Willson Center for Humanities and Arts

Learn about the technology and support available in the DigiLab (https://digi.uga.edu), UGA's hub for individual and collaborative projects in the digital humanities.

No registration necessary for this in-person session. For more workshops, see our site (https://guides.libs.uga.edu/grad2022)

Learn about the technology and support available in the DigiLab (https://digi.uga.edu), UGA's hub for individual and collaborative projects in the digital humanities.

Register to receive link to this online session. For more workshops, see our site (https://guides.libs.uga.edu/grad2022)

   "‘We had not thus trespassed against your consent’: The Blackamoor Poems by Henry Rainold and Henry King (1630s-1650s)."

Have you ever heard a sound that evokes a memory or an emotion? Listened to something that pulls you back to a particular place and time, a memory, a feeling? Sounds are an integral part of our knowing and being in the world, and yet they are often overlooked or flattened into textual representations in traditional research. Sonic inquiry is an interdisciplinary method of research that takes up skills and traditions from geography, anthropology, ethnography, and the arts.

Using StoryMapsJS, Monica Berg will present her historical research into the early years of tourism in Yellowstone National Park. She will take us back to the late nineteenth century, showing us what a typical tourist at this time could find themselves seeing and doing on a trip out West.  

Learn about ORCid, Google Scholar, Researchgate.net, and building your own website!

LaTeX provides a way to typeset documents in beautiful, clean ways. It can be used to create CVs, format journals, or input mathematics and tables of contents into documents. We will show you how to find LaTeX templates, input text, and handle common problems. To save time, create an Overleaf account before the workshop.

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Do you know how to enter data into Excel, but have trouble organizing it to create tables and graphs? Learn how to use Excel's Pivot Table function, which allows you to quickly summarize your results and easily break them down into categories

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Part of the Libraries' Spring into Research workshop series (https://guides.libs.uga.edu/SIR2022).

Join our workshop to learn how to use some of the most useful Excel formulas for interpreting your data. Topics include how to count cells with specific content, how to find cells that match a string of text, and how to write if-then statements. 

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Part of the Libraries' Spring into Research workshop series (https://guides.libs.uga.edu/SIR2022).

This workshop will show you how to create a basic webmap using the qgis2web plugin, that you can further customize and host using GitHub pages or another web hosting service. Some GIS experience necessary (experience gained through a prior class or workshop).

Want to follow along? Download and install the Long Term Release (LTR) version of QGIS before the workshop https://www.qgis.org/en/site/forusers/download.html