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Author: Jajwalya Karajgikar
Applied Data Science Librarian
Jaj engages with researchers across the disciplines interested in employing techniques for data storytelling, natural language processing, computational social sciences, data visualization, network analysis, and text mining. She works with campus partners to establish foundational programming in research computing, data literacy, and data ethics.
Learn to visualize text analysis with Voyant Tools, maps with Storymap.js, and charts with Microsoft Excel alongside students of PROW 2000: Writing with Data
Interested in retrieving data from the web? Learn how to scrape open data from websites with BeautifulSoup Python package along with the best practices.
Interested in building an online dashboard? Use RShiny to visualize your data in an interactive way and create engaging data analysis web applications.
Interested in making beautiful charts out of social network data? Visualize networks of communities, groups of entities, and glean information from the graphs for further network analysis using R packages igraph and NetworkD3.