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<p>The Geospatial Research Lab is the University Library’s geospatial research support program for faculty, students, and staff at American University. We provide expertise in geographic information systems (GIS), spatial analysis, and mapping, helping the AU community apply spatial thinking and geospatial tools across disciplines. Services include guidance on data acquisition, project design, software, and map-based storytelling.</p>
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<p>Whether you’re designing a map for a publication, seeking spatial data for a capstone, or exploring GIS methods for a class project, the Geospatial Research Lab can help. We work with researchers at every stage from idea development through analysis and presentation.</p>
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<p>We also support instructors who want to integrate mapping or spatial data into their teaching. This includes help designing assignments, identifying appropriate tools or datasets, and developing lab activities or course-specific GIS resources.</p>
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"text": "The Geospatial Research Lab hosts workshops throughout the semester on topics in GIS, mapping, and data literacy. These sessions are open to students, faculty, and staff across American University. This page provides information about upcoming workshops and also serves as an archive where you can find handouts, slides, and other materials from past sessions.\nYou can find the full schedule and register for upcoming events on our AU Library Workshops Calendar.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nData Prep for GIS Research\n\n\n\nSeptember 2025\nThis session introduced strategies for preparing tabular and spatial data for GIS analysis. Topics included cleaning messy data, setting up file structures, and preparing datasets for ArcGIS Pro and QGIS.\n➡️ View workshop materials\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nZombie Data: Preserving At-Risk Public Datasets\n\n\n\nOctober 2025 (Scary Data Week)\nThis interactive workshop focused on rescuing endangered public datasets using tools like the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine and DataLumos. Attendees learned practical preservation techniques while contributing to data rescue efforts.\n➡️ View workshop materials\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMapping Small Joys: Critical Mapping in the Classroom\n\n\n\nAugust 2025\nPart of the Teaching in Place workshop series, this hands-on session used sketch mapping and zine-making to explore spatial thinking as a teaching tool. Participants created “small joys” maps and discussed ethical considerations for mapping student experiences.\n➡️ View workshop materials"
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"text": "Data Prep for GIS Research\n\n\n\nSeptember 2025\nThis session introduced strategies for preparing tabular and spatial data for GIS analysis. Topics included cleaning messy data, setting up file structures, and preparing datasets for ArcGIS Pro and QGIS.\n➡️ View workshop materials\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nZombie Data: Preserving At-Risk Public Datasets\n\n\n\nOctober 2025 (Scary Data Week)\nThis interactive workshop focused on rescuing endangered public datasets using tools like the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine and DataLumos. Attendees learned practical preservation techniques while contributing to data rescue efforts.\n➡️ View workshop materials"
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"text": "Upcoming Workshops\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAI Tools for Research: Getting Started with Literature Reviews\n\n\n\nOctober 2025\nThis session is part of the AI in Research series hosted by the Digital Research and Innovation Lab, focused on helping graduate students use emerging tools to explore, organize, and communicate research more effectively. In this workshop, we’ll reframe the literature review not as a writing assignment, but as a discovery process grounded in digital scholarship. We’ll begin with the research you already know—articles from your coursework, advisor recommendations, and foundational texts in your field—and show how AI-supported tools like Google Scholar, Semantic Scholar, and Research Rabbit can help you follow citation networks, trace conceptual lineages, and identify related work across disciplines. Along the way, we’ll demonstrate how tools like Zotero and LibKey Nomad can streamline your research workflow and help you manage your growing body of sources. Whether you’re starting a thesis, preparing for comps, or just learning to navigate the scholarly conversation, this session offers practical, research-focused strategies for using AI to build an intentional, well-scoped literature review.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAI Tools for Research: Cleaning and Documenting Messy Data with Generative AI\n\n\n\nOctober 2025\nThis hands-on workshop introduces strategies for cleaning messy research data and shows how generative AI tools can support that process. You’ll learn how to identify common issues in tabular datasets including missing values, inconsistent formatting, and duplicates and how to plan a reproducible cleanup workflow. Then, we’ll explore how to use generative AI to help write R code for cleaning tasks, with an emphasis on producing reusable scripts and well-documented steps. Designed for graduate students working with real-world data, this session is useful for anyone preparing a dataset for analysis, visualization, or sharing. No prior experience with R is helpful, but not required.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nData Preservation Workshop: Bringing Data Back from the Dead!\n\n\n\nOctober 2025 (Scary Data Week)\nDigital data doesn’t always stay put. Websites change, tools disappear, and valuable datasets can quietly slip offline—sometimes forever. In this Scary Data Week workshop, you’ll learn how to bring data “back from the dead” using the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine. We’ll explore how and why datasets vanish, walk through the steps of preserving webpages, and give you the chance to reanimate a dataset of your own. No technical experience required—just curiosity, a laptop, and a willingness to protect public knowledge from the digital grave. Whether you’re a researcher, student, or data enthusiast, you’ll leave this session with practical skills and a deeper understanding of the role you can play in preserving civic information."
