On Wednesday, January 23rd, at noon. the Ball State University Digital Scholarship Lab hosted its first Digital Feed of the spring 2019 semester. The lunch and talk were co-sponsored by the Sponsored Projects Administration and they also served as part of this year’s SPA Colloquia Series. The event took place in the Schwartz Digital Complex…
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On Wednesday, December 5, 2018 at noon, the Digital Scholarship Lab hosted a presentation by Matt Nowlin in the Architecture Building, Room 004 on SAVI, a community planning and assessment tool developed by the POLIS Center at IUPUI. SAVI mobilizes data from many sources to power spatially-based analytical tools and supports community-centered social research in…
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On Monday, October 22, 2018, the Digital Scholarship Lab hosted Jeff Berg’s Digital Feed talk, “The Future of User Experience.” Berg, senior Digital Designer for Arup, an international urban planning, design and architecture firm, has unique experience employing coding and design to create engaging end-user experiences for cultural, government and commercial entities around the world.…
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At noon on Wednesday, September 19th, 2018 and again on Thursday, September 20th, Shaoen Wu, Associate Professor of Computer Science at Ball State University, presented on the topic “Big Data and Smart Computing” in the Schwartz Digital Complex in Bracken Library. Wu, an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Ball State, introduced Ball State’s new…
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On Tuesday April 17, 2018, Matthias Raess discussed his dissertation research, which employs R, a coding language and environment for statistical computing and graphics, to analyze language use in data extracted from German Twitter. He specializes in sociolinguistics/social media data mining, the influence of media on language, statistics (especially with R), and quantitative research. In…
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Digital Scholarship Lab Workshop: Text Analysis and Data Visualization using R Holmes Finch and Matthias Raess Thursday, March 22, 2018, 2-5 PM Schwartz Complex, Bracken Library 105E Ball State’s Digital Scholarship Lab will host a workshop on doing text analysis (and other forms of data visualization) with R. R is a powerful statistical software that…
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On Thursday, February 22, 2018 at 12:15 – 1:30 PM, the DSL hosted a Digital Feed by Joseph J. Kerski, PhD GISP, Education Manager for Esri titled, “Telling Your Story with Story Maps: How to Use and Create Multimedia Web Maps for Use in Instruction and Research”. The event brought together scholars, researchers and graduate students from…
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On January 25, 2018, the Digital Scholarship Lab held its first Digital Feed of the year. The topic of the feed was on “Applications of 3D Simulation, Virtual and Augmented Reality in Scholarship” with John Fillwalk & the IDIA Lab staff. John Fillwalk, Director of BSU’s Institute for Digital Intermedia Arts (IDIA) showcased virtual and…
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Patricia Carbajales-Dale, Co-Director of the Center of Excellences and manager of the daily operations of the Geospatial Technology center at Clemson University, gave a talk titled, “GIS for Good: Serving Communities Through Education,” on November 15, 2017. She shared her experiences partnering with the United Nations to create a service learning class focused on GIS.…
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On November 15, 2017, the Digital Scholarship Lab, in collaboration with Ball State University Libraries, hosted a Digital Feed with Patricia Carbajales-Dale to mark GIS Day 2017. Carbajales-Dale, the Co-Director of the Center of Excellences at Clemson University and manager of the daily operations of the Clemson Center for Geospatial Technologies, spoke on “Geospatial Support Services: A…
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