Main Library

Every Wednesday from 1:30 – 3:00 PM, students and faculty are welcome to attend data consultation walk-ins hosted in both the Main Library, Room 300 (Digi Lab) and the McBay Science Library, Room 207. 

Meagan Duever, GIS Librarian at UGA, will be presenting a workshop on how to get started with basic mapmaking using latitude and longitude data.

Learn how to use R for text analysis in this workshop series! This second installment will cover how to perform sentiment analysis and topic modeling. Familiarity with basic R is encouraged but not required. Attendees should come with R (www.r-project.org) and RStudio (www.posit.co/download/rstudio-desktop) pre-installed on their computers.

Learn how to use R for text analysis in this workshop series! The first installment will cover the basics of how to process outside texts and perform analyses of word and part-of-speech frequency. Familiarity with basic R is encouraged but not required. Attendees should come with R (www.r-project.org) and RStudio (www.posit.co/download/rstudio-desktop) pre-installed on their computers.

This workshop will introduce participants to processing textual data with Python, focusing on cleaning and editing texts to make them suitable for further analysis. Familiarity with basic Python is encouraged, but not required. Participants will need to have Python 3.9+ and Jupyter notebooks installed to follow along.

This workshop will introduce participants to processing textual data with Python, focusing on cleaning and editing texts to make them suitable for further analysis. Familiarity with basic Python is encouraged, but not required. Participants will need to have Python 3.9+ and Jupyter notebooks installed to follow along. Jupyter notebooks can be installed by following this link: https://jupyter.org/install 

As part of the Spotlight on the Arts Festival, the University of Georgia Press will host its annual book sale for students, faculty, and staff on the Main Library's front lawn on November 15-16, from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. each day. A wide variety of new and backlist titles will be available for purchase at a special Spotlight discount of 50% off. Stop by and browse available titles, learn more about the UGA Press, our people and our authors, and find out about exciting new initiatives from the Press and our partners.

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This two-part workshop will get you started with data visualization using Ggplot. Taught by DigiLab graduate assistant Keiko Bridwell.

This two-part workshop will get you started with data visualization using Ggplot. Taught by DigiLab graduate assistant Keiko Bridwell.

ChatGPT made its début less than a year ago: how are humanists responding to the bot? Join Dr. Julia Burkhardt, Professor of Medieval History at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich and a participant in the UGA-LMU Faculty Research Exchange Program, in exploring this question with a group of UGA faculty who have been thinking deeply about artificial intelligence and education: Elizabeth Davis (English), Jeremy Davis (Philosophy), Katie Ireland (Libraries and Digital Humanities), Kevin Jones (History), and Montgomery Wolf (History).