Data Dispatch

Data Services / Data Science Club Datathon is Underway!

Nicholas Wolf — Mon, 08 Feb 2021 16:06:36 +0000

Data Services Love Data Week 2021

Nicholas Wolf — Mon, 08 Feb 2021 15:57:42 +0000

“Data: Delivering a Better Future” is the theme for this year’s Love Data Week, which will be all-virtual. At NYU, Data Services will be hosting a series of workshops, a Data Science Club Datathon, alumni careers panel, and as always, drawing attention to the need for you to care and feed your research data! Visit our overview of the week’s events for a summary of what’s happening between Feb. 8 and Feb. 12.

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.

Data Services Pauses for Indigenous Peoples Day

Data Services — Fri, 09 Oct 2020 19:53:44 +0000

On Monday, October 12, 2020, NYU Data Services will be taking time to learn and observe Indigenous Peoples Day. For us, this means pausing to reflect, through reading scholarship and other resources, on the manifold ways in which European colonialism has precipitated displacement, violence, disease and death upon those first living in North America.

SAN YSIDRO, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES – 2019/07/12: Demonstrator holds a placard during the protest. Over one thousand people gathered in San Ysidro near the US Mexico border to protest against treatment of asylum seekers in US detention centers. 24 immigrants have died in ICE custody during Trumps administration. (Photo by Megan Jelinger/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Members of the Data Services team have aggregated a list of resources, data sets, projects, and other information on Indigenous Peoples Day. We hope that you are able to make use of them in your teaching, research, and learning.

NYU Fall 2020 Tutorials Go Local

NYU Libraries — Mon, 14 Sep 2020 14:31:01 +0000

Welcome to NYU, and for those returning, welcome back to the Fall 2020 semester. This Fall, Data Services has released a robust offering of online, synchronous tutorials that cover software and literacies related to many steps of the data research lifecycle. To see our full list of tutorials and register for them, visit the Data Services tutorials calendar.

Because our tutorials are online, and because we want to reach a broader audience at NYU, we have also listed a handful of offerings at times that are well-suited for those at the NYU Abu Dhabi and NYU Shanghai campuses. The Fall 2020 NYU Go Local list of featured tutorials is as follows:

Data Visualization with Tableau – September 15, 9pm in New York or September 16, 9am in Shanghai
Getting Started with Python Pandas – September 16, 9pm in New York or September 17, 9am in Shanghai
Survey Design with Qualtrics – October 6, 9pm in New York or October 7, 9am in Shanghai
Python for Harvesting Data on the Web – October 7, 9pm in New York or October 8, 9am in Shanghai
Data Cleaning and Management Using Python – November 11, 9pm in New York or November 12, 10am in Shanghai
Introduction to R – October 14, 8pm in New York or October 15, 8am in Shanghai
Using RSQLite and Shiny Applications to Solve Business Problems – November 18, 7pm in New York or November 19, 8am in Shanghai
Extracting Geospatial Data with the OverPass API – October 20, 12am in New York, 8am in Abu Dhabi, and 12pm in Shanghai
Introduction to QGIS – November 9, 11pm in New York, 8am in Abu Dhabi, 12pm (Nov 10) in Shanghai

These tutorials are available to anyone in the NYU community, regardless of current location. They are not recorded because we want anyone who participates to feel comfortable asking questions, sharing examples, or interacting with us as we work through the software. For any questions about registering for Data Services classes, visit the Data Services homepage or email data.services@nyu.edu

Love Data Week 2020: Census Edition

Nicholas Wolf — Tue, 11 Feb 2020 20:19:51 +0000

Data Services is hosting a special edition of Love Data Week with a focus on census data. We are hosting a serious of speakers, data providers, and classes focusing on how to use, reuse, and find census data.

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

Love Data Week 2020, Feb. 10-14

Nicholas Wolf — Mon, 27 Jan 2020 17:18:52 +0000

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.

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.

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.

Demonstrations

Social Explorer

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

Data.census.gov

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

Tutorials