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"text": "Geospatial Research Lab\nThe Geospatial Research Lab is the University Library’s geospatial research support program for faculty, students, and staff at American University. We provide expertise in geographic information systems (GIS), spatial analysis, and mapping, helping the AU community apply spatial thinking and geospatial tools across disciplines. Services include guidance on data acquisition, project design, software, and map-based storytelling.\nWhether you’re designing a map for a publication, seeking spatial data for a capstone, or exploring GIS methods for a class project, the Geospatial Research Lab can help. We work with researchers at every stage from idea development through analysis and presentation.\nWe also support instructors who want to integrate mapping or spatial data into their teaching. This includes help designing assignments, identifying appropriate tools or datasets, and developing lab activities or course-specific GIS resources.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNote\n\n\n\nOur work includes:\n\nConsultations on spatial methods and data\nGuidance with GIS tools including ArcGIS Pro, QGIS, R, and open mapping platforms\nInstructional support for incorporating mapping into the classroom\nCuration of AU’s geospatial and statistical data collections\n\n\n\nConsultations are available by appointment. While we do not provide one-on-one software instruction, we can help you clarify research questions, identify appropriate tools and training resources, and troubleshoot issues related to spatial data and analysis. To request a consultation or learn more about our services, visit our Bookings site.\nLooking for access to GIS software? Visit the GIS & Cartography LibGuide for more information.\nVisit the GIS Lab page to learn about the workstations and software available in Bender Library Room B53."
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"text": "The Geospatial Research Lab is the University Library’s geospatial research support program for faculty, students, and staff at American University. We provide expertise in geographic information systems (GIS), spatial analysis, and mapping, helping the AU community apply spatial thinking and geospatial tools across disciplines. Services include guidance on data acquisition, project design, software, and map-based storytelling.\nWhether you’re designing a map for a publication, seeking spatial data for a capstone, or exploring GIS methods for a class project, the Geospatial Research Lab can help. We work with researchers at every stage from idea development through analysis and presentation.\nWe also support instructors who want to integrate mapping or spatial data into their teaching. This includes help designing assignments, identifying appropriate tools or datasets, and developing lab activities or course-specific GIS resources.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNote\n\n\n\nOur work includes:\n\nConsultations on spatial methods and data\nGuidance with GIS tools including ArcGIS Pro, QGIS, R, and open mapping platforms\nInstructional support for incorporating mapping into the classroom\nCuration of AU’s geospatial and statistical data collections\n\n\n\nConsultations are available by appointment. While we do not provide one-on-one software instruction, we can help you clarify research questions, identify appropriate tools and training resources, and troubleshoot issues related to spatial data and analysis. To request a consultation or learn more about our services, visit our Bookings site.\nLooking for access to GIS software? Visit the GIS & Cartography LibGuide for more information.\nVisit the GIS Lab page to learn about the workstations and software available in Bender Library Room B53."
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