Welcome to Research Day

Hosted by Data Services, NYU IT, and NYU Libraries, this event celebrates, builds, and nurtures NYU’s research community by bringing awareness about research technology, showcasing some exciting research being done here at NYU, and featuring cutting-edge tools, services and resources offered by Data Services, Research Technology, Teaching and Learning, and various partners from NYU IT and Libraries.

Please fill out our registration form to join us on the afternoon of Wednesday, November 6 from 12-5pm in the 5th-floor Research Commons of Bobst Library. We also invite you to participate in our annual mapping and visualization competition. Visit the map and visualization competition information page for more details.

This event is free and open to all NYU student, staff and faculty. 

Features

This event is free and open to all NYU student, staff and faculty.

  • Augmented Reality Sandbox
  • AR/VR booth by Teaching and Learning with Technology
  • Information fair featuring services and resources offered by various partners from NYU IT and NYU Libraries, as well as vendors.
  • Map and Visualization Competition
  • User gallery
  • Food & fun!

Workshops:
  • Qualtrics – web survey tool
  • PolicyMap – database with mapping interface
  • MaxQDA – qualitative/text data analysis software
  • Taguette – qualitative software, text tagging

Lightning Talks:
  • Queering the Web: Creating LGBTQ Community Online in the Digital Age
  • Teaching Math and Computing with Jupyter Hub
  • Racial Disparities in Policing
  • What Are the Books About?
  • Designing for Exploration: How User Experience Can Influence Data Dashboards

Schedule

11:30-12:00 PM: Arrival and registration begins

12:30-5:00 PM: Workshop Showcases (Media Viewing, with doors closed)
  • 12:30-1:30: Qualtrics: “XM – What is Experience Management”
  • 1:45–2:45: PolicyMap
  • 3:00-4:00: MaxQDA
  • 4:15-5:00: Taguette

12:30-5:00 PM: Speakers

Speaker Group 1
Speaker Zone
  • 12:30 pm: Kimon Keramidas, “Queering the Web: Creating LGBTQ Community Online in the Digital Age”
  • 1:00 pm: Jennifer Hill, “Machine Learning and Causal Inference: Better Together (with Caveats)”
  • 1:30 pm: Ifeoluwa Lawal, “Designing for Exploration. How User Experience Can Influence Data Dashboards”
  • 2:00 pm: Ben Schmidt, “What Are the Books About?”

BREAK

Speaker Group 2
Speaker Zone
  • 2:45 pm: Anna Harvey, “Racial Disparities in Policing”
  • 3:30 pm: Joanna Klukowska, “Teaching Math and Computing with Jupyter Hub”
  • 4:00 pm: Kyle Brunner, “Building Handwritten–Text–Recognition (HTR) Models for Syriac Manuscripts with Transkribus: Preliminary Results and Future Prospects”


4:00: Last chance to vote on competitions

4:30-4:45 PM: Competition roundup