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Resource: The Importance of Design Plans for Data Science

Since becoming a Data Fellow at the D-Lab, I have had the opportunity to assist many talented social scientists through the D-Lab’s Consulting service. A regular consulting request is to help with the research design for a new project. These requests are understandable. For empirical researchers, a high-quality research design makes or breaks a research […]

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Resource: Introducing the New Inclusive Pedagogy Toolkit!

Inclusive Pedagogy means designing the learning environment to be meaningful, relevant, and accessible for every student in your course or program. This approach to teaching is demanded by our Georgetown values and supported by a deep, broad, and ever-growing body of research. But how exactly do you do inclusive pedagogy? CNDLS has created the Inclusive […]

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Resource: Data Speculation

I’ve taken the ill-advised approach of using the Coronavirus as a topic to frame the exercises in my computer programming class this semester. I say “ill-advised” because given the impact that COVID has been having on students I’ve been thinking they probably need a way to escape news of the virus by way of writing code, rather […]

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Resource: Howdy Neighbor! Proximity Analysis in R

Proximity analysis is one of the cornerstones of spatial analysis. It refers to the ways in which we use spatial methods to ask “what is happening near here”. It is at the heart of the Tobler’s first law of geography which states “Everything is related but near things are more related.” In practice, proximity analysis […]

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Resource: Digital Fellows’ Guide to Digital Dissertations Update

In response to growing interest towards creating digital dissertations, I recently revised and updated the Digital Fellows’ guide on the topic. I expanded our old page to add information on, what is a digital dissertation, how to begin designing a digital dissertation, resources to help get your project off the ground. Read full post here.