Take a Cookie, Learn about Data
Monday, Feb. 10 from 3:00 to 4:00 pm
Stop by the RBD Help Desk on the second floor or the Circulation Desk on the first floor to get a free heart cookie and chat with a librarian about personal data safety.
Webinar: Demystifying Federal Data Sharing Requirements
Ali Krzton, Research Data Management Librarian
Tuesday, Feb. 11 at 3:00 pm → REGISTER HERE
Summary: If you have received a federal research grant or plan to apply for one, you may be wondering what to do with your data at project closeout. This talk will present an overview of federal agencies’ data sharing requirements and give you practical strategies to meet or exceed them. Sharing your data responsibly provides an opportunity to raise your research profile and accelerate new discoveries. There will be a Q&A session after the presentation.
Discover Auburn Lecture: Whose data is it, anyway? Everyone’s, if you guarantee privacy!
Dr. Roberto Molinari
Wednesday, Feb. 12 at 3:00 pm
Location: RBD Library, CMD Auditorium (Ground Floor)
Summary: The amount of personal data being collected on every individual is growing exponentially. Between online accounts, social-media profiles, and cloud storage systems, threats to data security are proliferating as well. Traditional methods to protect our data include encryption and/or locking this information behind passwords, firewalls or multi-level authentication systems to impede access by malicious attackers (and possibly the elderly, whose attempts to access their own data grow more complicated each year). Is there a way to protect individual privacy while allowing access to personal data? This discussion introduces a growing area of research in data science: the development of tools to modify the data just enough to protect individual privacy while preserving the information we would have found in the original data. Building on these tools, researchers and scientists in a wide variety of fields can explore previously unavailable data sources ethically, delivering novel discoveries and finding new solutions to old problems.
Webinar: Finding Census Data
Liza Weisbrod, Government Information Librarian
Thursday, Feb. 13 at 2:00 pm → REGISTER HERE
Summary: The U.S. Census Bureau provides a wealth of demographic, social, economic, and housing data. In this introduction to census data, participants will learn to:
Workshop: Introduction to Tableau
Carrie Hill, Digital Scholarship Librarian
Saturday, Feb. 15 at 1:30 pm
Part of Graduate Student Boot Camp at RBD Library → REGISTER HERE
Summary: Do you need software that will help you make data visualizations for your research? Come to Introduction to Tableau for a tour of the basics for this industry-standard software for data analytics. We’ll work together to make a first visualization to learn the ropes of importing data, selecting the right type of chart, and designing an effective visualization.
