Event Calendar | Kelvin Smith Library

Feb 01

Therapy Dogs @ KSL

Come say hi and hang out with some friendly pups in the KSL atrium! Stay for as little or as long as you would like.
Feb 01

Spring Digital Scholarship Workshops @ KSL

Join Digital Scholarship Partners for an introductory series of talks and hands-on workshops that explore data, where to find it, what to do with it, and how to use it to your advantage in…
Feb 01

Mapping Data

Explore the history of mapping data, the reasons to try it and tools that make it accessible. We will look at R and several other tools. There will be 15 minutes at the end for Q&A. …
Feb 01

KSL Game Night: Trivia Night!

KSL Game Night presents Trivia Night! Gather your friends and join us for our first event of the Spring semester! Create a team up to six people, or we'll match you up when you arrive. …
Feb 08

Intro to Mapping in R: Workshop

A hands-on introduction to making maps in R. We will look at preparing data and mapping using the choroplethr and ggmap packages. No experience necessary!
Feb 15

New Faculty Orientation

The Kelvin Smith Library wishes to invite CWRU’s new faculty members to attend a brief orientation/tour of the Library’s key services, meeting space, and resources for faculty. The…
Feb 22

Intro to GIS: Workshop

Whatever your area of interest, GIS can be for you. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) enables everyone to transform data into maps and enhance your research via geospatial methods. This…
Mar 01

Using Text Analysis

What is text analysis? What are the methods? What are the tools? What does this mean for my discipline?!? We will explore these big questions! There will be 15 minutes at the end for…
Mar 07

Zs Get Degrees, Learn Healthy Sleep Habits

It's National Sleep Week! University Health and Counseling Services "Zs get Degrees" Program is being offered at KSL. Learn about healthy sleep habits, how sleeping supports long-term memory…
Mar 08

Intro to Text Analysis with Python: Workshop

A hands-on introduction to using python for exploring a set of texts. We will explore several language processing packages and demonstrate simple ways that text analysis can be used to aid…
Mar 22

Photogrammetry: Workshop

Making 3D models is surprisingly easy with photogrammetry. Learn the principles of the process and make your own 3D model in as little as one hour just using your phone camera and the…
Mar 29

Network Analysis with Gephi: Workshop

Network analysis helps us model connections and relationships between entities. From epidemiology to economics to literature, network analysis can reveal the invisible landscape of…
Apr 05

Finding, Preparing and Exploring Data

What is data? How do I get it? Even more important, how do I find data relevant to my academic interests?! We’ll look at a variety of data types and sources and discuss how you can…
Apr 06

BYOD (Bring Your Own Data) Workshop

Do you have a dataset? Don’t know where to start? Need to clean it up? Maps? Graphs? Text Analysis? Stop by our BYOD (Bring Your Own Data) workshop and we explore the possibilities!