Please join us for this two-part workshop series on creating good surveys! Part one (6/7) will cover the basics of writing survey questions that will yield the most accurate data using social science. You'll learn how to avoid satisficing, acquiescing, bias, and much more while creating your survey. Confused about the new updates to Qualtrics? Part two (6/9) will be a live demo of Qualtrics and how...
Cruising Through your Files with Command Line March 9, 2022, 11am-12pm Learn how to navigate through your computer and manipulate your files using the command line interface (also called Bash or Shell). In this hands-on beginner workshop you’ll learn shortcuts to help you quickly and easily move or edit large batches of files and download and install programs. Tired of repetitive pointing and clicking? Is dragging and...
Join us for our first webinar of the spring semester! Are you curious about all things data? Come connect with researchers from across the humanities and social sciences and learn about data services, trainings, and tools available for you at FIU. Bring all your questions to this open discussion. January 19, 11am-12pm Register via Zoom here: https://go.fiu.edu/datacurious About the Presenter: Jill Krefft (MLIS) is the Institutional Repository Coordinator at the Digital...
Please join us for this two-part workshop series on creating good surveys! Part one will cover the basics of writing survey questions that will yield the most accurate data using social science. You'll learn how to avoid satisficing, acquiescing, bias, and much more while creating your survey. Confused about the new updates to Qualtrics? Part two will be a live demo of Qualtrics and how to use...
Coming up in the Virtual Digital Scholar Studio Wednesday, October 6, 2021, 2:30-3:30PM This workshop will teach individual privacy techniques for every day use. Participants will develop an understanding of digital privacy and related laws and learn about threat modeling in order to assess the level of risk they are comfortable with. Participants will also learn how to develop their own security plan that includes techniques addressing...
Coming up in the Digital Scholar Studio’s online space, Wednesday Sept 22nd, 2:30-3:30pm! StoryMaps combine text, interactive maps, and multimedia elements to create an immersive online storytelling experience. In this webinar, participants will learn how to create and tell engaging and powerful stories using ArcGIS StoryMaps. No previous GIS experience required. To register visit go.fiu.edu/storymaps About the presenter: Dr. Diana Ter-Ghazaryan is a Research Associate at the FIU GIS Center, and has been teaching...
Please join us for our first Virtual Digital Scholar Studio Workshop of Fall 2021! Have you ever visited the archives at FIU Libraries? Do you know what a reading room is? A manuscript? A primary source? A finding aid? You are invited to attend an online workshop that will provide attendees with an overview of the archives and how to use any special collections and archives...
From our friends in the GIS Center, GeoWeek 2020! No GIS experience required. Register at maps.fiu.edu/gis/blog/geoweek2020....
Coming up in the Digital Scholar Studio’s online space, Wednesday Oct 21st, 2:30-3:30pm! Text analysis harnesses the power of computing to let us count, visualize, and analyze words and other textual elements as data. This introductory webinar will cover basic concepts, vocabulary, methods, and tools for getting started with text analysis in the humanities. No coding experience is required. Participation is open to scholars from any discipline,...
Coming up in the Digital Scholar Studio’s online space! Introducing a two-part webinar series on best practices, tips, and tricks for working with tabular data, appropriate for beginning to advanced users. These webinars will be focused primarily on textual data, rather than numerical data. Part 1: Thursday October 8th, 2:30-3:30pm! RSVP at go.fiu.edu/excelp1 Part 1 will cover what Excel is good (and not so good) for, as...