Welcome!
Welcome to the Perkins Data and GIS blog! Our goal is to highlight Duke research, collections, policies, and tools surrounding empirical data and digital maps of interest to the research community....
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Rolling with R in 2011
Interest in the open source statistical package R has grown over the last few years as researchers discover its powerful graphic capabilities, a suite of packages that extend its functionality, and its...
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Wrangle, Refine, and Represent
Data visualization and data management represented the core themes of the 2011 Computer Assisted Reporting (CAR) Conference that met in Raleigh from February 24-27. Bringing together journalists,...
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Swimming in a Sea of Data
This post comes from Erika Kociolek, a second year Master in Environmental Management student at the Nicholas School. The Data and GIS staff want to congratulate Erika on successfully defending her...
View ArticleData and GIS Winter Newsletter 2012
Data driven teaching and research at Duke keeps growing and Perkins Data and GIS continues to increase support for researchers and classes employing data, GIS, and data visualization tools. Whether...
View ArticleData and GIS Back to School – Fall 2012
Visualize your data, analyze your results, map your statistics, and find the data you need! Come visit us in Perkins 226 (second floor Perkins) for a consultation or contact us online (email:...
View ArticleData and GIS Spring Semester News
New workshops for Spring 2013 http://library.duke.edu/data/news/index.html Clean your data with Google Refine. Use digital maps to explore the present and past. Analyze data with R or Stata....
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Data and GIS
Data and GIS and Perkins Libraries are happy to sponsor DataFest 2013 (March 22-24, 2013). In its second year, DataFest “is a data analysis competition where teams of up to five undergraduates have a...
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Data Management Planning Advice – DMPTool @ Duke
Data and GIS Services is happy to announce the launch of new service designed to provide detailed data management planning help online. As an increasing number of granting agencies require a data...
View ArticleData and GIS Fall 2013 Newsletter
Analyze, discover, manage, map, and visualize your data with Duke Libraries Data and GIS Services. Our team of five consultants provides a broad range of support in areas ranging from data analysis,...
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Data and GIS Services Spring 2014 Workshop Series
Explore network analysis, text mining, online mapping, data visualization, and statistics in our spring 2014 workshop series. Our workshops provide a chance to explore new tools or refresh your memory...
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Scaling Support: Designing Data for a Growing Statistics Program
How do you support 57,860 online students learning R and statistics ? Late last fall, Data and GIS Services shared this challenge with Professor Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel and the staff of CIT as we sought...
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Top 10 List – Data and GIS Edition
As we begin our summer in Data and GIS Services, we spend this post reflecting back on some of the services, software, and tools that made data work this spring more productive and more visible. We...
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Meet Data and Visualization Services
The fall of 2014 marks the completion of the first five years of the libraries’ Data and GIS Services Department. In 2009, when Mark Thomas and I formed the department, the name accurately reflected...
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New Year- New Data and Visualization Lab!
Data and Visualization Services is happy to announce our new Data and Visualization Lab in Duke Libraries new Edge research space. Located on the first floor of the Bostock Library, the Brandaleone...
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DataFest 2015 @ the Edge
Duke Libraries are happy to host the American Statistical Association’s Data Fest Competition the weekend of March 20-22nd. In its fourth year at Duke, DataFest brings teams of students from across...
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DVS Fall Workshops
Data and Visualization Services is happy to announce its Fall 2015 Workshop Series. With a range of workshops covering basic data skills to data visualization, we have a wide range of courses for...
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Data and Visualization Spring 2016 Workshops
SPRING 2016: Data and Visualization Workshops Interested in getting started in data driven research or exploring a new approach to working with research data? Data and Visualization Services’ spring...
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Data Fest 2016 Workshop Series
Duke Libraries are happy to welcome the 2016 ASA DataFest to the Edge on April 1-3rd. As part of DataFest 2016, the Edge is hosting five DataFest related workshops designed to help teams and others...
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Fall 2016 DVS Workshop Series
Data and Visualization Services is happy to announce its Fall 2016 Workshop Series. Learn new ways of enhancing your research with a wide range of data driven research methods, data tools, and data...
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