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Celebrating Digital Scholarship Day tomorrow!

March 20, 2017

Please join us tomorrow for Digital Scholarship Day!

Time: Tuesday, March 21, (Showcase: 3 - 4:15 pm, Demo: 4:15 - 5:30 pm) 
Place: Pendleton Atrium
 
The following presentations that will take place are by members of the QAI community:

  • Megan Chen ‘17 - Turning a Photo of a Person into a Heatmap - (inspired by Angela Bahns, Psychology) 

  • Tavi Gonzalez (English) and Kat Liang ‘17 - Analyzing the reception of Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go

  • Hannah Murphy ‘19 and Alden Griffith (Environmental Studies) - Custom web apps for introductory data exploration and analysis 

  • Cynthia Chen '19 - The Princess of Cleves Visualizations

  • Kat Liang ‘17 - QAI Online Resources 

  • Cynthia Chen '19 and Stephanie Song '19 - Webscraping twitter and personality types (QR 260)

  • Hannah Murphy ‘19, Amy Johnson ‘17, Prianka Bhatia ‘17- Interactive graphical display of mental health data (QR 260)

For more information and details on the presentations, please click here.
Please join us tomorrow for Digital Scholarship Day, a celebration of innovative technologies and methods used by the Wellesley College community. 
Time: Tuesday, March 21, (Showcase: 3 - 4:15 pm, Demo: 4:15 - 5:30 pm) 
Place: Pendleton Atrium
 
The following presentations that will take place are by members of the QAI community:
  • Megan Chen ‘17 - Turning a Photo of a Person into a Heatmap - (inspired by Angela Bahns, Psychology) 
  • Tavi Gonzalez (English) and Kat Liang ‘17 - Analyzing the reception of Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go
  • Hannah Murphy ‘19 and Alden Griffith (Environmental Studies) - Custom web apps for introductory data exploration and analysis 
  • Cynthia Chen '19 - The Princess of Cleves Visualizations
  • Kat Liang ‘17 - QAI Online Resources 
  • Cynthia Chen '19 and Stephanie Song '19 - Webscraping twitter and personality types (QR 260)
  • Hannah Murphy ‘19, Amy Johnson ‘17, Prianka Bhatia ‘17- Interactive graphical display of mental health data (QR 260)
More information and presentations can be found here.

What's New at the QAI?

Blended Learning Initiative Website Launch

March 9, 2017

The Wellesley site for the Blended Learning Initative has launched and the Applied Data Analysis and Statistical Inference course can be found as one of the projects. The Initative combines an innovative use of technology with courses and projects in a variety of different disciplines. 


Digital Scholarship Day on Tuesday, March 21

March 9, 2017

Please also join us for Digital Scholarship Day, a celebration of innovative technologies and methods used by the Wellesley College community, including students of the QAI. The event will take place on Tuesday, March 21 in the Pendleton Atrium, with the Showcase starting from 3 to 4:15 pm and the Demo from 4:15 to 5:30 pm.

 


Panel on Quantitative Reasoning, Literature and Language

March 2, 2017

Please join us in attending a panel on Quantitative Reasoning, Language and Literature on Tuesday, March 7th at 5 pm in the Wellesley College Club. Joanna Milton '16 and Kat Liang '17, an alum and a current Intern of the QAI respectively, as well as Professor Casey Pattanayak, Director of the QAI, will be speaking.

 

 

 


Math Colloquium: Rating the Chess System by Professor Mark Glickman

February 19, 2017

On Tuesday, February 21st, Professor Mark E. Glickman of Harvard University will be presenting his analysis on chess rating systems at a Math Colloquium. The event starts at 3:45 pm with refreshments in SCI 362 and the lecture at 4:15 pm in SCI 396.


Upcoming Spring 2017 Events at the QAI

January 27, 2017

Three QAI related events have been scheduled to take place in the Spring 2017 semester. These are a Math Colloquium presented by Mark E. Glickman of the Department of Statistics at Harvard University, a QR Connections Panel on exploring the intersection of QR and Humanities, and the Digital Scholarship Day. More details will be updated accordingly on the Workshops and Events page.


QR260 Applied Data Analysis Final Project Poster Presentation

December 8, 2016

The Final Project Poster Session for QR 260: Applied Data Analysis took place on Wednesday, December 7 at the Science Center. Students from QR260 presented their research and analysis, using concepts they have learned in class, on applicable topics of their choosing. Please visit the QAI's Facebook page for more photos of the event.

 


QR260 Applied Data Analysis Final Project Poster Session

December 4, 2016

The Wellesley community is invited to attend the final project poster session for QR 260: Applied Data Analysis. It will take place from 9 am to 11:30am on Wednesday, December 7 in Science Center Faroll Focus.

 


Bias and Beyond: The 2016 Election

November 23, 2016

The "Bias and Beyond: The 2016 Election" teach-in held on November, 18 brought together the Wellesley community to discuss the effects and implications of bias in the 2016 election. Led by four faculty members, Cassandra Pattanayak, Eni Mustafaraj, Angela Bahns, and Nicholas Knouf, the event fostered an engaging dialogue going forward.

 

 

Full News Article on the November 18, Teach-In

Resources Sheet for the November, 18 Teach-In