Upcoming Events: Play With Your Data! and Collaborating With Strangers

There are two upcoming events that we think will be of interest to visitors to DMDH.org:

Play With Your Data!
February 13th, 12:30-2:00, Simpson Center Collaboration Lab, 218D

If you want to test out digital humanities tools, then this is the event is your chance. Come to the Simpson Center's new collaboration space to experiment with a variety of text and content analysis and visualization platforms. Experiment with organizing your data, or learn about ways to clean large data sets. Don't worry if you feel like you don't have a data set yet — we'll have practice data that you can play with, in a variety of tools, including MIT's Simile Exhibit, IBM's ManyEyes, Gephi, and more!
No prior programming experience necessary.

Collaborating With Strangers
February 19th, 2:00-4:00, Allen Library Research Commons

Looking for a way to connect with others on campus involved in digital scholarship?  Interested in learning about the skills and assets that exist on this topic on campus?

Collaborating with Strangers workshops connect UW students, faculty and researchers during 3-minute speed meetings where participants exchange and generate ideas and build new foundations to start or improve upon research projects. It might otherwise take you years to meet the people you’ll connect with during one-on-one…