DSS at Pitt

Did you know that in 1969 Pitt was taken to Federal Court for discriminating against female faculty? Want to learn more? @PittLibraries hosts archival materials on the local history of the women’s rights movement. NOW Collection: digital.library.pitt.edu/collection/now…

🗺️💻 Machines Reading Maps: The Future of Historical Cartography as Data. @rumseymapcenter at Stanford. 📍In person and online. 📅 April 20th, 2023 🧑‍🤝‍🧑Open to Everyone. events.stanford.edu/event/MRM-Publ…

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Don't miss our online workshop on the basics of 3D scanning and model editing! Register for "Introduction to 3D Scanning" (April 5, 2023, 1:00pm - 2:30pm) at: pitt.libcal.com/event/10400804 #3dmodeling

Curious about how to incorporate oral history into your research and/or public-facing projects? Don't miss the in-person workshop "Intro to Oral History" (03/30)! Registration: pitt.libcal.com/calendar/today…

Apply for next year's DSS Graduate Student Assistantship! GSAs gain experience in the skills of contemporary digital scholarship while they are embedded in the unit's work and develop their own projects. (deadline Mar 31) library.pitt.edu/dss-gsa

🤓Apply for our Summer Internship! (open to all Pitt grad students) With this student appointment, you can gain experience in the skills of contemporary digital scholarship through project-based work and participation in the unit's operation. Visit: library.pitt.edu/dss-summer-gra…

The @WHCPitt offers a one-semester internship (Digital Atlas Design Internship) for undergrads interested in global history. This internship is perfect for students wanting to create a project using spatial history, GIS, or digital tools and methods. worldhistory.pitt.edu/education/digi…

How can we 'read' the real lives of the past from seemingly bland numerical data? The statistics of the @uscensusbureau are a rich trove of research material and information for data scientists and everyday people! You just need to learn how to read them.

@DSSatPitt #LoveDataWeek is an annual time for libraries to showcase, discuss, and celebrate working with data. 2023 is the @PittTweet Year of Emotional Well-Being, so we're emphasizing healthy learning and professional development! Get the details at lovedatapgh.io

Effective data visualization is vital for communicating your research and making an impact! In this workshop, participants will learn conceptual practices, rules of thumb, and the basics of Tableau Public (a free data visualization tool). Registration: pitt.libcal.com/calendar/today…

This workshop will introduce the field of Digital Humanities (DH). Participants will leave with a working knowledge of DH and resources for teaching, learning, and engaging in the field. TH Jan 19th. 12:00 – 1:30 p.m. Registration: pitt.libcal.com/calendar/today…

3 online workshops to start your semester Command Line Crash Course Jan 17 1-3 pm pitt.libcal.com/calendar/today… Computing Resources and Infrastructure for Research at Pitt Jan 18 12:30-1 pm pitt.libcal.com/calendar/today… Intro to Digital Humanities Jan 19 12-1:30 pm pitt.libcal.com/calendar/today…

Welcome back! While settling for the Spring Semester, don't forget to put the @LoveDataWeek (Feb. 10-17) on your calendar. We’re offering accessible workshops, artistic expressions with data, informative talks, and social mixers about data work. Lineup coming soon!

Choosing your classes for the Spring Semester? This announcement was seen by the DSS team in Posvar 👀

This map shows how far you can travel from each station in Europe in less than 5 hours! 👉🏼 chronotrains-eu.vercel.app

This has come up in my world a lot recently. But many don’t realize this about the region (and in part how unlike most elsewhere in the nation we are).

@librarycongress released three new sets of digitized materials packaged as data, containing 90,000 books, 30,000 images, and 5,000 maps! They were created as part of an initiative that seeks to enable bulk analysis of materials at scale. Link: data.labs.loc.gov

How can we use weather records to better understand climate history? A new #ODHFunded project will develop a prototype for sharing historical climate data. The Digital Humanities Advancement Grant offers up to $75k for early-stage research: neh.gov/grants/odh/dig…