This webinar will provide an overview of ORCID. Information will be provided to help you understand what an ORCID iD is and how it can benefit you. You will learn how to register for an ORCID iD and how to start populating data in your ORCID record.
data visualization
Tableau and Surveys (Workshop)
Workshop level: Intermediate
The Research Commons Tableau and Surveys workshop follows the Tableau for Research workshops and bootcamps presented earlier this academic year. This workshop will help Ohio State faculty and graduate students:
- Organize and prepare survey data to efficiently and effectively analyze responses.
- Create engaging visuals summarizing demographic survey data;
- Explore strategies to present matrix question responses on one visual;
- Visualize open response or qualitative data.
The workshop content will be delivered live, and one-on-one support will be provided for practice activities and applying the workshop material to your own research data.
Questions? Email the Research Commons at researchcommons@osu.edu
Tableau for Research (Workshop)
Workshop level: Beginner
The Research Commons Tableau for Research workshop introduces Ohio State faculty and graduate students to Tableau, a no-code, drag and drop solution for creating visually engaging and impactful data visualizations. Workshop participants will learn to:
- Navigate the Tableau workspace and develop strategies for locating and critically evaluating freely available data;
- Connect, shape and prepare data for the Tableau workspace;
- Choose the most effective visual for what you are trying to show with the data you’ve collected;
- Describe and demonstrate key concepts, including aggregation and level-of-detail, addressing and partitioning, and when to use continuous versus discrete dates; and
- Apply visualization best practices to create impactful, engaging visualizations.
The workshop content will be delivered live, and one-on-one support will be provided for practice activities and applying the workshop material to your own research data.
Questions? Email the Research Commons at researchcommons@osu.edu
Introduction to Data Visualization (Virtual Event)
Join us for a virtual Introduction to Data Visualization workshop. Learn what data visualization is and why it is important. Examples, tips, tools, best practices and other resources will be shared to help you effectively visualize data for presentations, research and more.
Introduction to the 2023 NIH Data Management and Sharing Policy (Virtual Event)
Do you have an upcoming NIH proposal due? Join us to learn about the newly implemented NIH Data Management and Sharing (DMS) policy, including the requirement to submit a DMS plan with all new applications and renewals. Compliance with the submitted and accepted plan will be assessed, and non-compliance can impact future funding.
This informational session will provide an introduction to the policy, an overview of tools and resources provided by Ohio State to help you, and preliminary feedback from select Institutes and Centers about submitted plans.
Topics to be covered include:
- How the DMPTool can help you address the required elements of a DMS plan
- Tips for identifying a suitable repository
- Guidance on how to budget for data-related costs
This workshop is ideal for researchers who currently receive NIH funding or may apply in the future, as well as staff who support NIH-funded researchers. This session is scheduled for 90 minutes to allow ample time for attendee questions.
Can’t make the workshop? Check out the NIH DMS Policy Guide for the latest updates, including the slides from this session.
For questions, or additional information, please contact us at datamanagement@osu.edu.
Tableau and Surveys Bootcamp (Workshop)
Workshop level: Intermediate
The Research Commons Tableau and Surveys bootcamp follows the Tableau for Research workshops and bootcamps presented earlier this academic year. This workshop will help Ohio State faculty and graduate students:
- Organize and prepare survey data to efficiently and effectively analyze responses.
- Create engaging visuals summarizing demographic survey data;
- Explore strategies to present matrix question responses on one visual;
- Visualize open response or qualitative data.
The workshop content will be delivered live, and one-on-one support will be provided for practice activities and applying the workshop material to your own research data.
Questions? Email the Research Commons at researchcommons@osu.edu
Due to space limitations, this workshop is limited to 15 participants.
Tableau for Research Bootcamp (Workshop)
The Research Commons Tableau for Research Bootcamp introduces Ohio State faculty and graduate students to Tableau, a no-code, drag and drop solution for creating visually engaging and impactful data visualizations. Workshop participants will learn to:
- Navigate the Tableau workspace and develop strategies for locating and critically evaluating freely available data;
- Connect, shape and prepare data for the Tableau workspace;
- Choose the most effective visual for what you are trying to show with the data you’ve collected;
- Describe and demonstrate key concepts, including aggregation and level-of-detail, addressing and partitioning, and when to use continuous versus discrete dates; and
- Apply visualization best practices to create impactful, engaging visualizations.
The workshop content will be delivered live, and one-on-one support will be provided for practice activities and applying the workshop material to your own research data.
Questions? Email the Research Commons at researchcommons@osu.edu
Due to space limitations, this workshop is limited to 15 participants.
Introduction to Data Visualization (Virtual Event)
Join us for a virtual Introduction to Data Visualization workshop. Learn what data visualization is and why it is important. Examples, tips, tools, best practices and other resources will be shared to help you effectively visualize data for presentations, research and more.
Immortal Regiment on Instagram: A case study of analysis of mass data from social networks (Virtual Event)
How can we study visual materials from social media? We will use examples from several case studies related to Russia in order to consider the use of social media posts as a source for anthropologists and sociologists but will concentrate on Immortal Regiment as it is represented on Instagram to see some intersections of the state propaganda and grass-roots level social trends.
About the Speaker:
Ilya Utekhin is an anthropologist working in anthropology of technology, medical anthropology, and in the study of talk-in-interaction. From 1996 to 2022, he taught in the Department of Anthropology, European University at St.Petersburg. He is co-curator of the Virtual Museum of Soviet Everyday Life: Communal Living in Russia, which contains ethnographic materials on on Soviet and post-Soviet urban housing, also reflected in his monograph Essays on the Communal Everyday Life (Moscow 2001, 2004, in Russian). In 2017-20, Ilya was founder and CEO of a news aggregator service that showed two alternative agendas: official Russian media vs independent media. Ilya is the author of a number of documentary films. In Fall 2022, as a Visiting Scholar at Boston University, he worked with the materials of the Maya Deren Collection in Howard Gotlieb Archival Center. His recent book, Visual Anthropology: A Guide to Ethnographic Film (In Russian), is about the history of ethnographic filmmaking. He is a Visiting Scholar at the Robert F. Byrnes Russian and East European Institute during 2023.
Resource Fair: Finding Secondary Data
Ever wondered where to find the perfect data set for your research or instruction? Join us for a resource fair of Ohio State archives, repositories, and centers that provide access to research data.
While registrants enjoy a catered lunch, representatives from each facility will provide short presentations about the data they make available. Afterwards, attendees will have ample time to ask questions and discuss possible uses for the data in their own research or instruction.
Representatives will be available to discuss data from multiple disciplines, including:
- Business
- Social sciences
- Health sciences
- Education
- Geospatial
This event will be held in-person at the Research Commons and is open to graduate student, faculty, and staff researchers from all disciplines.
