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Feb 5, 2026

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Spring 2026 Data Club recap: Tips on how to avoid repetitive tasks in R. Data Club, provided by the Libraries' Research Data Services, offers strategic lessons and a supportive meeting space for the Columbia community to learn, share, and implement tools for data-driven projects.

Jan 29, 2026

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Spring 2026 Data Club recap: Tips for working with large datasets in R. Data Club, provided by the Libraries' Research Data Services, offers strategic lessons and a supportive meeting space for the Columbia community to learn, share, and implement tools for data-driven projects.

Jan 28, 2026

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Spring 2026 Data Club recap: Learn how to structure a research project with uv. Data Club, provided by the Libraries' Research Data Services, offers strategic lessons and a supportive meeting space for the Columbia community to learn, share, and implement tools for data-driven projects.

Oct 2, 2025

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Fall 2025 Data Club recap: A rapid refresher on the basics of Python programming language followed by an introduction to Proquest’s TDM Studio tool.

Sep 18, 2025

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Fall 2025 Data Club recap: A tour of working with research data, led by Data Services Librarian Wei Yin, and a preview of upcoming Data Club meetings.

Sep 2, 2025

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Hosted by the Libraries' Research Data Services experts, Data Club returns with a series of meetings that will cover a broad range of topics, including open source GIS and large datasets in R.

Jun 6, 2025

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Research Data Services resource spotlight: ProQuest announces that the popular text-mining environment, TDM Studio, now includes a beta feature that allows users to integrate GPT models into their R or Python workbench notebooks.

Mar 18, 2025

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The Libraries recently acquired 12 full-text corpus datasets, including the comprehensive Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA), which will help researchers across many disciplines to understand how language is and has been used around the world.

Mar 5, 2025

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Spring 2025 Data Club recap: Begin learning Polars, an alternative data analysis Python library to pandas, how Polars is similar to and different from pandas, and why it is an appealing choice in 2025 for extract-transform-load (ETL) operations.

Feb 19, 2025

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Spring 2025 Data Club recap: A look at using SQL and NoSQL databases in Python with pandas.

Feb 6, 2025

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Spring 2025 Data Club recap: A discussion of project management and how to use Git with VS code.

Dec 4, 2024

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Research Data Services resource spotlight: Newly-purchased datasets from Dave Leip include “United States Presidential Election Results” and “U.S. Presidential Primary Election Results for the Republican Party and Democratic Party.”

Nov 26, 2024

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Fall 2024 Data Club recap: An exploration of how to do lightning-fast data analysis in an Observable notebook.

Nov 12, 2024

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Research Data Services resource spotlight: The University of Florida Election Lab Data Resources is a new resource that presents precinct-level data for U.S. national state and local elections for recent election years (2010-present).

Nov 7, 2024

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Fall 2024 Data Club recap: How to translate knowledge of the Observable workflow into generating Jamstack websites.

Nov 2, 2024

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Fall 2024 Data Club recap: An instructional video on how to install Observable Framework to make data-driven web apps, like dashboards.

Oct 10, 2024

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Fall 2025 Data Club recap: An exploration of how to make web maps with Leaflet.

Sep 26, 2024

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Fall 2024 Data Club recap: With a general sense of how to use JavaScript from a prior session, particularly in an Observable environment, participants worked with their own data in their Observable notebooks.

Sep 12, 2024

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Fall 2024 Data Club recap: Data Club returned in 2024 with a focus on JavaScript! In our first meeting, we reviewed the basic syntax of the language and learned some rudimentary programming idioms.

Apr 10, 2024

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In recognition of National Library Week, we highlight a few of the experts and librarians who make up an incredible team of staff that keeps our libraries running, from book retrieval and customer service to research support.

Apr 3, 2023

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The Libraries' Research Data Services team collaborates with the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) to design a course on research data management, which includes a series of publicly-available animated videos.

Jun 13, 2022

In the media

Research Data Librarian Moacir P. de Sá Pereira appears on Dark & Stormy Nights, a podcast that discusses the first page - and only the first page! - of various novels, including Uncle Tom's Cabin, featured here.

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Working with Repetitive Data Tasks in R

Working with Large Datasets in R

Starting a Python Research Project in 2026

Introduction to Python Text Analysis with TDM Studio and ChatGPT

Getting Started with Research Data: Concepts, Tools, & Resources

Data Club Fall 2025 Schedule

Text Mine ProQuest with ChatGPT

Libraries Acquire Full-Text Corpus Data

Data Engineering in Python with Polars 1

SQL and NoSQL Databases in Python with Pandas

Git and Gitting Organized (Also, Text Editing)

Resource Spotlight: Newly-Purchased Dave Leip Election Datasets

Day One Exploratory Data Analysis with JavaScript

Resource Spotlight: University of Florida Election Lab

Day One Generating Jamstack Websites

Installing Observable Framework from Zero

Day One Map-Making with Leaflet

Day One Data with Observable

Day One JavaScript

National Library Week 2024: Q&A with CUL Staff

Everyone Uses Research Data | Exceptional Scholarship with Research Data, Part 1

Uncle Tom's Cabin (with Moacir P. de Sá Pereira): Dark & Stormy Nights Podcast

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Working with Repetitive Data Tasks in R

Working with Large Datasets in R

Starting a Python Research Project in 2026

Introduction to Python Text Analysis with TDM Studio and ChatGPT

Getting Started with Research Data: Concepts, Tools, & Resources

Data Club Fall 2025 Schedule

Text Mine ProQuest with ChatGPT

Libraries Acquire Full-Text Corpus Data

Data Engineering in Python with Polars 1

SQL and NoSQL Databases in Python with Pandas

Git and Gitting Organized (Also, Text Editing)

Resource Spotlight: Newly-Purchased Dave Leip Election Datasets

Day One Exploratory Data Analysis with JavaScript

Resource Spotlight: University of Florida Election Lab

Day One Generating Jamstack Websites

Installing Observable Framework from Zero

Day One Map-Making with Leaflet

Day One Data with Observable

Day One JavaScript

National Library Week 2024: Q&A with CUL Staff

Everyone Uses Research Data | Exceptional Scholarship with Research Data, Part 1

Uncle Tom's Cabin (with Moacir P. de Sá Pereira): Dark & Stormy Nights Podcast

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