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Digital Skills Workshops for PhD Students (UNIGE and Geneva Graduate Institute)

nodegoat Clinic: Bring Your Own Data / Sources / Research Questions

 DS45 - nodegoat Clinic: Bring Your Own Data / Sources / Research Questions

 Pim van Bree and Geert Kessels (LAB1100)

 

 

8 November 2024, 10:00-17:00, Room S12

This workshop will focus on the usage of nodegoat, which is specifically developed as a data management, network analysis, and visualisation environment for research projects in the humanities

In this clinic you will learn how to design a research data workflow that works for your research project. Whether you are gathering a small set of data or a large set of data, it is important that you store and manage this data properly so you can use your data to its full potential. The web based research environment 'nodegoat' (https://nodegoat.net) is well suited to create a custom-built research environment that can host your data and that you can use to visualise and analyse your data.

Clinic programme:

 

10:00 Introduction to nodegoat
11:00 Who are you and what are your sources / data / research questions
11:30 Break
11:45 Learn how to enter data into nodegoat
13:00 Lunch
14:00 Learn how to conceptualise a data model
14:30 Implementing a data model in nodegoat
15:00 Enter data in your data model
15:30 Break
15:45 Filter / Visualisations / Conditions
16:15 Import / Export
16:30 Linked Data connections / Network Analysis
17:00 End of the clinic

 

Request a nodegoat account before the clinic via https://nodegoat.net/requestaccount 

LAB1100 is a research and development firm established in 2011 by Pim van Bree and Geert Kessels. LAB1100 brings together skills in new media, history, and software development. Working together with universities, research institutes, and museums, LAB1100 has built the digital research platform nodegoat and produces interactive data visualisations.

 

PhD students of the Graduate Institute will be informed of each workshop by email.  For any questions regarding registration to the workshop, please contact: emma.cranfield@graduateinstitute.ch 

nodegoat Workshop: Social Network Analysis, Friday, 7 June, 10:00-13:00, online

 DS44 - nodegoat Workshop: Social Network Analysis
 Pim van Bree and Geert Kessels (LAB1100)

 

 

7 June 2024, 10:00-13:00, online

This workshop will focus on the usage of nodegoat, which is specifically developed as a data management, network analysis, and visualisation environment for research projects in the humanities

nodegoat Workshop: Social Network Analysis, Friday, 7 June, 10:00-13:00, online

Social Network Analysis can reveal brokers in your data that have remained unknown. By analysing various measures of centrality (e.g. degree centrality and betweenness centrality) you can learn more about the position of any node within your network. We will use the web based research environment 'nodegoat' (https://nodegoat.net) to discuss and apply various measures of centrality and show you how you can make use of these approaches in your own research project.

Workshop Programme:

10:00 Introduction to network analysis in nodegoat
10:30 Who are you and what is your research question
10:45 Learn how to enter relational data in nodegoat
11:30 Break
11:45 Learn how to perform network analysis in nodegoat
12:30 Learn how to implement a relational data model in your nodegoat environment
13:00 End of the workshop

Request a nodegoat account before the workshop via https://nodegoat.net/requestaccount 

LAB1100 is a research and development firm established in 2011 by Pim van Bree and Geert Kessels. LAB1100 brings together skills in new media, history, and software development. Working together with universities, research institutes, and museums, LAB1100 has built the digital research platform nodegoat and produces interactive data visualisations.

 

PhD students of the Graduate Institute will be informed of each workshop by email.  For any questions regarding registration to the workshop, please contact: emma.cranfield@graduateinstitute.ch 

 

nodegoat Workshop: Mapping Spatial Data

 DS43 - nodegoat Workshop: Mapping Spatial Data
 Pim van Bree and Geert Kessels (LAB1100)

 

 

6 June 2024, 10:00-13:00, online

This workshop will focus on the usage of nodegoat, which is specifically developed as a data management, network analysis, and visualisation environment for research projects in the humanities.

