The library is offering a Data Carpentry for Social Scientists (with R) workshop on February 4-5.

The workshop covers: organizing data in spreadsheets, data cleaning with a program called OpenRefine, and an introduction to working with data in the software R.

More information including registration link is here:…[Read more]

Hi all,

Join the Digital Humanities Group in a UX Design Project geared towards building community at UCSD.
We will work through the process of a User Experience (UX) project to create and pitch redesign proposals for KNIT, a non-commercial, open source digital commons for students, faculty, and staff at UC San Diego, San Diego City College,…[Read more]

When
Dec 5, 2019
2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Where
Geisel Library, Dunst Classroom

RSVP via Eventbrite

The relationship between close reading, mid-range reading (Alison Booth, “Mid-Range Reading: Not a Manifesto,” 2017), and distant reading (Franco Moretti, “Distant Reading,” 2013) has expanded the scholarly potential of both literary studies and the soc…[Read more]

Processing Poets’ Voices: Machine(-Aided) Listening & the Poetry Audio Archive

4-5pm Thursday, Oct. 10 in the Seuss Room, UC San Diego Library

Poetry lovers, students, and scholars are currently enjoying a moment of unprecedented access to sound recordings of poets reading their work. PennSound, the world’s largest poetry audio archive, off…[Read more]

Scholarly Publishing Workshop on Manifold

With Jojo Karlin, Manifold Graduate Fellow

Interested in making beautiful, annotatable digital books? Come learn how to publish materials on Manifold, a digital platform for scholarly publishing and open education resources. See how you can create a mobile-friendly, annotatable version of a public domain…[Read more]

Please join us for a social justice digital humanities talk and catered lunch featuring Dr. Angel David Nieves from 10am to noon Tuesday, May 28 at the UCSD Cross Cultural Center (on the second floor of the Price Center). Attendees are strongly encouraged to RSVP via Eventbrite.

 3D Online Publications + Social Justice: The Soweto Uprisings, St…[Read more]

*apologies for cross posting*

Interested in ethical issues in ed tech and free/libre software alternatives for teaching and learning?

Join us at the Ethical EdTech Edit-a-thon–a multi-campus collaboration–to contribute to our Ethical EdTech Wiki and learn more about these issues. We’ll have pizza!

Please RSVP by adding your name to the RS…[Read more]

A warm invitation from USD:

David Stern of the University of Iowa will be discussing his Tractatus Map project at the USD Humanities Center on Monday, March 11 at 5:00 pm. Philosophy has been less well-represented in DH than literature or history, so we’re really excited about showcasing a significant DH project focusing on an important…[Read more]

Hi all,

Andrea Righi will be giving a talk on “The Symbolic Economy of Neoliberal Digital Technology” Monday, Feb. 25, 5:30pm.  Unfortunately, I don’t have much information other than the title, but I thought it may be of interest to some of you. I’ve also been told there will be snacks!

Feel free to join if of interest!

Erin
 

PROF. ANDREA RI…[Read more]

For Love Data Week 2019, the Library is hosting a series of data-themed talks and activities. See here for more information.
Seminars and Workshops
Keeping your data private online

Monday, February 11, 2019 at 2pm – Seuss Room in Geisel Library

Do you have Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, or Tinder on your phone? Have you ever wondered if your…[Read more]

Hi all,

I came across this awesome art project on visualizing terms and services. Though it might be of particular interest to Michael I think it relates to many of the different issues we’ve been talking about these past few…[Read more]