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Learn about peer-review, how to find and connect the important information in scholarly articles, and how to use them to support your research.
Presenters: Brittany O’Neill, Information Literacy Librarian & Allison Kittinger, Scholarly Communications Librarian
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Learn what makes a source “good” for your project, how to tell the difference between popular and scholarly sources, and how to fact-check what you find online.
Presenter: Brittany O’Neill, Information Literacy Librarian
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Learn how to choose keywords, identify the best databases for your research, and stay organized as you search.
Presenter: Brittany O’Neill, Information Literacy Librarian
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Learn how to choose and narrow down a topic, as well as start background research to learn more about your topic.
Presenters: Brittany O’Neill, Information Literacy Librarian & Ophelia Chapman, Business & Communication Studies Librarian
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Do you have a paper or project for your class and don’t know where to start? Are you struggling to narrow down your topic? Are you curious about what sources might be the best ones to use? These interactive workshops are deep dives into the foundations of the research process, from beginning to end. Each session will focus on one piece of the puzzle in your research journey. Workshops will be held virtually through Zoom and are open to all undergraduate students. The full list of workshops, dates, and registration links can be found here at: https://library.uncw.edu/cornerstones_research_workshops
Science communication is, in essence, the practice of describing to others about the research you do. One effective method is through data storytelling-- incorporating graphs and visualizations into a narrative to convey specific insights from your results. Science communication is a vital skill that can be used to drive practical change and clarify meaning about a research topic, and especially to engage with public audiences and scholars unfamiliar with your research. Researchers at UNCW will describe their experiences about how they have effectively communicated their own research to various audiences with the use of figures, visualizations, infographics, and other data objects. This panel will thus offer several disciplinary perspectives about what works and what doesn’t work when it comes to wrangling a research project into a concise, clear narrative. The session will be geared especially (but not exclusively!) for graduate students.
About the Panelists:
Dr. Ian Weaver (moderator)—Assistant Professor, Department of English
Dr. Kevin McClure—Associate Professor of Higher Education, Department of Educational Leadership
Dr. Peter Haproff—Assistant Professor of Geology, Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences
Dr. Wendy Strangman—Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
Jared Kerr—Clinical Associate Professor & Graduate Program Coordinator, Clinical Research Program, School of Nursing
Date: Thursday, February 16 at 3:00-4:00pm
Speakers: Ian Weaver (moderator), Kevin McClure, Peter Haproff, Wendy Strangman, Jared Kerr
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In the world today, when we encounter a line graph or a pie chart, we tend to think of the role of visualization—if we think of it at all—as simply revealing the meaning of the data underneath. The reality, however, is that the act of visualizing data generates meaning in and of itself. “The Line Graph and the Slave Ship” returns to the origins of modern data visualization in order to excavate this meaning. Exploring two examples of early data visualization—the line graphs of British trade data included in William Playfair’s Commercial and Political Atlas (1786) and the Diagram of a Slave Ship (1789) created and circulated by a group of British antislavery activists—this talk will connect Enlightenment theories of visual and statistical knowledge to contemporaneous ideas about race and nation. By examining and re-visualizing the data associated with these charts, I will further show how data visualization always carries a set of implicit assumptions—and, at times, explicit arguments—about how knowledge is produced, and who is authorized to produce it. Placing this visualization work in the context of my larger project, Data By Design: An Interactive History of Data Visualization, I will conclude with a consideration of the ethics of visualization in the present. Through a discussion of contemporary examples, I will show how data visualization can bear witness to instances of oppression at the same time that it can—if intentionally designed—hold space for what cannot be conveyed through data alone.
About the Speaker
Lauren Klein is Winship Distinguished Research Professor and Associate Professor in the departments of English and Quantitative Theory & Methods at Emory University, where she also directs the Digital Humanities Lab. Before moving to Emory, she taught in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at Georgia Tech. Klein works at the intersection of digital humanities, data science, and early American literature, with a focus on issues of gender and race. She has designed platforms for exploring the contents of historical newspapers, modeled the invisible labor of women abolitionists, and recreated forgotten visualization schemes with fabric and addressable LEDs. In 2017, she was named one of the “rising stars in digital humanities” by Inside Higher Ed. She is the author of An Archive of Taste: Race and Eating in the Early United States (University of Minnesota Press, 2020) and, with Catherine D’Ignazio, Data Feminism (MIT Press, 2020). With Matthew K. Gold, she edits Debates in the Digital Humanities, a hybrid print-digital publication stream that explores debates in the field as they emerge. Her current project, Data by Design: An Interactive History of Data Visualization, 1786-1900, was recently funded by an NEH Digital Humanities Advancement Grant.
Date: Wednesday, February 15 at 2:00-3:15pm
Speaker: Lauren Klein
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UNCW ITS (Information Technology Services) support for Research Computing is growing as faculty and students embark on research projects that demand more in the way of technology resources. In this forum, we will discuss new solutions that are available to researchers for storing large data sets in the cloud at no cost. We will also highlight new offerings through a partnership with AWS (Amazon Web Services) that changes the model of technology consumption and shortens the procurement process from months to minutes. Join Parker Moran, director of Networks, IT Operations, and Research, to learn about available infrastructure resources and ask questions specific to your research data needs.
About the Speaker
Parker Moran is the Director of Networks, IT Operations, and Research in Information Technology Services (Campus ITS)
Date: Tuesday, February 14 at 2:00-3:00pm
Speaker: Parker Moran
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Real-time data is information delivered immediately; depending on the need, the use of data streams can keep research up to date for immediate accuracy and depth in analysis, or continually updating earlier data for shared visualizations such as data dashboards—like COVID-19 data trackers. This panel will showcase examples of research projects at UNCW involving real-time, near real-time, or batch processing. It will highlight benefits and challenges for its use, and break down various conditions and practices involved when using real-time data, including the set-up, collection, analysis, and maintenance of the data.
About the Panelists
Dr. Ray Danner (moderator)—Assistant Professor, Department of Biology and Marine Biology
Dr. Lynn Leonard—Professor of Geology, Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences; and Director of Coastal Ocean Research and Monitoring Program
Dr. Ulku Clark—Professor of Management Information Systems, Congdon School of Supply Chain, Business Analytics, and Information Systems; and Director of the Center for Cyber Defense Education
Dr. Ryan Mieras—Assistant Professor of Coastal Engineering, Department of Physics and Physical Oceanography
Dr. Joanne Halls—Professor of Geography, Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences
Dr. Minoo Modaresnezhad--Assistant Professor, Congdon School of Supply Chain, Business Analytics, and Information Systems
Date: Tuesday, February 14 at 10:00-11:00am
Speakers: Ray Danner (moderator), Lynn Leonard, Ulku Clark, Ryan Mieras, Joanne Halls, Minoo Modaresnezhad
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