Events

Dave Gottesman, assistant city manager for Rockville, MD, will detail the scope of his project and performance management roles across the city's departments and services—including procurement, information technology, and emergency management—as well his strategic planning and special projects oversight that impacts the city's 70,000 residents.

Join an open discussion on the ongoing uncertainty in the region in and around Iran and to connect with others who share your concerns. Light refreshments appropriate to breaking fast provided.

Join Johns Hopkins Data Services for this workshop to efficiently clean data in R. This session will give an overview of the concepts of data cleaning and go into great detail with tidyr package. You will need to have either some basic knowledge about using R or have previously attended Data Services' "Introduction to R for Absolute Beginners" workshop in order to take this one.

This beginner-to-intermediate workshop is part one of a two-part workshop series on the pandas library, a popular Python library for data cleaning, data wrangling, and data analysis. Participants in this interactive class will use Jupyter Notebooks software and Python code to import, understand, and prepare a dataset for further analysis or visualization.

Julianne Perretta, executive director of the L.A.D. Academy, will facilitate a discussion of the article "The illusion of learning: Turning studying into thinking" for the Center for Teaching Excellence and Innovation's next Education Journal Club.

Visualizing data is critical for both understanding the meaning and patterns hidden in your data as well as communicating it to an audience. This workshop by Johns Hopkins Data Services serves as an introduction to using R's data visualization tools and techniques. Some prior experience in R is required.

Johns Hopkins' Common Question invites you to a reception and panel discussion about the health of media in the U.S.

This advanced StoryMap workshop is designed for users who are already familiar with the basics of ArcGIS StoryMaps. The aim will be to enhance skills learned during the previous "Introduction to StoryMaps" workshop.

Andrew Jewett, coauthor of the forthcoming book Johns Hopkins: The First 150 Years, will trace the fraught decades of 1936 to 1971 and the decisions made by five presidents of Johns Hopkins and other top administrators that still reverberate today