Digital Scholarship Workshop Series at the Kelvin Smith Library

In addition to a wide variety of in-person, hands-on, digital scholarship workshops at the Kelvin Smith Library, I provide a growing set of self-guided, interactive tutorials using python notebooks or RStudio.

Please reach out with any questions or technical problems to David Beales, Digital Scholarship Partner, rdb104@case.edu.

Here is a list of current and upcoming online resources.

• Web Scraping with Python

  https://librarybeales.github.io/Web-Scraping/

  Web scraping is a technique used to collect information from the internet and save it so it can be analyzed as needed. This course will walk you through using several different strategies and several different python libraries to scrape data from the web and analyze it.

• Exploratory Data Analysis with Python

  https://librarybeales.github.io/Exploratory_Data_Analysis/

  Exploratory Data Analysis, commonly called EDA, is a foundational piece of the data science and research process. This tutorial will walk you through the process of exploring a found dataset using python and the pandas library.

• Accessing Census Data in R

  https://librarybeales.github.io/Census_R/ COMING SOON!

R has powerful packages for exploring, accessing and visaulizing the excellent data provided by the US Census. This course is a step-by-step example of the process of conencting to the Census Data, finding relevant information, and visualizing that data.

• Mapping Census Data in R

  https://librarybeales.github.io/Map_Census_R/

  COMING SOON!

• Intro to Text Analysis with Python

  https://librarybeales.github.io/PLACEHOLDER/

  COMING SOON!

• Intro to Text Analysis with R and TidyText

  https://librarybeales.github.io/PLACEHOLDER/

  COMING SOON!

• Graphing Data with Python and the Plotly Library

  https://librarybeales.github.io/PLACEHOLDER/

  COMING SOON!

Digital Workshop Series

You can find the complete list of upcoming in-person Digital Scholarship Workshops on the CWRU Campus Groups website under the Kelvin Smith Library Group. Digital Scholarship Workshop Series at KSL

Some notes on Cloud Patforms Constellate and Binder

There are two cloud platforms that you may use to lauch these lessons in the cloud. Most lessons will have launch buttons for both options for each lesson in the workshop.

Constellate is available to Case Western students, staff, and faculty. To use Constellate you will have to create a JSTOR login that is separate from your University login. Instructions for that are here: Making a Constellate Account.

If you are not part of Case you can launch these tutorials using the Launch Binder button.

Any changes you make or work you complete in Binder will be deleted when closing the tab or window. You can, however, download a copy of file you’ve been working in before closing the browser.