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Learn about creative approaches to visualizing and observing data.

School Protests in Africa is a dynamic digital scholarship project whose central premise revolves around resurfacing the frequency and prevalence of modern youth-led protests in Africa.

For this month's departmental reading group, we read Jacqueline Wernimont's "Listening, Care, and Collections as Data," published in the Journal of Critical Digital Librarianship.

Leaflet.js is a lightweight, open source Javascript library that is widely used to create and share web mapping projects online.

D3 (Data Driven Documents) is an open source Javascript library that is widely used by data experts, creative technologists, and scholars to create and share many different kinds of data visualizations on the web. D3 is a “web-first” visualization library, making it a great tool for creating an interactive visualization that can be embedded in a larger digital project.

For our beginner-friendly “data gathering” session, we had over 30 attendants come together in a hands-on workshop to reflect on how we might gather and curate datasets from our own lives.

The Data Jam theme during week 5 was on Visualizing Space. The workshop on Visualizing Space with ArcGIS/QGIS explored the various components of the ESRI's ArcMap and the free and open source QGIS.

Interested in building an online dashboard? Use RShiny to visualize your data in an interactive way and create engaging data analysis web applications.