample exercise from the Esri Academy will be covered for users. If users are interested in using their own computers, please see instructions for installation of ArcGIS Pro (https://sites.psu.edu/psugis/software/), otherwise computers are available to use.
This session will be held online via Zoom and in W211A Pattee Library.
Research Reproducibility and Data Management in R Workshop Series- Introduction to R and R Studio
This session will introduce R and RStudio, walk through the platform interface, and discuss the utility of using the software for reproducible research practices. Participants will learn how to set a working directory, load data and packages, and discover how to find resources to support general learning and answer specific questions.
Please note: Registration for this workshop series closes Sept 30
This series will be held online via Zoom.
Introduction to SPSS
This session will provide introductory knowledge on how to use SPSS for quantitative statistical analysis, with demonstrations using a practice dataset. Participants will learn how to access SPSS and how to navigate the software interface, inputting different types of data, specifying variables and conducting exploratory data analysis and some basic statistical tests. No previous SPSS experience is required.
This session will be held online via Zoom.
Research Reproducibility and Data Management in R Workshop Series-Data Wrangling in R
This session will introduce the use of the package data.table to manage, clean and transform data into “tidy” format, or create new variables in a reproducible manner. Additionally, participants will learn how to handle string and date/time data.
Please note: Registration for this workshop series closes Sept 30
This series will be held online via Zoom.
Introduction to Minitab
This session will provide a general overview of using Minitab for quantitative statistical analysis, with demonstrations using a practice dataset. Participants will learn how to access Minitab and navigate the software interface, inputting different types of data, specifying and transforming variables and conducting exploratory data analysis and some basic statistical tests. No previous Minitab experience is required.
This session will be held online via Zoom.
Digital Projects and Exhibits
Earth Archives: Stories of Human Impact
To coincide with the 50th anniversary of the first Earth Day in April of 1970, this exhibition explores the intersection of the environment, human activity, and the documentary record.
Beneath the Surface and Cast in Steel: Forging the American Industrial Union Movement
This digital project provides researchers unprecedented access to Penn State’s extensive collection of primary sources related to the history of industrial unionism in the United States.
International Solidarity: Highlights from the Ken Lawrence Collection
The exhibition explores the visual culture of political protest in the late 20th-century.
Penn State Education Activism Archive
Using primary sources from Special Collections, students in Professor Steudeman’s Contemporary American Rhetoric: Educational Activism in the United States (CAS 478) class created The Penn State Educational Activism Archive, which aims to complicate and expand our historical knowledge of student and faculty activism at Penn State University.
Indigenous Roots/Routes
This student-produced digital media project was created as part of the Public Humanities Fellows Program at the Humanities Institute at Penn State and expands on the Indigenous Roots/Routes exhibition, which encompasses a wide swath of history, geographic range, and varied Indigenous people and cultures and explores the processes of social, religious, and political adaptation.
Celebrating the ADA: The Legacy and Evolution of Disability Rights & Lived Experience at Penn State
A digital exhibition that explores the first 100 years of national disability rights and movements and their impact on the Penn State University community, including resources to proactively learn and influence future efforts.