There’s still room to sign up for some of our workshops and classes, where you can learn data skills touching on the full range of research needs, from Python and R skills to GIS and qualitative data research. Visit our schedule to find a session.

This year, we are featuring a new event, a Datathon co-hosted by the Data Science Club and Data Services. Our teams are off in pursuit of fabulous prizes, and we wish them luck in tackling one of three projects. You can catch up with the Datathon on its home page at https://nyu-dataservices.github.io/2021-love-datathon.

To register for events, visit the library signup page.

Among the highlights:

Tuesday, February 11, 1:00-2:00

“Counting New York: NYC Census 2020” [Register]

Julie Menin, Director, NYC Census 2020

Wednesday, February 12, 1:00-2:00

The Economic Census [Register]

Lucia S. Foster, Chief, Center for Economic Studies, Economic Indicators Division (EID), US Census Bureau

Wednesday, February 12, 4:00-5:00

Social Explorer [Register]

Social Explorer offers mapping historical and current U.S. Census Data. 

February 13, 2:00-3:00

Data.census.gov [Register]

An interactive portal for accessing and downloading all Census Bureau datasets.

Tutorials

• Accessing US Census Data
• Introduction to SPSS
• Writing a Data Management Plan
• Creating Graphics with R
• Text as Data in the Humanities
• Data Visualization with Tableau
• Introduction to MATLAB
• Big Data: MapReduce
• Data Wrangling in Stata

Love Data Week: The 2020 U.S. Census

Every 10 years, the decennial census allows the U.S. to fully count its population.  This year, during the national research data initiative Love Data Week, the Division of Libraries will focus its programming on the U.S. Census.  Census data not only determines political representation and federal funding allocations, it also plays and important role in supporting social science research.  The Data Services team has put together a series of speakers and tutorials to bring awareness to the national initiative and examine the many ways the data can be used in scholarship and research.  Many of our most popular tutorials will also be offered to mark Love Data Week.

Speakers

Monday, February 10, 2:00-3:15
“Exploring the Census: Custom Data Extractions”

Frank Donnelly, Geospatial Data Librarian, Baruch College CUNY, Author of Exploring the U.S. census : your guide to America’s data (2019)

After an introduction to the various Census data sources, Frank will demontrate methods for creating custom census data extracts with Python. Participants are welcome to bring a laptop and follow along with the demontration.

Register

Tuesday, February 11, 1:00-2:00
“Counting New York: NYC Census 2020”

Julie Menin, Director, NYC Census 2020

As the Director of NYC Census 2020, Julie Menin organizes extensive outreach efforts to encourage every New York City resident to participate in the upcoming 2020 Census. An accurate census count will ensure that New York receives its fair share of education, healthcare, housing and infrastructure funding and its proper electoral representation in Congress and the electoral college. 

Register

Wednesday, February 12, 1:00-2:00
“The Economic Census”

Lucia S. Foster, Chief, Center for Economic Studies, Economic Indicators Division (EID), US Census Bureau

Every five years, the U.S. Census Bureau collects extensive statistics about businesses that are essential to understanding the American economy. This official count, the Economic Census, serves as the foundation for the measurement of U.S. businesses and their economic impact. Statistics from the economic census are inputs to key measures of the US economy such as the gross domestic product (GDP), product accounts (NIPAs) and the Producer Price Index (PPI).  These resources offer researchers deep and broad insights into the US Economy both today and in the past.

Register

Demonstrations

Social Explorer

Social Explorer offers mapping historical and current U.S. Census Data. 

Register

Data.census.gov

An interactive portal for accessing and downloading all Census Bureau datasets.

Register

Tutorials

• Accessing US Census Data
• Introduction to SPSS
• Writing a Data Management Plan
• Creating Graphics with R
• Text as Data in the Humanities
• Data Visualization with Tableau
• Introduction to MATLAB
• Big Data: MapReduce
• Data Wrangling in Stata

Once again we offered a visualization competition in which entrants could submit a map or visualization to compete for a prize. Our three winners were Yichun Liu, MS candidate in the School of Professional Studies, Emily Fenster, MA candidate in the Department of English, and Patrick Bond, MS candidate in Interdisciplinary Studies.

Liu’s interactive dashboard of plots and maps explores the place of Airbnb in New York City using data on listing pricing and types. Built in Tableau Public, Liu’s visualization can be accessed here.

Fenster’s visual storytelling was built in ESRI StoryMaps using data gleaned from the nineteenth-century missionary work of Henry Chase and the Mariner’s Church among the sailors of New York’s Lower East Side. Follow her visualization story here.

Tableau Public was also the tool of choice used by Bond to build his investigation of terror attacks in the United States between 1970 and 2018, a project built out of data from the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism.

Congratulations to all of our winners and our thanks to the many researchers who submitted entries!

To learn more and to register, visit the Research Day 2019 homepage.