[Rdap] Apply now! Data & Visualization Institute for Librarians

[Hilary Davis]

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Apply now!  The Data and Visualization Institute for Librarians is
accepting applications from February 15 through March 13.  Applicants will
be notified of their acceptance status no later than March 18, 2016.

The Institute will be held May 23 - 27, 2016 at the James B. Hunt Jr.
Library, North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina.

For more information and to apply, visit:
https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/datavizinstitute

The Data and Visualization Institute for Librarians is a week-long course
providing the opportunity for librarians passionate about research and
scholarship to immerse themselves in learning about data science and
visualization in collaboration with academic peers. Participants will
develop knowledge, skills, and confidence to communicate effectively with
faculty and student researchers about their data and be able to provide
initial consultancy on the course topics. Led by expert instructors,
sessions will be interactive and will focus on mastery of core concepts,
with hands-on exposure to select open source and highly used commercial
tools. Sharing of practices and experiences across institutions will be
encouraged.

Final curriculum and schedule coming soon, including sessions on topics
such as:


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   Data Exploration and Statistical Analysis
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   Bibliometric Analysis
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   Data Visualization
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   Data Description, Sharing, and Reuse
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   Working with Messy Data
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   Gathering and Analyzing Textual and Multimedia Data
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   Open Data and Open Science


Visit our website (https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/datavizinstitute) to stay
up-to-date on program details.
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-- 
Hilary Davis
Head of Collection Management & Director of Research Data Services
NCSU Libraries
Box 7111
2 Broughton Drive
Raleigh, NC 27695
fax: 919-515-7854
phone: 919-513-0654
hmdavis4 at ncsu.edu
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