Jajwalya Karajgikar
Jajwalya "Jaj" Karajgikar (she/her) is the Applied Data Science Librarian for the UPenn community.
With extensive experience in data storytelling, natural language processing, computational social sciences, data visualization, network analysis, and knowledge mining (text/data/etc), Jaj engages with researchers across the disciplines interested in employing these techniques. She founded the AI Literacy Interest Group, hosts Carpentry workshops, collaborating on digital scholarship projects, working with the graduate center and other campus partners to establish foundational programming in research computing, data literacy, and data ethics.
Her research interests and adventures range from multilingual manuscripts, Asian art and culture, games-based learning, media studies, critical making to Digital Humanities and Critical Artificial Intelligence.
She has an MS in Computational Sciences from George Mason University and is a Post-Baccalaureate student at the University of Pennsylvania.
Other Affiliations:
American Institute of Indian Studies Digital Scholarship Committee Member
Association for Computers and the Humanities Council Representative
The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations DH24 Program Committee Chair
PrincetonCDH New Languages for Natural Language Processing Member
Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation Text Data Mining Education for Advocacy (TEA) Task Force Member
Software category expertise
- Data tools
- Data analysis & cleanup
- Data collection
- Data management
- GIS, mapping, & spatial methods
- Text mining: Text analysis
- Text mining: Topic modeling
- Web data
Contact me about these services
- Digital skills workshops
- Find datasets
- Machine learning
- Scrape data
- Software for data
- Spaces for data work
- Statistical analysis
- Statistical software consultations
- Work with & visualize data
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Department
Areas of Expertise
- Digital scholarship
- Data management
- Digital humanities
- Digital information