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Friday February 6 at 10 AM, the final session of DST4L’s third round commenced. Jim Davenport had more than enough content to cover during his marathon …
By James Damon
March 11, 2015
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Interactive Visualizations: Finding and Telling Stories with Data using Tableau On February 5th Tara Walker taught us how to use Tableau Public (a free service offered …
By Megan Potter
February 27, 2015
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On December 1st we were lucky to have Lynn Cherny join us as a guest speaker. Lynn’s talk, Design for Interactive Data Visualization (slides & video), started with …
By Christopher Erdmann
January 4, 2015
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“(11/8/2014) The Craftsman worked with speed and precision. He was architect, researcher, tester, and creator. From the translucent python coiled around his arm, he wrought the …
By James Damon
November 18, 2014
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A roomful of librarians interspersed with a few technology geeks gathered at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Phillips Auditorium last weekend to hear software developer and …
By Susan Berstler
November 13, 2014
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When I enrolled in the Fall, 2014 Data Scientist Training for Librarians (DST4L) course, I wasn’t sure how relevant the course’s content would be to my …
By Karen Vagts
October 17, 2014
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“(9/22/2014) The spectacles were perpetrated by wizards of a sort. Magicians of Dada, or ta-da or someodd. As I first understood it, their power was mystical or …
By James Damon
October 1, 2014
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Mark your calendars: the first Data Savvy Librarians Meetup is coming up soon! Wednesday, August 27 4 pm-6 pm Phillips Auditorium, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics 60 …
By Christopher Erdmann
August 20, 2014
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Data Scientist Training for Librarians or DST4L is an experimental course being offered by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics John G. Wolbach Library and the Harvard …
By Christopher Erdmann
August 20, 2014
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The last regularly scheduled meeting of the DST4L class on November 26th, 2013 was devoted to course feedback (the originally scheduled topic “Putting it all Together: …
By Marc McGee
December 5, 2013
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“(11/17/2013) Guided once more by the wise and powerful Dr. Lynn Cherny, MD (Master of Data), we first attempted to discourage cardiac fibrillation by applying Topic …
By James Damon
December 3, 2013
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On November 18th, Gabriel Florit from the Boston Globe talked about data analysis and exploration and presented a wide variety of his interactive visualizations to an …
By Louise Rubin
November 27, 2013
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The DST4L class of November 4 featured the return of instructor Lyn Cherny, whom we last saw at the end of August when she taught a …
By Sarah Corvene
November 12, 2013
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In our 9th week of #DST4L, Rahul Dave built on the previous week’s crash course in statistics with a deep dive into machine learning, classifiers, and …
By Sands Fish
October 30, 2013
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Our #DST4L class on October 22nd was a whirlwind tour of probability, statistics, and machine learning in 3 hours. Before diving into that, I want to …
By Maureen O'Drisceoil
October 28, 2013
