Ramona Romero
Among other things, GitHub is a social network for computer programmers. But GitHub is also a fantastic educational technology. In this session, we'll introduce you to git, the distributed version control system that powers GitHub. We'll show you how to set up an account with GitHub and collaborate with others on projects. You will learn the basics of Markdown, the simple markup language used to communicate on GitHub. We'll talk about the uses of GitHub in the classroom, the sciences, and the digital humanities. If you're brave, we'll even get into advance topics like branching and forking. By the end of the session, you'll be ready to create repositories and collaborate with scholars around the interwebs.
Lindsey Fox
A Geographic Information System (GIS) is a suite of mapping software and technology that is used to create, store, change, analyze, and display geographically referenced data. This workshop will explore the basics of online GIS including: types of data, terminology, and various platforms. We will also spend time create a basic online map.
Suellen Stringer-Hye
Networks are everywhere these days - Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter are all networks of one form or another. In this session, we'll teach you how to analyze networks using the open source graph database Neo4J. We will show you how to set up a sample network, analyze the relations between its parts, and visualize the results using a simple query language called Cypher. You'll leave with the ability to analyze simple networks and with the tools you'll need to develop more complex projects.
Cliff Anderson
The R programming language is an open-source statistical programming language. You can use R to produce really nice graphs. But did you also know that you can create interactive data visualizations with R? In this workshop, we will learn to create an online visualization using Shiny, a framework for creating web applications using R.
Ed Warga
Wikipedia is the premier reference source of our era. But who writes its articles? How does the editorial process work? In this session, we'll teach you everything you need to know to become a productive editor of Wikipedia. Learn how to create an account, add to existing articles, comment and pose questions on talk pages, and even create your own articles. We'll also suggest how to incorporate Wikipedia into your pedagogy and scholarship.
Steve Baskauf
The concept of Linked Data encompasses a broad set of techniques, tools and query languages that allow for connecting structured data. RDF is a tool for structuring data as defined by the W3C. Once data is structured using RDF, you can query it using the query langauage SPARQL. Callimachus is a Linked Data management system. It is an open source tool that allows you to easily execute SPARQL queries on RDF data. Join us as we explore an RDF dataset to see the power of linked data and the range of questions we can now ask of this structured data.
Derek Bruff
Communicating privately and securely is crucial when corresponding about sensitive topics. Learn the basics of Public/Private Key Encryption. We will explore how services like keybase.io and Mailvelope enable secure communication. By the end of this session, you will know how to prevent unauthorized actors from surveilling your scholarly communications.
Morgan Daniels
There is an enormous amount of data available on the Internet to download, combine, and analyze. It can be difficult, though, to bring together data in different formats, from different sources, for analysis. In this session, we will try out tools for working with data from websites, in formats like .xls, .csv, and .pdf, using APIs and other tools.
Ed Warga
This workshop explores automating tasks. Receive alerts if it's raining. Post articles with certain tags to your blog or Twitter feed automatically. Control the Internet of things. We will test one particular automation application - IFTTT, discuss possible uses in various workflows (research, social media, personal), and practice using the app to create programs to automate tasks.
Morgan Daniels
Data visualization can help you turn your research data into an easily interpreted, compelling story. In this workshop, we will load datasets into several visualization tools to explore their benefits for different research needs.
Suellen Stringer-Hye
If you'd like to have a scholarly presence on the web, you have many options available to you at low or no cost. We'll look at several possibilities during this session, including Github Pages and Wordpress. Join us as we explore the pros and cons of the various platforms for enhancing your scholarly profile.