Upcoming Events

Learn how to enable data collection instruments as surveys and to distribute surveys to participants.

The WashU Libraries Book Club explores both fiction and non-fiction titles, with selections focusing on history, medicine, travel, adventure, rare books and literature. January's selection is "Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage" by Alfred Lansing.

Learn to set up a longitudinal project and use the scheduling and calendar tools.

First Fridays @ Becker are back in virtual format! On the first Friday of each month, join us on Zoom to see themed picks from the library's renowned archival and rare book collections. February's theme is Animals.

This Love Data Week lecture will introduce content analysis and discuss its utility in sociological research. It will describe data collection and analysis approaches—with emphasis on the coding process. Drawing from contemporary research, this talk will also address how qualitative data analysis software (e.g., AtlasTI) can aid researchers in identifying key patterns in texts.

Social Explorer provides demographic data from the Census and other sources. Users can access, analyze, and visualize data in the peasy-to-use platform. In this workshop you will learn to access, use, and download data.

In this introduction to LabArchives, WashU’s electronic lab notebook platform, learn how to quickly and easily create an electronic lab notebook to manage your research data securely online.

Python is a popular programming language for software development and data analysis. This workshop will demonstrate basic data analysis using Python. Popular Python libraries useful for data exploration, manipulation and graphing on data frames will be introduced.

The Bloomberg Terminal brings together real-time data on every market, breaking news, in-depth research, powerful analytics, communications tools and world-class execution capabilities. In this demonstration you will hear the tool described and see analysis in action.

The Federal Reserve Economic Data Service (FRED), maintained by the St. Louis Federal Reserve, provides access to over 750,000 financial and economic data series across 100 public and proprietary data sources. This presentation will give the history of FRED, along with features, and how FRED can be used for storytelling and skill building.

Tableau is a data analysis and visualization tool used to help people see, understand, and make decisions with data. In this two-hour workshop, participants will learn to add data, manipulate it, and create a dashboard to display it.

MDClone is a free, secure, self-service platform for building queries and downloading computationally derived (“synthetic”) data from the Institute for Informatics (I2) research data core (RDC). This webinar will include a demonstration of creating a query to obtain synthetic data.

The workshop will provide an introduction to using R packages for visualization of COVID-19 data. Participants will have the opportunity to learn about the structure of publicly available COVID-19 data and explore methods to visualize the data with an aim to understand the disease epidemiology.

Join us for a Love Data Week virtual keynote address from Carrie D. Wolinetz, PhD, associate director for science policy at the National Institutes of Health.

The WashU Libraries Book Club explores both fiction and non-fiction titles, with selections focusing on history, medicine, travel, adventure, rare books and literature. February's selection is "Fever" by Mary Beth Keane.

Join us on Zoom for the 77th Historia Medica Lecture, given by James L. Nolan, Jr., PhD. 

First Fridays @ Becker are back in virtual format! On the first Friday of each month, join us on Zoom to see themed picks from the library's renowned archival and rare book collections. March's theme is Vaccines.

The WashU Libraries Book Club explores both fiction and non-fiction titles, with selections focusing on history, medicine, travel, adventure, rare books and literature. March's selection is "Marcel’s Letters: A Font and the Search for One Man’s Fate" by Carolyn Porter.

Join us on Zoom for the 78th Historia Medica Lecture, given by Marquis Berrey, PhD. 

First Fridays @ Becker are back in virtual format! On the first Friday of each month, join us on Zoom to see themed picks from the library's renowned archival and rare book collections. April's theme is Botanical / Herbal Books.

Join us on Zoom for the 79th Historia Medica Lecture, given by Susan L. Burns, PhD. 

The WashU Libraries Book Club explores both fiction and non-fiction titles, with selections focusing on history, medicine, travel, adventure, rare books and literature. April's selection is "People of the Book" by Geraldine Brooks.

First Fridays @ Becker are back in virtual format! On the first Friday of each month, join us on Zoom to see themed picks from the library's renowned archival and rare book collections. May's theme is Preservation.

First Fridays @ Becker are back in virtual format! On the first Friday of each month, join us on Zoom to see themed picks from the library's renowned archival and rare book collections. June's theme is Brain Awareness Month.

First Fridays @ Becker are back in virtual format! On the first Friday of each month, join us on Zoom to see themed picks from the library's renowned archival and rare book collections. July's theme is Illustrative / Photographic Techniques.

First Fridays @ Becker are back in virtual format! On the first Friday of each month, join us on Zoom to see themed picks from the library's renowned archival and rare book collections. August's theme is Maps, Places, and Postcards.

First Fridays @ Becker are back in virtual format! On the first Friday of each month, join us on Zoom to see themed picks from the library's renowned archival and rare book collections. September's theme is WU Dental School.