Douglass Day Transcribe-a-thon: Help Transcribe the Letters of Frederick Douglass
Date: Wednesday, February 14th
Time: 12:00pm - 3:00pm
Location: DSL Computer Classroom & Flex Space
Registration is encouraged but not required:
https://bookings.lib.msu.edu/event/11753835
"Without a struggle, there can be no progress.” - Frederick Douglass
Participate in a transcribe-a-thon that brings together thousands of participants at more than one hundred simultaneous events around the world. Students, teachers, and community members will help to transcribe an unprecedented collection of digitized papers left by Frederick Douglass. These papers have been digitized and made available through collaborations with the Library of Congress and the ByThePeople platform.
The transcribe-a-thon will be streamed live on YouTube in the DSL Flexspace and Classroom. The transcribing will be done on Crowd.loc.gov, a citizen science platform led by the Library of Congress. Douglass Day invites people from all backgrounds to join in this effort to make Douglass’s correspondence more widely accessible and searchable.
This event is being co-sponsored by DH@MSU and the Libraries for "Douglass Day and "Love Data Week."
Cookies, Coding, and Conversation
Date: Wednesday, February 14th
Time: 1:30pm - 3:00pm
Registration required. Please contact Susan Richter at srichter@msu.edu for more information.
For Love Data Week, Cookies, Coding, and Conversation will have a data trivia game. Participants will be quizzed on knowledge of MSU data, MSU acronyms, MSU fun facts, and statistics. Prizes will be given to winners in each category and overall winner. We will serve cookies and drinks.
Visualizing Data in Flourish
Date: Wednesday, February 14th
Time: 4:00pm - 5:30pm
Location: DSL Computer Classroom
Learn how to use the free data visualization application Flourish to explore data and make maps.
Ask a Business Librarian About Data
Date: Thursday, February 15th
Time: 10:00am - 11:30am & 2:00pm - 3:30pm
Location: E104 Conference Room, Eppley Center, Broad College of Business
What questions do you have about finding business data? Drop in for a 15 minute consultation with a Business Librarian to get the ball rolling!
Learn Text Analysis with Python:
A Case Study with Fredrick Douglass' Writings
Date: Friday, February 16th
Time: 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Location: Virtual
Register here to receive Zoom link:
https://bookings.lib.msu.edu/event/11764930
“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.” - Frederick Douglass
Building upon the Douglass Day Transcribe-a-thon, this workshop asks the logical next question: what do we do with all of this text data? Participants will analyze the previously transcripted works of Frederick Douglass to understand the fundamentals of both python and computational text analysis.
No python experience is required. All materials necessary will be provided, no installation or downloads are required.