Overview

Are you having a hard time finding data for your project? Have you been thinking about turning to manual data collection (such as archival visits, surveys, and health record transcription) or web scraping to get the data you need?

In this virtual workshop, co-hosted by staff from the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library and the Digital Humanities Lab (DHLab), participants will learn about four advanced data collection methods: manual data collection, web scraping, data requests, and application programming interfaces (APIs). In considering the benefits and drawbacks of these methods, participants also will learn how to select the best method of data collection for their own project goals.

All participants are welcome at this session, regardless of data expertise or prior experience with this topic.

Workshop Organizers

Gavi Levy Haskell the Research Technology Lead in Computational Methods and Data.

Kaitlin Throgmorton is the Data Librarian for the Health Sciences at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library.

Vermetha Polite is a Library Services Assistant at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library.

Workshop Details

Time:
Wednesday, November 13, 2024
10-11 a.m. EST

Location:
Online

Registration

All Yale students, faculty, and staff are welcome to attend! Please note that registration is required; to sign up, please visit the registration page for the workshop.

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