Trinity Days Workshops - Register Now!

I will be hosting three workshops over Trinity Days:

• Workshop#1: Excel (Monday, October 12, 10 - 12)
• Workshop#2: SPSS (Monday, October 12, 2 - 4)
• Workshop#3: Atlas.ti (Tuesday, October 13, 10 - 12)

We’ll be working in the best computer lab on campus (Seabury 205), eating some food, and working through some “real world” situations that require technical, software skills. There is no better time to start picking up these skills than while you are in college, where you can do this for free in a low-stress environment!

These workshops are for students from all skill levels (from those who would rather avoid learning new software to those who know a lot about the software at hand but want to learn how to apply software skills to real, problem-solving activities).

Please visit the SSC events page to read the flier and register!

ICPSR's Meeting for Official Representatives - Online this week!

Today was the kickoff for ICPSR's first ever online OR meeting. Usually ICPSR hosts their meeting in Ann Arbor every other year. But the economy got the best of everyone this year, and so they decided to host it online via webinars instead. Although it's disappointing not to go to Ann Arbor, the plus of doing things this way is that more people can attend. It doesn't cost a dime to register for these webinars and learn a few things about data.

Libbie Stephenson and I hosted our New OR Orientation today, so if you are not reading this blog post before now, I hate to say that you missed it! But do check out the rest of the schedule for this week. I'm hoping to catch the session on the 2010 Census on Wednesday at 11:00!

Trinity folks hard at work, even during break

Dan, Devlin and I presented on our Invisible-Cities-Google-maps-mash-up work at a faculty development workshop the other day. If you look behind us, you can see a map. I think it's the one on problem properties. Look how happy we look...

Of course, the workshop was not all about maps. The first speaker was Tom Deans, from UCONN's Writing Center. He spoke about the classes he teaches where he has students write about/for/with community groups. The distinction between about/for/with is an interesting one, particularly when applied to our cases with google maps. The maps we made in our class were certainly about the community (abandoned properties), for the community in that we hoped people would use the map as a basis for action, and with the community, in that a local organization requested exactly this map!