Mapping Spatial Data, Thursday, 6 June, 10:00-13:00, online

Location data forms an integral part of any research project. This workshop will teach you how to properly store any spatial data and how to best make use of it in your project. Using the web based research environment 'nodegoat' (https://nodegoat.net) we will cover multiple strategies on how to store your spatial data and will show you how this data can add value to your project.

Workshop Programme:

10:00 Introduction to mapping spatial data in nodegoat
10:30 Who are you and what is your research question
10:45 Learn how to enter geographical data in nodegoat
11:30 Break
11:45 Learn how to enter biographical data in nodegoat
12:30 Learn how to implement a gazetteer in your nodegoat environment
13:00 End of the workshop

Request a nodegoat account before the workshop via https://nodegoat.net/requestaccount 

LAB1100 is a research and development firm established in 2011 by Pim van Bree and Geert Kessels. LAB1100 brings together skills in new media, history, and software development. Working together with universities, research institutes, and museums, LAB1100 has built the digital research platform nodegoat and produces interactive data visualisations.

 

PhD students of the Graduate Institute will be informed of each workshop by email.  For any questions regarding registration to the workshop, please contact: emma.cranfield@graduateinstitute.ch 

Nodegoat: a web-based research environment for the humanities - Mondays, 30 May, 13, 20, 27 June, 14:00-17:00, online

DS29 -> DS32 - Nodegoat: a web-based research environment for the humanities
Pim van Bree and Geert Kessels (LAB1100)

This workshop series will focus on the usage of nodegoat, which is specifically developed as a data management, network analysis, and visualisation environment for research projects in the humanities.

You will learn how to use nodegoat to build your own data model, how to create and import datasets, and how to explore and analyse your data by means of spatial and temporal visualisations. 

The first two sessions will give a general introduction to the usage of nodegoat:
 
DS29 - Nodegoat: Data Modelling, Monday 30 May, 14:00-17:00, online

After a brief introduction to nodegoat, we will implement a data model in your own nodegoat environment. Once the data model is up and running, we will manually enter a small amount of data to evaluate your data model. If you do not have a nodegoat account yet, please request an account via https://nodegoat.net/requestaccount.

DS30 - Nodegoat: Importing Data, Monday, 13 June, 14:00-17:00, online

In this session, we will import CSV files with spatial data, biographical data, and correspondence data. After the import, we will explore spatial and temporal filters and visualisations. These two first sessions will set you up with a nodegoat environment that contains a data model and a relational dataset. These elements are required in order to follow along in sessions 3 and session 4. 

 

The final two sessions cover more advanced features of nodegoat:
Participants who do not have a configured nodegoat research environment are required to join sessions 1 and 2 in order to participate in sessions 3 and 4.
Participants who are already using a nodegoat environment for their research project may join sessions 3 and 4, without attending sessions 1 and 2.

 

DS31 - Nodegoat: Advanced Dating features, Monday, 20 June, 14:00-17:00, online

In this session, we will explore the various options offered by the Chronology Statements feature of nodegoat. You will learn how to store, filter, and visualise complex and vague dates. Exemplary use cases involve: a letter was sent in the summer of 1671, a person was employed two years after their graduation, or visualise books published in the 'romantic era'.

DS32 - Nodegoat: Data Reconciliation, Monday, 27 June, 14:00-17:00, online

This session will cover the usage of Reconciliation Processes. You will learn how to reconcile heterogeneous datasets in order to establish references between Objects. As an example, we will reconcile a list of spatial statements with full-text transcriptions of letters. This process will give a spatial overview of the geographical scope covered by the letters.

 

 

LAB1100 is a research and development firm established in 2011 by Pim van Bree and Geert Kessels. LAB1100 brings together skills in new media, history, and software development. Working together with universities, research institutes, and museums, LAB1100 has built the digital research platform nodegoat and produces interactive data visualisations.

 

PhD students of the Graduate Institute will be informed of each workshop by email.  For any questions regarding registration to the workshop, please contact: emma.cranfield@graduateinstitute.ch