The RDDS Blog

Jaj Karajgikar, Applied Data Science Librarian and Eug Xu, RDDS Data Science & Society Research Assistant present their work on AI Literacy Interest Group & Data Science Instruction over the last year. Learn more about how they use loom weaving techniques for teaching computation and curate special collections showcases on the history of technology and digital humanities.

Zhitong Chen is one of our Student Statistical Software Consultants at Research Data and Digital Scholarship. She will graduate this May 2025 with a Master's in Computer and Information Technology.

Eug Xu is the Data Science & Society Research Assistant at Research Data and Digital Scholarship with Jaj Karajgikar, the Applied Data Science Librarian. Eug is also a winner of the 2024 Dean’s Scholar Award.

We want our patrons to get to know our Research Data & Digital Scholarship staff. This month’s feature focuses on Lauren Phegley, our Research Data Engineer. Read more about Lauren’s background, interests, and more.

Research Data & Digital Scholarship welcomes Matthew Hunter to our team as the new Head of Digital Scholarship. Read more about Matt's background, interests, and plans for his role!

Learn about Penn Libraries' support of open access during International Open Access Week 2024 and year-round.

On September 7th 2023, a group of around 20 students, staff, and faculty gathered at the Kelly Writers House (KWH) for a Prompt Battle-Off. Conceived by Jaj Karajgikar, Applied Data Science Librarian from Research Data and Digital Scholarship and Zach Carduner, the Digital Projects Manager at KWH, the evening promised to talk about if and how to use Gen AI tools in creative writing with hands-on exercises.

Jaj Karajgikar, Applied Data Science Librarian and Rachel Liu, Text and Data Research Asistant presented the multiple faculty-led Data Visualization Projects, Text and Data Mining Workflows, Libguides, Literacy & Research material for consultations that they have built together over the course of almost 2 years of successful, camaraderie-filled collaboration as a mentor-mentee for Penn Libraries Presents series.

Learn about how data curation adds value when sharing research data. ScholarlyCommons new data curation service is here to support high quality data sharing by University of Pennsylvania researchers.