Tag: Data Jam

Learn techniques to create compelling graphs and tell better stories.

Learn about creative approaches to visualizing and observing data.

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

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 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.

Every year since 2019, Penn Libraries has been celebrating a GIS Day event by hosting a line up of events including workshops/tutorials, presentations, lightning talks, and project demos, and/or panel discussion on a specific topic. GIS Day provides an international forum for users of geographic information systems (GIS) technology to demonstrate real-world applications that are making a difference in our society.

Data visualizations help us identify trends and communicate information about large datasets. This workshop introduced users to the basics of using Tableau Public, a free and easy-to-use data visualization tool. We reviewed how to import data, navigate the Tableau interface, and create simple visualizations for publishing and sharing online.