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Love Data Week 2021 — The U.S. Census: Then, Now, and Moving Forward

Thursday, February 11, 2021

11:00am – Noon

Virtual via Zoom

Workshop Overview

The Founding Fathers laid out an ambitious plan: count every person in the United States to determine proportional representation in Congress. The U.S. Census has since evolved to expand its scope, collecting data to uncover community needs, subsequently influencing how these needs can best be met.

Join us in exploring the U.S. Census’ beginnings, its current charge and intent, and the challenges it faces in contemporary society. We will also spend time experimenting with tools useful for socio-demographic research involving US Census resources — specifically, extracting and customizing data from Data.Census.gov and visualizing data with Social Explorer.

Other Love Data Week Virtual Activities

February 8 – 12Data Haiku Contest
Write a haiku about data! Your haiku must be related to data in some way (e.g., data management, processing, sharing, preservation, reuse, etc.).

February 8, 2pm – 3pmBringing Order to Qualitative Madness with ATLAS.ti
If you're in the middle of a qualitative research project, you're probably juggling dozens of documents that need to be coded. At this workshop, you will learn how to use ATLAS.ti to bring order to the chaos of your qualitative research project.

February 9, 2pm – 3pmNVivo for Beginners
If you're in the middle of a qualitative research project, you're probably juggling dozens of documents that need to be coded. Learn how to use NVivo to bring order to the chaos of your qualitative research project.

February 10, 11am – NoonZoom Drop-In: Managing Your Personal Data
Want to better manage your documents, photos, and other personal files? Stop by this virtual drop-in session, and we’ll go over how to help keep your information more organized and easily findable! Note: this workshop is offered again at 3pm.

February 10, 3pm – 4pmZoom Drop-In: Managing Your Personal Data
Want to better manage your documents, photos, and other personal files? Stop by this virtual drop-in session, and we’ll go over how to help keep your information more organized and easily findable!

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