Cameron Cook UW-Madison’s American Family Insurance Data Science Institute has posted a collection of COVID-19 resources that demonstrate the contributions data science can make to better understanding the virus. These resources include projections for the …
Data Visualization
Look to Open Source Options for GIS Software
Creating maps as a way to communicate data is becoming increasingly popular across and integrated into a broader set of academic disciplines. In the humanities, mapping is often used to create visual and interactive objects …
Tool: Scalar
What Is Scalar? Scalar is a free and open-source authoring and publishing platform that allows users to integrate multiple media types into born-digital scholarly works. Built by the Alliance for Networking Visual Culture, Scalar allows …
Tool: Kaggle
What Is Kaggle? Kaggle is an online community of data scientists and machine learners, owned by Google. Kaggle began in 2017 as a site that offered machine learning competitions, and has since expanded into a …
New Tools From the Workshop on Open Citations
From September 3-5, the Workshop on Open Citations was held in Bologna: researchers, scholarly publishers, funders, policy makers, and advocates for open citations gathered to present new tools and practices for the creation, management, and …
Data Visualization: Choosing Tools and Workflows Across the Research Process
Data Visualization can serve as a complement to statistics and as a part of your research process from analysis through publication. Visualization works with the human eye-brain system and can help a viewer see relationships, patterns, and outliers in his or her data.
WordCAKE Tool Workshop Friday 4/25
Please join us tomorrow, Friday, April 25, 1:00 in Memorial Library Commons (4th floor) for a workshop covering the collaborative development and features/use of the WordCAKE tool (link for download will be distributed to participants). WordCAKE offers an interactive 3D experience for exploring how word frequencies change over sequential texts.