<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><div><img src="cid:ii_joa59bqy1" alt="image.png" width="542" height="109" class="gmail-CToWUd gmail-a6T" tabindex="0" style="cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;"><br></div></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span id="gmail-m_209894467615644232gmail-docs-internal-guid-72aa20a8-7fff-c236-392c-7a88eb156825" style="font-family:-webkit-standard"><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Save the Date!  </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Data Science and Visualization Institute for Librarians will be held </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">May 13 - 17, 2019</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(255,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">at the James B. Hunt Jr. Library, North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina.  </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Applications for the Institute will be accepted beginning on Dec 11, 2018.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><a href="https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/data-science-and-visualization-institute" target="_blank">https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/data-science-and-visualization-institute</a></span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Data Science 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.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">A final schedule will be available in December, including topics such as:</span></p><br><ul style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Data Exploration and Analysis</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Data Visualization</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11p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